1929 Bentley Speed Six ‘Old No. One’
Concours of Elegance, Hampton Court, September 2019

The 69th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, August 2019.

Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 2014

Pebble Beach, 2009

Vintage Bentley on the track of Le Mans 2009. Sketch by Jean Marie Guivarc'h.

This photograph was taken at Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2007.

These photographs were taken at the Brooklands 100th Anniversary in June 2007.

Vintage Bentleys celebrate Brooklands Track Centenary on June 15th 2007.

Read article here.

Photograph was taken in June 2007 at Rousham House and Gardens during 2007 Bentley Drivers Club concours.

Old No. 1 receiving a first in class award at the Pebble Beach Concours.

The expression "Old Number One" is a famous name in history of a Vintage Bentley racing car. It is justifiably applied to the car (Chassis No. LB2332) which in a succession of forms raced at Le Mans between 1929 and 1932 when it crashed. It is the "authentic" "Old Number One".

Read "The Case of the Bentley Old Number One"
HUBBARD vs. MIDDLEBRIDGE SCIMITAR LIMITED
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
Royal Courts of Justice, London.
No. 90/MJ/2474 - 27th July 1990

Two times Le Mans winner and Brooklands race car, probably the most successful race car of its time notching up 12 various race results. This wonderful project was two years of painstaking research and restoration, the job brief being to make the car just as it was the day it crashed at Brooklands.

Interesting challenges where the long range leaded steel fuel tanks, allowing the car to complete the 500 miles races at Brooklands without pit stopping. The Bentley Draper hydraulic shock absorbers, which due to their poor oil seals where topped up from a gravity tank under the bonnet. The cut down radiator that had every race resulted engraved onto its shell and the recreation of the beautiful Gurney Nutting two seater body work. This painstaking restoration is a fine example of our determination to make the cars correct, to every rivet head, wood screw and type of finishing of the components.

LB2332 advert in 1963 Motor sport

Bentley 1929 MT 3464
Old photo in my collection taken in I believe CT years ago. Photo says Tunick owned car at time.

Old Number One during 1932 Indianapolis 500 Race. Car crashed during the race killing the driver, Clive Dunfee.

"It is stated above that the carwas at the Indianapolis 500 and Clive Dunfee was killed. He was killed in the car at Brooklands in the 500mile race when he lost control and the car went over the banking" — Kevin Cochrane, Oct 7, 2010

"This is an original letter detailing the engine breakdown report following the success at Le Mans in 1929. Much of it detailing the preparation of the works cars for the 1929 Le Mans. They are original and include internal memos detailing planning and preparation for the race. I also have the original hand-written post race engine reports wriiten by Nobby Clark."

Photo no. 1 is from Motor Sport magazine, 1957.

Accompanying text reads: "Woolf Barnato's and Jack Dunfee's "Old No. 1" Speed Six Bentley thundering up the Finishing straight during the 1930 B.A.R.C. Six Hours' Endurance Race. It won the race at an average speed of 75.88 m.p.h."

(It should be "...1929 B.A.R.C. Six Hours' Endurance Race", not '1930' — VintageBentleys.org)