"This car was owned by Michael Hammer from Southern California. We were in a car show in Corona Del Mar around 2005 together. I believe he sold it after."

Found on Gooding & Company website

The car has since been sold. — Jul 1, 2011

Scottsdale Auction 2011
1927 Bentley 3 – 4½ Litre "Gibbs Pancheri Special"
Estimate: $500,000 - $700,000

Chassis: 995
Engine: RN 3027
Reg. No. YU 3243

Car Highlights
- Renowned Race Winner
- Extensively Modified for Performance
- Highly Documented and Revered History
- Recent Expert Restoration
- "The World’s Fastest Unblown 4 1/2 Litre Bentley"

Technical Specs
- 4,398 CC SOHC Inline 4-Cylinder Engine
- Dual SU H8 Carburetors
- Estimated 200 BHP
- 4-Speed Manual Constant Mesh Gearbox
- 4-Wheel Hydraulic Drum Brakes
- Front Beam-Axle Suspension with Leaf Springs
- Rear Beam-Axle Suspension with Outrigged Leaf Springs

Found on Fine Cars website

As of 12/16/2010
1927 Bentley 3-4½ Litre "Gibbs Pancheri Special"
To be sold at the Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auction on January 21 and 22, 2010 (? typo).

The car has since been sold. — Jul 1, 2011

1927 4½ Litre
BR Green Interior & Exterior. Ready to Race in All Vintage Events Owned 42 years by Gibbs-Pancheri, past Exec Dir Bentley Drivers Club.

Raced extensively in the 50's, 60's & 70's in Malaysia, Singapore and England. Full FiA competition papers and FIVA documents. Throughout most of the 50's and 60's, YU3243 was virtually unbeaten in Vintage and PVT competition and in the VSCC and BDC events.

Excellent Condition
Price Upon Request

Los Angeles, June 2009

This photograph was probably taken at the first Bentley Drivers Club meeting which the car attended under my father, Paul Gibbs Pancheri's ownership. The child on the bonnet is me, just a month short of my 2nd birthday, The lady beside the car is my mother, and she is talking to the great Alick Pitts who was the owner of the 'practice' Birkin/Dorothy Padgett team blower, i.e the 5th car in the stable. (Pitts later became one of the BMC works rally drivers, driving their famous Mini Coopers.) In the background, the elderly couple are my grandparents, Celestino and Florence Pancheri.

I will also try to find some early photographs of the car in Singapore and Malaya, as well as more recent ones before I sold her (in 1995), before she was made into some kind of Le Mans replica. People seem to think all Bentleys were equipped with big racing gauges and cumbersome 'go-slow' heavy fuel tanks, and painted green! The strange registration numbers SC 5583 and SB 65 are her registrations in Singapore and then Malaya, but she is still the same car.

My father was Paul Gibbs Pancheri, and he was the Executive Director of the Bentley Drivers Club from 1973 to 1984.

Do you happen to know where the car is now? I can't find any record of her in the Bentley Drivers Club lists. I would be most interested to know who has her now.

"This car was built in 1927, purchased by my father in 1946 and shipped to Singapore where my father was employed.

She was raced and hill-climbed in Singapore and used as his every day car, taking me to school and back when I was very young.

In 1952 she was rebuilt on a 1925 3 litre chassis (995) and fitted with an external exhaust which was cooler for the engine in a very hot tropical climate, and cooler for my mother in the passenger seat.

My father continued to race her in Malaya and Singapore, also in UK when on leave. In 1960 she was rebuilt again on and fitted with a a lighter, lower aluminium body and 25 gallon fuel tank. She was raced by my father until 1962 when he and my mother retired from Asia.

She was our family every day car and in 1968 I was given a half-share as my 21st birthday present. I first raced her in April 1969 but later that year suffered a broken piston ring, which led to me undertaking another full rebuild which was completed in 1972. I raced her 1973 to 1975, a further rebuild followed in 1987 by which time I had 3 young children. She was raced by Donald Day until she was sold in 1995.

An attempt has been made to turn her into yet another 4½ litre 'Le Mans' replica, but it was a hopeless effort as she was too short and too low. Furthermore she was fitted with a heavy steel fuel tank instead of the light aluminium one, and trendy 'racing' gauges instead of the beautiful original ones, and in my view totally missing the point of her creation by my father. However, I hope she is being loved and enjoyed as much as she was in my ownership, and if the present owner needs any information he is welcome to contact me."

This 4½ Bentley was owned by Mannin as of 1929. Seen here at Ewelme Down.