This car - updated Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. YU 7751 (Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - April 2016)
2015 (?)
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Source:
YouTube
Posted: Apr 26, 2016
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Source:
A BDC member
Posted: Dec 09, 2006
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Car was owned by George Vernon Russell from 1974-1978.
Source:
California Classics: Vol. II
by John C. Meyer, III, 1978
Updated: Apr 30, 2007
Posted: Apr 23, 2007
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Photograph was taken
for program for Ambassador Invitational
le Cercle Concours d'Elegance-Visionaries
Source:
Ambassador Invitational le Cercle Concours
d'Elegance-Visionaries program, May
15, 1977
Posted: Dec 09, 2006
1976
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Silverado Meet
1976
"George Russell's Vanden Plas
tourer on Vintage Bentley chassis
ST3009, judged first in Bentley class."
— From the article '1976 Silverado
Winners', Photographs of the Meet
by Bill Brownfield (Calif.)
Source:
The Flying Lady, September 1976
Posted: Jul 18, 2013
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Car is shown at Peacock
Gap during a Concours d'Elegance.
Source:
Concours d'Elegance by Joseph
H. Wherry, 1969
Posted: May 03, 2007
EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
Chassis No.
ST3009
Engine No.
ST3010
Registration
No.
YU 7751
Date of Delivery:
Nov 1927
Type of Body:
4-seater
Coachbuilder:
Vanden Plas
Type of Car:
No
info
First Owner:
MAYNARD Mrs
More Info:
According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder
records, this car was originally fitted
with Body No. 1417 with a standard 3-door,
4-seater Sports; Weymann fabric / green
/ black; 1:9/1927.
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"Vanden Plas body no. 1417. "1/32
b/axle rebuilt - adjusted to give ˝mm
clearances as backlash when racing with
spiral bevel."? Reg YU 7751 or YU 775."
