8 litre Bentley
Registration Number: NLH 43 ~ Chassis No: YR5094 ~ Engine number: YR5094

History
This magnificent 8-litre is one of only 100 cars produced by W.O. Bentley of which only approximately 80 survive.

The car was originally produced as a Thrupp and Maberly limousine and sent directly to Singapore where it was used by a Chinese Mau owner, who used it to visit the races with his girlfriends (the car became known as the Harem Saloon). It was walled up in a mine during the War and after it finished was sent to England in the late 40s. The new owner, a Peter Quinn, gave the car its first registeration number NLH 43 which the car retains today. He removed the original body but kept the original bonnet and scuttle from the car. The next owner, a Peter Morley shortened the chassis to 10' 10" and raced the car very successfully. It was then sold to a farmer, Mr Posnett, who took the car to pieces and re-lengthened her to 12' where the car sat until 2002. The car was then bought by the present owner John Cobbing in 2002 who undertook the rebuild and restoration and re-bodied it as a gentleman’s tourer.