What a ghastly paint job. Let's hope it's been fixed since then.
Originally Posted By Ian Wegg
Originally Posted By brownbaker
The history of the Bentley is on the Vintage Bentley Site.
Registration number TU 5987 .very interesting


For convenience, link here: www.vintagebentleys.org/carpages/tu5987

I posted here about it a few years ago but that thread has been scuppered by the Photobox debacle so here it is reconstructed...



Originally Posted By pandy

£475 for an old Bentley would probably have seemed quite a decent sale price for the early 60's.


Indeed! The car itself came up for sale at Fiskens in 2010 and I calculated back then that £475 in 1961 equated to £7882, quite a decent price for a second-hand car. Fiskens sold it for £550,000 so nevertheless a good investment, and I reckon it would get a fair bit more today.

The Fast Lady is worth getting on DVD. It contains a dream sequence in which Stanley Baxter races the Bentley at Silverstone against Graham Hill and John Surtees, with Raymond Baxter commentating - a scene which they used to cut for the TV showings (remember when TV used to show films like this?!)




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