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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
Chassis No. 1037
Engine No. 1047
Registration No. XY 1464
July 31, 2013

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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
"Photographed at the BDC Silverstone meeting, 10th August 2013. Listed on DVLA as first registered 24th April 1925."

Source: John Skidmore, Scholz Raimar
Posted: Oct 25, 2014

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May 31, 2013

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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
BDC Concours, 29 June 2013

Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Jul 7, 2014

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January 31, 2010

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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
This 3 Litre Speed Model is an unusually original. Supplied by the factory in 1925 and clothed by Vandan Plas with an open four-seater body, the body that it retains to this day. Factory service records show careful and regular maintenance in its early years, the grand mileage of 47,890 recorded by 1937. The history file that accompanies this Bentley includes a buff log book, service invoicing and notes from the 1940s and 1950s as well as a tax disk from 1929! With early examples of the 3 Litre model approaching their 90th birthday, 1037 represents a rare opportunity to secure an original, unmolested example of one of the most important and recognisable of all pre-war cars.

Source: Michael Muellmann
Posted: Feb 27, 2010

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2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member

Posted: Jan 1, 0001

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1988

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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
"Dear Robert, I've found some old photos of 3 litre chassis 1037 that I took at the Midland Motor Museum near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, (sadly closed now, I believe). This would have been approximately 1988-1989. I was very young! (I was little more than a schoolboy when I took these pictures with a kids plastic camera.) The 4.5 just in shot on one picture is Reg. GC 3337."

Source: Chris Matthew-Powell
Posted: Feb 15, 2017

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1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
1925 Bentley 3 Litre SP 4-seater
Found on Will Stone Historic Cars website on May 29, 2018

Source: Will Stone Historic Cars
Posted: May 29, 2018

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Earliest Record Of Historical Facts & Information

Chassis No. 1037
Engine No. 1047
Registration No. XY 1464
Date of Delivery: 31 Mar 1925
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: SP
First Owner: (RAVEN A G)
More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1134 with a standard 4-seater Sports; blue and black; 4/1925. Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1134. For sale 1989 - original body, three owners from new." The registration no. is wrongly stated as XV 1464 in Stanley Sedgwick's and Michael Hay's books, respectively All the Pre-War Bentleys and Bentley: The Vintage Years

Mar 1, 2007

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