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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
Chassis No. SL3073
Engine No. SL3073
Registration No. YU 3243
March 31, 2011

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater

Source: Gooding & Company
Posted: Apr 18, 2016

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2010

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater

Source: Fine Cars
Posted: Apr 18, 2016

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May 31, 2009

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
Los Angeles, June 2009

Source: Flickr, posted by user 'dmentd'
Posted: Nov 29, 2010

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2007

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
 

Source: Flickr, posted by users 'carlover' & 'MR38'
Posted: Nov 29, 2010

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2006
In USA in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member

Posted: Jan 1, 0001

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April 30, 1949

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
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.

Source: Michael Pancheri (Former owner)
Posted: Jul 16, 2010

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1946

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
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.

Source: Michael Pancheri (Former owner)
Posted: Nov 6, 2018

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

Source: Michael Pancheri (Former owner)
Posted: Nov 5, 2018

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"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."

Source: Joel Laub
Posted: Nov 30, 2018

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
The car has since been sold. — Jul 1, 2011

Source: Rolls and Bentley
Posted: Jun 28, 2011

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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre 4-seater
This 4½ Bentley was owned by Mannin as of 1929. Seen here at Ewelme Down.

Source: From article, Two Years with Two Bentleys by Mannin published in Motor Sport, November 1929
Posted: Mar 14, 2008

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Earliest Record Of Historical Facts & Information

Chassis No. SL3073
Engine No. SL3073
Registration No. YU 3243
Date of Delivery: 31 Oct 1927
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
First Owner: MOORE T G
More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1431 with a Sports 4-seater; Weymann fabric / paint to match; 11/1927. Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1431. Rebuilt on ch. 995. Eng SE 1 fitted. 1934. Eng now 3027 ex RN 3027, D box."

Mar 1, 2007

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