1935 Petersen Blower Bentley

1935 Petersen Blower Bentley

Chassis Number:  

Registration number: UR645

Pefect condition & less then 20k miles covered by its single onwer since build. This is Bob Petersen at his finest. Jump the wait time & buy this one? It has been maintained without regards to cost & is in beautiful order throughout sharing garage space with a mint Derby Bentley.

MODIFIED 4.5 LITRE RTYPE ENGINE MKV1 GEAR BOX, PETERSEN SUPERCHARGER, 3.08 RATIO REAR AXLE, LE MANS 4 SEATER SPORTS BODY

Chassis no B118EF Reg No DGF 417 1935 3.5 litre Derby Bentley was the 1935/6

Olympia show car for Hooper & Co displaying a coupe-cabriolet body.

In October 1936 the chassis was re-bodied by Hooper as a 4 door saloon for Captain Frederick Charles Ulick Vernon-Wentworth RN CB JP High Sheriff of Suffolk.

He also owned 2 more Derby Bentleys and died in 1947 leaving effects to the sum of £495,627. 17 shillings and 8 pence.

The next traceable owner is in the 1970s and theyhad the car until 2005 when it was sold at auction and onto Bob Petersen to build the car as is today for the present owner.

The car was completed at the end of 2009 and reregistered UR6459 (a1930 Welwyn Herts no, very close to the Birkin Blower race cars)

Its first tour was to New Zealand in 2010 taking in both North and South islands, over 3,500 miles.

2011 short UK tours and a 2012 stay in the South of France.

2013 shipped to Long Beach California for the BDC NW USA and Canada Tour finishing in Seattle and visiting Bonneville salt flats, again over 3,000 miles.

Continental and UK trips. Shipped to Australia starting in Melbourne and finishing in Port Douglas

2016 to Monaco for the historic GP and to Brescia for the Mille -Miglia.

2017 BDC South Eastern USA tour from New Orleans to Baltimore, including taking tea at the British Embassy in Washington DC.

The car has also attended the Goodwood revival and Kop Hill where it won Best in Show in 2017.

Latterly there have been shorter continental and UK trips

To include Black Leather Bentley motif bags and an above fuel tank luggage rack.

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