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Bentley Blue Train By Racing Green

1953 · 800 miles · Blue

£470,000

Listed today at Vintage & Prestige, Northampton. Last checked today.

Key facts

Year: 1953
Registration: OOF 936
Mileage: 800 miles
Drive: RWD
Body: Coupe
Colour: Blue
Doors: 2
Generation: Coachbuilt recreation on 1953 Bentley R-Type donor chassis

About this car

This is a Blue Train by Racing Green, a Bentley built in the spirit of the one-off Gurney Nutting Speed Six coupe. That car is tied to Woolf Barnato's famous race against the Calais-Méditerranée Express, later immortalised in a Terence Cuneo painting. The page gives the year as 1953 and the chassis number as B18UM, and the car is UK-registered as OOF936.

The dealer says it has covered only about 800 miles since it was built, which is very low for a car of this type. It is described as running well and is at the dealer's Northampton showroom. The listing carries an "Accepted" marker beside the price, which suggests an offer has been taken, and the dealer states the price will not be discounted. The page gives no engine, gearbox or colour details.

Written by Vertar from Vintage & Prestige’s listing. Check the details with the dealer before you buy.

Performance

The maker’s official figures for this model, not measurements of this car (Coachbuilt Blue Train-style recreation by Racing Green (UK) on a 1950s Bentley donor; Bentley published no figures for this car and none from the builder can be confirmed, so performance figures are null.).

Engine position: Front-engined
Induction: Naturally aspirated