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Bentley Speed Six 1930 Weymann fixed head coupé Daimler Double-Six 1932 close-coupled 4-door sports saloon for Anna Neagle. J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited was an English firm of bespoke coachbuilders specialising in sporting bodies founded in 1918 as a new enterprise by a Croydon firm of builders and joiners of the same name.
Bentley: 8 Litre Gurney Nutting Sports Tourer YF5011 Michael Kadoorie: 2020 None 2021 [16] 1938: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Autobahn Kurier 408336 Arturo & Deborah Keller 2022 [17] 1932 Duesenberg Model J Figoni Sports Torpedo 2509 Lee R. Anderson Sr. 2023 [18] 1937: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Special Roadster 154075 [19] Jim Patterson Patterson Collection ...
The Bentley 8 Litre was a large inline 6-cylinder super-luxury car made in various configurations by Bentley Motors Limited at Cricklewood, London. Announced 15 September 1930, it was also the last completely new model by Bentley before the company's financial collapse and forced sale to Rolls-Royce Limited.
The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 [5] as a more sporting version of the Bentley 6½ Litre. [12] With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, [5] [8] [11] a high-performance camshaft, [14] and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced 180 hp (130 kW) at 3500 rpm.
Research efforts by Bruce and Jolene McCaw of Medina, Washington, who bought the Gurney Nutting-built "Blue Train Special", have further exposed and widely publicised the mistake. The original H. J. Mulliner Blue Train Bentley bodywork was also reconstructed, and both cars have been fully restored.
Bentley 8-litre coupé, coachwork by J Gurney Nutting; Channel 4 short biography of Bentley; on YouTube; Jay Leno explains and demonstrates W. O.'s racing Lagonda V12; Jay Leno shows his 8-litre Bentley saloon
Barnato drove an H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon in the race; the streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by Gurney Nutting which he took delivery of on 21 May 1930 also became known as the Blue Train Bentley and is regularly mistaken for or erroneously referred to as being the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it ...
The H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon he drove during the race, as well as a streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupe" by Gurney Nutting delivered to him on 21 May 1930 became known as the Blue Train Bentleys. The "Sportsman Coupe" has been erroneously referred to as being the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in ...