Talk:Bentley 3.5 Litre

Help requested with Identification

I think this might be a wiki-useful image, and I think it must be a Bentley 3½-litre from the late 1930s. But I'm not 100% sure. Is anyone able to confirm or correct my belief please? And thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 19:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

It's a Park Ward bodied 3 1/2 litre, chassis number B120FB, delivered new to a John C Bosley in December 1935. Glachlan (talk) 11:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations to both of you! Eddaido (talk) 11:17, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Noted. Thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:01, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

My father owned this car from 1976 through the early-mid '90's, near Detroit, Michigan, USA. It was two-tone brown, purchased from an Englishman who smoked handroll cigarettes and had shipped it to the US and drove it from the East Coast to Detroit. Selling price was $5500, it drove well and looked good excepting a giant paint chip behind the left rear door, where a wind gust had caused the open door to bash into the fender. It had been restored at least once years before. I have many photos of the car and learned to drive in it. Dad replaced the front leaf springs, did some restoration to the woodframe sunroof, but did little else with it, and sold it to a man who moved it to Florida. It went through another restoration, this one apparently extensive, and was painted as seen but given ghastly whitewall tires. It was sold again, made it's way back to England, and lost the whitewalls. Invisiblemen (talk) 04:31, 22 June 2012 (UTC)Invisiblemen

Thanks for the detailed and interesting biographical note on (what used to be) your father's car. I'm glad the tires/tyres are back to black, and I hope the odour of handrolling tobacco didn't linger on too much. I find the green color happily eye catching without being aggressive or distracitng. As they say in Germany, green is the color of hope (Grün bedeutet Hoffnung), though I know shades of brown were popular on big cars in the mid to late 1930s - at least here in England. I don't think I ever saw anything that elegant on the roads (or anyuwhere else) when I stayed at the edge of Ann Arbour a couple of times in the 1990s (but as far as I remember there was lots of snow around: I think it was maybe winter). Success Charles01 (talk) 05:47, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

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