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Bentleybob 42: Bentley Estoril by Park Ward
« on: April 06, 2012, 07:03:38 AM »
Tell me all about it for a point: make, type, by whom etcetera.

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 05:23:17 AM »
Up?

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2012, 05:32:53 AM »
And so to the pros...

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2012, 05:38:37 AM »
Bentley by Pinin Farina?

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2012, 05:39:04 AM »
is it a Bentley, bob?!
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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 05:43:51 AM »
Hooper-bodied Bentley?

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2012, 05:46:31 AM »
..or maybe Abbott?

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2012, 06:12:59 AM »
Bentley with a Park Ward body?

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2012, 08:10:19 AM »
I have it as the Bentley Estoril by Park Ward, 1949. One of the styling prototypes for the proposed replacement for the Mk VI.

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Re: Bentleybob 42
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2012, 12:52:35 PM »
Yep, 7-B-VII, the only built Bentley Estoril Saloon by Park Ward. It was far too heavy at 40 1/2 cwts, and was not so much a replacement prototype for the Mark VI as an experiment of the so called 'New Look' of slabsided cars. It also had the original concept of the traditional radiator dispensed with. Though comfortable, and used by company VIPS until 1951, it was slow and cumbersome, and never a serious alternative for anything, and so it was scrapped as early as 1951. Barrett gets the point as the most complete answer, of course.