2004 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT - HISTORICS AUCTIONEERS Saturday 21st September 2019 Mercedes Benz World Weybridge, Surrey

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Saturday 21st September 2019

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Weybridge, Surrey

2004 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

Registration No: WA04 DGV

Chassis No: SCBCE63W14C021254

Engine No: 002999

Estimate: £13,000 - £17,000

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in 2003, the first generation Continental GT differed from previous incarnations due to it no longer being a coach-built car. However, as a result, the price at launch was significantly less than the Continental R (approximately half) which exposed the car to a much wider customer. Despite the lower price, however, the new GT was still roundly well received with celebrities, sports personalities alike buying in droves due to the six-litre, twin-turbocharged W12 engine with 552bhp coupled to opulent surroundings and an ultra-comfortable ride. After all, this was designed to be a mile crunching continent cruiser and with that huge W12 engine coupled to a smooth six-speed automatic box distributed by the Quattro four-wheel-drive system, it was equally at home in Mayfair as it was on the Autobahn where it was capable of an astonishing 196mph and a 0-60 time of just 4.7 seconds. The Continental offered the most comfortable way of reaching supercar speeds and, still to this day, is a fabulously capable GT.

This example of an early GT is presented in a rare colour combination of Diamond Black with Cinnamon hide. This car boasts massage and heated front seats with electric memory, Xenon headlights, satellite navigation (with European discs) and electric folding mirrors. Offered with a stamped service history booklet, the vendor describes the history as very good indeed. This example boasts the original Bentley telephone and upgraded alloy wheels. Accompanying the car is an MoT test certificate valid until May 2020. Continental GT's are an incredible value for money and combine opulence with speed like no other, this example is without a doubt very well priced and could represent fabulous value for money.

SOURCE: https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2019-09-21/cars/ref-17-2004-bentley-continental-gt/

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1937 ALVIS 3.5 Litre CONTINENTAL TOURER - SILVERSTONE AUCTIONS The Heythrop Classic Car Sale Heythrop Park, Enstone, Chipping Norton, OX7 5UF SATURDAY 11th MAY 2019

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1937 ALVIS 3.5 Litre CONTINENTAL TOURER

Coachwork: Alwil Bodies Ltd

Registration: FEV 355

Chassis Number: 14307

Engine Number: 14048

Number of cylinders: 6

CC: 3500

Year of Manufacture: 1937

RHD/LHD: Right Hand Drive

Estimate (£): 50,000 - 60,000

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• Created in 1937 with bespoke aluminium coachwork and fitted with a 3.5-litre 'Speed 25' engine
• Offered directly from the collection of Alan Wildin, founder of Alwil Bodies Ltd
• The unique aluminium body was painstakingly built to the design by Mr Wildin himself
• Completed in 1994 the conversion and restoration is detailed in an accompanying illustrated book
• Presenting very well today the car is regretfully offered for sale due to our vendor's advancing years.

Pre-war development of the six-cylinder Alvis culminated in the announcement of two new models for 1937: the 4.3-litre and the 3.5-litre Speed Twenty Five, both powered by new seven-bearing, overhead-valve engines. The cruciform-braced chassis were similar and embodied the kind of advanced thinking long associated with the marque: independent front suspension and a four-speed, all-synchromesh gearbox - introduced on the preceding Speed Twenty - were retained, with the additional refinements of driver-controlled Luvax hydraulic dampers and servo-assisted brakes. On a test with Autocar, the Speed Twenty Five demonstrated remarkable top-gear flexibility combined with a maximum speed of 95mph, and was found to possess qualities of, "quiet running and general refinement in a striking degree." Sturdily-built and endowed with a generous wheelbase, the Alvis six attracted some of the finest examples of the pre-war coachbuilders' art, although the Speed Twenty Five's initial chassis-only price of £775 meant that ownership was necessarily confined to wealthy connoisseurs. 

This unique 3.5-litre Alvis is the creation of our vendor Alan Wildin, a qualified professional coachbuilder, who, in 1982, established his highly regarded coachbuilding company, Alwil Bodies Ltd. Alan's dream was to design and build his own pre-war car, and the story of the restoration and construction of this 'Continental Tourer' is recorded in an accompanying illustrated book. 'FEV 355' is a 4.3-Litre model currently fitted with the engine from an Alvis Speed Twenty Five.

The project began in the early 1990s, commencing with a strip down to the rolling chassis, which was then clothed in a Drophead Coupé body of Alan's own design. Alan's criteria for the body included a lengthy bonnet, no visible spare wheel, wide doors, fold-flat windscreen, fold-flat convertible hood, full tonneau cover, no side windows, and front wings running continuously through to the rear wings via full-length running boards. It was intended that the overall design would be in keeping with that of the 1930s period, and one that Alvis would have approved of. 

To this end, the original bonnet was retained, whilst the aluminium alloy body (its panels welded together using oxyacetylene) was mounted on a framework of English Ash. One of Alan's aims was that the body should be free of any projections, and the incorporation of flashing indicators within the pre-war Lucas rear lights enabled him to avoid having to use semaphore trafficators. Few would deny that the overall result is most pleasing and a credit to its creator. 

On 27th April 1995, 'FEV 355' passed the MOT test, and the following day – taxed and insured – was taken out for its first shakedown run. Alan's observations are recorded in the aforementioned book: "All was well, the clutch operated, the gears were all there, the brakes proved adequate, the water temperature held at 76 degrees, the oil pressure read 40psi, the back axle made no strange noises, the body remained in place, and no doors fell off."

Since then, 'FEV' has been campaigned extensively by the Wildin family, attending Alvis Club and other events at venues including Brooklands and Prescott. Described by our private vendor as in 'generally excellent condition', this unique and most stylish soft-top Alvis is offered with sundry restoration bills, an old-style logbook, and a V5c registration certificate. Regretfully offered to auction due to advancing years and long term residence in Spain, our vendor is now offering the pride of his collection to the next custodian.

SOURCE: http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/alvis-alwil-continetal-tourer

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2010 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC SPEED SERIES 51 - H&H AUCTIONEERS Classic Car Sale The Pavilion Gardens, St John's Road Buxton Derbyshire SK17 6BE Wednesday 10th April 2019

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Wednesday 10th April 2019

2010 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC 

SPEED SERIES 51

Registration No: DK10 FFA

Chassis No: SCBDJ23WXBC067123

MOT: February 2020

- Named after the year that Bentley established its own Styling Department, the Series 51 cars featured bespoke interiors/exteriors

- Originally serviced by Bentley's Press & Special Car Dept and later belonged to Emile Heskey

- 3 former keepers, 36,000 miles from new, among the rarest GTC variants, MOT'd till Feb 2020, carbon ceramic brake upgrade

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Built to celebrate the founding of Bentley's in-house Styling Department under John Polwhele Blatchley during 1951, the Series 51 versions of the Continental GT and GTC models featured bespoke exterior and interior treatments which often harked back to the marque's former Motor Show exhibits. They also often incorporated colour combinations and stylistic flourishes suggested by Bentley's own designers (rather than their customers). Interiors were typically trimmed in two-tone leather with a third colour being used as an accent. Needless to say, the Series 51 variants were prodigiously expensive when new and also decidedly rare.

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1961 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL CONVERTIBLE - SILVERSTONE AUCTIONS THE AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL SALE NEC Birmingham, West Midlands Saturday 12th January 2019

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1961 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL CONVERTIBLE

Registration: JRR 8V

Chassis Number: 1Y86H417786

Engine Number: Not Specified

Number of cylinders: 8

CC: 7500

Year of Manufacture: 1961

RHD/LHD: Left Hand Drive

Estimate (£): 18,000 - 22,000

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• From the first year of a new design direction. Lincolns raised the bar for US luxury vehicles
• One of only 2,857 in 1961. H-Code 430cid V8. Dual-range factory 3-speed automatic transmission
• Designed for ease of passenger entry - rear-hinged 'suicide doors' and flat windscreen
• From a private collection and showing just over 49,000 miles
• Imported from Houston, Texas in 2015 and now UK registered

Lincoln boldly switched to unitary construction for their 1958 models, but the result was somewhat underwhelming. The biggest Lincolns to date and the largest unibody cars ever, they came across as perpendicularly sculpted, competitive at first but decidedly dated by 1960. Determined to put things right, Ford's Vice-President of Styling, George Walker, had chief stylist Elwood Engel round up a team that eventually included John Najjar, Bob Thomas, Joe Oros, John Orff, and Colin Neale. Engel told his stylists, "I want a clean car - no garbage."

A clean car is what he got. Created around a Thunderbird cowl, Robert McNamara, Ford General Manager, who soon became company president, suggested it become a four-door Lincoln Continental and it went into production in November 1960. The Industrial Design Institute awarded it a coveted Bronze Medal, rare for an automobile. The new Continental was designed for ease of passenger entry with the lack of a wrap-around windscreen and use of rear-hinged "suicide" rear doors making passenger ingress and egress considerably easier. Novel for the time was a convertible saloon body style, the first since the Frazer Manhattan of 1951. Lincoln, in an understated manner, called it simply the Continental Four-Door Convertible.

This, very early, 1961 Lincoln Continental Convertible is showing just over 49,000 miles and was purchased by our private vendor in Texas during 2015. The car was subsequently imported to the UK and is now registered here. Having resided in our vendor's private collection these past few years, the time has now come for someone else to enjoy a car that raised the bar on luxury vehicle design in the US in the early '60s. Offered at a sensible estimate, this example will certainly turn heads and looks to offer boatloads of fun along the way.

SOURCE: http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1961-lincoln-continental-convertible

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