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Title: Expensive car...
Post by: Furball on July 24, 2004, 05:00:57 AM

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Bentley in Record £2.8M Sale

By PA News Reporter


A historic Bentley sports car sold for a world record £2.8 million at auction today.

The 1930 Bentley Speed Six, described as an “exceptional racing Titan”, won the Double Twelve race and came second in the Le Mans 24-hour contest that year.

The car went under the hammer at a Christie’s auction in France to coincide with the Le Mans Classic event this weekend.

A private buyer, who was not named, bought the Bentley for £2,784,741 (4,188,250 euros).

It was the highest price yet paid at auction for a Bentley, Christie’s said.

The car was clocked at 112mph on the finishing straight during its victorious Double Twelve-Hour race at the Brooklands track near Weybridge, Surrey, in 1930.

Christie’s said the Bentley was regarded as “the finest and most important” surviving example of its kind.  

Title: Expensive car...
Post by: Nilsen on July 24, 2004, 05:42:45 AM

but can you load it up with food, babies and holiday luggage?

mmm...bentleys :)

Title: Expensive car...
Post by: Holden McGroin on July 24, 2004, 09:10:23 AM

I would have bid on it... but I decided to pass... no cup holder.