"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
12/11/2014 at 09:35 • Filed to: None
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"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
12/11/2014 at 09:35 • Filed to: None | 24
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Quick story and I will get to it. My girlfriends dad, notorious car hoarder, had a 1930 Bentley 6 1/2 litre when he met her mom, and through when she was a kid. He actually daily drove the thing until the late eighties, because he is crazy like that, then sold it for peanuts. I pumped him for pictures last time I was up there and he couldn't find a one, but her mom vouched for it, and she is looking for some pics too. Anyhow, I was up drinking beer with him and he said there may be another late 20's-early 30's Bentley a few towns south in RUNNING AND DRIVING CONDITION for somewhere around 5-6 grand from some old codger who keeps it in his barn that he wants to buy so he can drive around in one again. He called me last night and said it is there. It isn't advertised, and isn't going anywhere. I am going to go check it out when I am up for Christmas. I am pretty excited to take a million pictures and just generally hang out with the thing. But if I do such a thing and make that kind of a barn find, can the interwebs handle it? I have no idea of the model, no idea of the condition besides it runs and moves under its own power, and is pretty solid. So it could look like his model A, but I don't think I care. And the other question, is almost any pre war Bentley that moves under it's own power worth 5 large? I would imagine so
shop-teacher
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:36 |
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Sounds pretty freaking cool!
Bandit
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:38 |
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whaaaa? you must buy it!
OPPOsaurus WRX
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:38 |
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id love to see it. u'll need to contain yourself when u see it. you dont want the old dude to catch onto your excitement and double the price
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505Turbeaux
> Bandit
12/11/2014 at 09:38 |
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nope, this is for him, and he likely will drive it every day he is not working.
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505Turbeaux
> OPPOsaurus WRX
12/11/2014 at 09:40 |
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ha oh I know, will be playing it cool for sure
Pixel
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:42 |
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A pre-war bentley in salvageable condition is worth $5K any day of the week. Hell solid roller model-A coupes & roadsters are selling for that much.
Sn210
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:42 |
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I'm so excited to hear how this turns out. Good luck! I hope you guys get it
JR1
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:47 |
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So if you do find the car and get pictures make a comment on here so I can drool please.
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505Turbeaux
> Pixel
12/11/2014 at 09:51 |
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he has quite a few A's too, about halfway down here you can see his A pickup http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/another-weeken…
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505Turbeaux
> JR1
12/11/2014 at 09:52 |
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ha ok will do
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Bandit
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:54 |
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Well somebody own it! Get it out into the public!
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505Turbeaux
> Bandit
12/11/2014 at 09:56 |
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I think that is why I am so excited, because I know he will drive it all over the place. Dude will probably load the damn thing full of lobsters to go make deliveries
Leon711
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 09:57 |
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Warm fuzzy british feelings here. World's fastest lorries according to Bugatti.
(I'm suffering those Gmail issues again, it might fix itself like before but who knows).
yamahog
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 10:10 |
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>lobster deliveries
You might be a New Englander if...
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505Turbeaux
> yamahog
12/11/2014 at 10:15 |
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truth!
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 10:24 |
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Any pre-war Bentley is going to be worth that in almost any shape. Running and capable of moving? Sounds like you've found yourself a potential treasure chest!
twochevrons
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 10:25 |
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This is amazing. Fingers crossed!
My great-uncle, a true British eccentric in many ways, owned a 4-1/2 Litre Bentley for many years, and took it on regular trips across Europe. Never saw the car, but the tales of his adventures are well-known in my family.
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505Turbeaux
> twochevrons
12/11/2014 at 10:28 |
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awesome, yeah kind of the same thing. I hope some pics emerge, but he isnt really one for technology
Racescort666
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 10:38 |
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I'm excited for you! Pre-war Bentleys are among my favorite cars. James Bond drove a 4-1/2 Litre with a supercharger and this has always struck me as incredibly classy yet somewhat deviant at the same time.
Your boy, BJR
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 10:53 |
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Bring it down the shore for The Race of Gentlemen (prewar car and tank shift motorcycle race on the beach). Show these rockabillies what a REAL race car can do, plus, we can do a "gentleman's racers past and present" photoshoot.
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505Turbeaux
> Your boy, BJR
12/11/2014 at 10:54 |
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nice!
RallyWrench
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 16:17 |
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505Turbeaux
> RallyWrench
12/11/2014 at 16:18 |
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lol yeah, that. We'll see what hides in the barn in a few weeks. Ill text you some previews when I am there as interwebs dont exist up there
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RallyWrench
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 16:25 |
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Please do, because holy shit. I had a customer, since passed away, who had a barn of treasures like that. I walked in not knowing what to expect, only to to be confronted with a no-shit Sindelfingen-bodied 1935 500k on flat tires, covered in dust, among many, many other cars including a 1908 Renault AX that I later worked on, V12 1931 Caddy and a 1922 Mercer.
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505Turbeaux
> RallyWrench
12/11/2014 at 16:39 |
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RallyWrench
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 17:02 |
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haha touche' That was about my reaction. I don't have pics, he was a reclusive guy & didn't want any taken. The collection has since been largely sold off since his death. There was a '48 Lincoln Conti convertible with a Mercury Flathead V8 in it, '53 MBZ 300D Adenaur full cabriolet (in black/red, looking for all the world like a Nazi staff car), '57 356A cab (gloriously patinated and still running), at least one Model T, and the crown jewel, a '78 Super Beetle 'vert with almost no miles ;). Apparently there were other cars stashed in garages all over town that I never saw. Pretty ridiculous.
This is the Renault. It had been sitting for decades, and we tore it down & got her running properly. I did the last inspection & service before she went to auction. Just a wonderful little car. This pic was shot on the road in front of the barn.
http://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1908-r…
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505Turbeaux
> RallyWrench
12/11/2014 at 17:05 |
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that Renault is spectacular. I don't want to talk about 300 Adenaurs, I was supposed to inherit one but it got turned into a nice 48' Egg Harbor I also didn't inherit
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RallyWrench
> 505Turbeaux
12/11/2014 at 17:11 |
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Balls. I don't care for Adenaurs much, that car was no fun to work on. We did the mechanicals on it too. The SC coupes do look nice though.
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505Turbeaux
> RallyWrench
12/11/2014 at 17:16 |
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lol I agree with you. I helped restore it in the expectation that it was mine, but they are pigs to drive. Who knows what I would have flipped it for. I did get a sweet mkVIII out of it though. Hahaha worth practically nothing