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Old 11 Nov 2005, 07:14 (Ref:1457855)   #1
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Does anyone know what happened to those achingly beautiful Bentleys from the early 2000's?
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 07:59 (Ref:1457873)   #2
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Unfortunately they're probably sat in a Bentley factory somewhere. Shame. Beautiful cars.....shame nothing became of that rumour about Taisan wanting to run them.
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 09:13 (Ref:1457905)   #3
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At least one is with a collector - another has run infrequently as a two seater for Bentley customer hospitality sessions (Guy Smith was out on one of those about 3 weeks ago)
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 11:37 (Ref:1458009)   #4
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Hmmm, how do I get myself invited to a customer hospitality thing without having to buy a pile of new Bentleys??
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 11:53 (Ref:1458026)   #5
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The collector is in the US...

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Old 11 Nov 2005, 13:44 (Ref:1458110)   #6
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Did RTN build there own monocoque for the Bentleys or were the constructed by ouside contractors like the R8. (Dallara)
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 14:03 (Ref:1458134)   #7
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RTN build the chassis by themselves.
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 14:08 (Ref:1458139)   #8
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At least one is with a collector - another has run infrequently as a two seater for Bentley customer hospitality sessions (Guy Smith was out on one of those about 3 weeks ago)
So that's why they built them!

Because obviously they didn't build them to go racing.
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The Bentley in the hands of a US collector joins two Audi R8Rs, a couple (at least) of Porsche 956/962s, three Ferrari 333 SPs, and more. Some of these are LeMans winners. The owner is a businessman, originally from the UK, who has recently faced massive financial and legal problems (massive in this case is close to have a Billion US Dollars). It is likely that all these cars will be tied up for years and year.
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A case of Schlumpf's Disease, then.
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If anyone wants to know about the Bentley Le Mans project I would advise them to get there hands on this book, its a good read and my copy is signed by Guy Smith.
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 15:27 (Ref:1458214)   #12
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A short summary:

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Old 11 Nov 2005, 18:11 (Ref:1458340)   #13
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The owner ... has recently faced massive financial and legal problems (massive in this case is close to have a Billion US Dollars). It is likely that all these cars will be tied up for years and year.
Maybe he will be forced to sell them (bankrupt stock auction???) - so they might work their way in to the hands of somebody who will use them (Japan?)
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 18:49 (Ref:1458362)   #14
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With the ACO change of regs, would they even be able to participate anymore?
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Old 11 Nov 2005, 19:17 (Ref:1458375)   #15
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The Bentley in the hands of a US collector joins two Audi R8Rs, a couple (at least) of Porsche 956/962s, three Ferrari 333 SPs, and more. Some of these are LeMans winners. The owner is a businessman, originally from the UK, who has recently faced massive financial and legal problems (massive in this case is close to have a Billion US Dollars). It is likely that all these cars will be tied up for years and year.
Man, talk about hedging your bets. I understand his firm was rather well placed in the art world, too. That's an awful lot of investment outside their core business.
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A case of Schlumpf's Disease, then.
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