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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: bentleybob on April 06, 2012, 07:03:38 AM

Title: Bentleybob 42: Bentley Estoril by Park Ward
Post by: bentleybob 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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Post by: bentleybob on April 18, 2012, 05:23:17 AM
Up?
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Post by: bentleybob on May 02, 2012, 05:32:53 AM
And so to the pros...
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Post by: Allemano on May 02, 2012, 05:38:37 AM
Bentley by Pinin Farina?
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Post by: Carnut on May 02, 2012, 05:39:04 AM
is it a Bentley, bob?!
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Post by: Wendax on May 02, 2012, 05:43:51 AM
Hooper-bodied Bentley?
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Post by: Allemano on May 02, 2012, 05:46:31 AM
..or maybe Abbott?
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Post by: woodinsight on May 02, 2012, 06:12:59 AM
Bentley with a Park Ward body?
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Post by: barrett 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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Post by: bentleybob 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.
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