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Vintage Bentley gathering dust in barn for 50 years set to sell for £70k

Described by the auctioneer as "the finest barn find" he'd encountered the 1935 classic car was used as a farm vehicle in Dorset until 1968

Newsroom August 23 06:32

A classic Bentley which has been gathering dust in an old cart shed for over 50 years is tipped to sell for £70,000.

The vintage 1935 car was bought new by Philip Bushell, a wealthy Australian tea merchant.

He shipped it over to Australia where it spent two decades before it returned to Britain in 1954.

The Bentley went up for sale at a garage in Shaftesbury, Dorset, where local farmer James Young paid £1,050 for it, the equivalent to £32,000 today.

He repainted it in black and used it as a farm vehicle until it failed its MOT in 1968.

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The Bentley was stored away in the cart shed, while its winged B radiator cap was taken into the farmhouse for safekeeping.

The car was pushed out of the shed for attempted repairs in 1971 but has remained tucked away inside since.

Read more: Telegraph

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