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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.

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