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Bentley Le Mans cars
Does anyone know what happened to those achingly beautiful Bentleys from the early 2000's?
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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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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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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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Did RTN build there own monocoque for the Bentleys or were the constructed by ouside contractors like the R8. (Dallara)
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RTN build the chassis by themselves.
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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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With the ACO change of regs, would they even be able to participate anymore?
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Has anyone got any links to websites where these cars may live today?
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