FM-1101 Pre-War · Open Tourer
1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Open Tourer
A W.O.-era Bentley with sixty years of continuous, documented ownership history.
Price on request Older restoration, maturing
FM-1103 · Pre-War · 1919 – 1942
1934 Riley Kestrel 12/4 Sports Saloon
A remarkably original fastback saloon — the thinking enthusiast's pre-war car.
$46,500 USD
Grade IV — Preserved original
The motor car
Riley's Kestrel bodywork gave the 12/4 chassis a rakish fastback profile years ahead of its time, and this example survives in genuinely original order: original interior woodwork, original upholstery now carefully conserved, and an engine believed original to the car.
The twin-camshaft four (a hemi-head design with short pushrods, decades before that layout became fashionable) revs freely, and the pre-selector gearbox makes town driving unexpectedly relaxed. A preservation-class car we would encourage the next owner to conserve rather than restore.
Restoration & condition
- Never restored — conserved original paint with honest wear, professionally stabilised
- Interior leather fed and conserved; original headlining intact
- Full mechanical recommissioning in our workshop: cooling, ignition, fuel system and brakes
- Pre-selector gearbox serviced with new bands 2025
- Accompanied by buff logbook copy and club records
Graded Grade IV — Preserved original under the Ferrobello grading standard. Substantially as it left the factory. Original paint or a single documented repaint, original interior, unrestored driveline. Cars in this grade are conserved, never restored.
From the dossier
Provenance
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1934
First registered in the south of England; Kestrel sports saloon coachwork from new
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1959
Passed to its second keeper, a schoolmaster who kept it 44 years and resisted all offers to restore it
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2003
Joined a preservation-focused private collection; sympathetically maintained, never repainted
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2025
Acquired by Ferrobello Motors; mechanically recommissioned, originality survey lodged in the history file
Ownership chain verified by our registrar against logbooks, invoices and archive records; the complete dossier accompanies the car.
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