Bentley Holds a Garage Sale

Bentley holds a sales fair at its parts warehouse to make room for its upcoming models.

Mark your calendars now

Here at LotPro.com, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to have a 143,000 square foot warehouse filled with millions of parts from some of the world’s most expensive automobiles and suddenly find ourselves running out of room (actually, we’ve never really thought about it, it’s more of a rhetorical thought).

In any case, that’s the situation that Bentley Motors finds itself in as it prepares to invite owners, enthusiasts and professional traders to its Crewe warehouse in Cheshire for a two day parts and accessories sales fair the weekend of September 26th and 27th.

According to information released by Bentley:

Bentley Motors holds over 55,000 part lines for all Bentley models (1955 onwards) as well as Rolls-Royce cars built in Crewe (1955-2002) at its state-of-the-art 143,000 square foot warehouse on the outskirts of the Cheshire town. This equates to an astonishing 7 million items – all stored and catalogued on the company’s database.

Bring your Gold Card

By throwing open the warehouse doors, Bentley hopes to sell enough items so as to create additional space for the storage of parts and accessories for the upcoming Continental Supersports and the new (and as yet unnamed) grand Bentley which will debut at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours.

“Even Bentley employees describe our parts and accessories operation as a ‘goldmine’ and are slightly overawed by the sheer number and variety of parts and accessories we can supply”, comments Steve O’Hara Director of Aftersales at Bentley Motors.

“However with so many Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars enjoying far longer lives than a typical vehicle and owners seeking to keep them in the best possible condition, we need to be able to support these customers and many more generations of owners. We take real pride in being able to provide anything from a humble speedometer cable through to replacement body panels anywhere in the world.

This event will be a real one-off. It is very rare for us to be able to open the doors like this so we hope that Bentley and Rolls-Royce aficionados will make the most of the opportunity.”

You were expecting maybe Manny, Moe and Jack?

Unlike a visit to the local Pep Boys, a range of Bentley’s own factory trained experts will be close at hand to provide advice on identifying and sourcing the correct parts, while official logistics partners will also be in attendance to help arrange shipping.

Prospective attendees can register their interest by contacting the team at: heritage.event@bentley.co.uk by August 21st.

All images courtesy of Bentley Motors

Tags: Bentley, bentley motors, continental supersports, grand bentley, pebble beach concours, Rolls-Royce