ICYMI: Here's what it's like to drive a brand-new, 92-year-old Bentley Blower. The automotive legend is an open-air history lesson at 100 mph:
Whatever, getting this car started is something of a rigmarole; click the electrics and ignition on, clunk both magneto switches, fuel pump on, press the big black wooden button starter and with a gentle whirr, the fires light and a grey puff of hydrocarbons blows back across the tonneau.
Driving any vintage Bentley is a work out for the shoulders and upper arms, and a physical trial not like anything you’re likely to meet anywhere else. There’s the vestigial drum; that center throttle with the clutch on the left and brake on the far right; the high driving position; the 1.8-tonne weight, and finally, the Bentley Type D gearbox, a device supremely untroubled by any sort of synchromesh and blessed with the temper and bite of an aged Jack Russell terrier.
So, who has bought these dozen replicas? Linde says that most of the new owners are well acquainted with vintage cars, but one in particular has only ever owned modern exotica. So, he’ll have to get used to climbing in from the passenger side, having a care the gear lever doesn’t slide up his trouser leg, get oil stains on his fashionable shoes from the leaking dashboard drip indicators, or have his brain frozen lapping at high speed in a sub-zero blast.
And while this car is superbly engineered, it passes diddly squat in terms of modern crash safety and, which means they will never be allowed out on the public road, which is the very essence of the enjoyment of these remarkable machines. The other thing is that the £1.5 million purchase price would buy you a tired 4 1/2 litre Bentley and a professional restoration/conversion could turn it into a Birkin replica, which you could then drive on the public road.
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