British Car Day in Oakville, Ontario, Canada

It is always interesting to get to have a look at some other car events from around the world.

This times it is the British Car Day in Oakville, Ontario, Canada on the 20 September 2009.

They do look quite nice!

Constructing the Touring Limousine

The Mulliner Park Ward Silver Spur Touring Limousine is my favourite limousine.



If you are going to create more more interior room in a car, this is the way to do it.



Raise the roof, enlarge the D pillar, made the door swing from the B pillar and fill in the gap from the end of the door to the D pillar. Simple. Don't just stretch the middle. It will never be a balanced design.



Here are a couple of amazing photographs taken at Mulliner Park Ward during the construction of a Silver Spur Touring Limousine.

An extra 610mm is added to rear compartment and the roof is raised by 55mm.

You can really see the distinction between the new unpainted added metal and the original black standard car body.



This photo clearly shows the new body section that is added to the car. Not a photo you see everyday on the internet.



So do you want one? I do.

Can someone please buy me this one that is currently for sale in Japan?



It's for sale at Yahoo Auction Japan here.



An English translation is available here.



It is currently going for 5,000,000 円 or about $55,000USD.



I wonder what the rear badge says?



Arr, a Mulliner Park Ward Silver Spur II Limousine.



Just what the doctor ordered.



Lots of room to do things in the back seat.



Then have a drink after.



Nice.



Oh, and it's a right hand drive if you were interested.

Bentley Mulsanne Launch Video

From the design sketch...



to the finished Bentley Mulsanne.



Here is the introductory video of the new Bentley Mulsanne.

It is good to see generous parents in Prague.

Nice.

Now and Then

Now lets do a bit of integration of old and new technology.

In the 1970's and 1980's David was a avid Bentley spotter, and went around with his film camera taking pictures of Rolls Royce and Bentley cars.

Now with the ease of the internet, and companies like Google, we can just go looking around the world spotting cars from our computers. I first wrote about Virtual Bentley Spotting two years ago. Read about it here.

Now let's check out a photo the David took 33 years ago at 60 Beechill Park West, Belfast, Northern Ireland.



And now lets have a look at what Google Street View gives up today.

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The house in the background is pretty much the same. The window colour has changed from blue to white, and the next doors front fence is no longer, but the fence pillars are the same. Pity no beautiful car is there.

Now for another. How about 212 Saintfield Road, Castlereagh, Northern Ireland.

This photo was taken in 1980.



Oh damn - the Bentley S3 is no longer there.

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And the final look. This time at 30 Beechill Park East, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Hopefully you have been clicking and moving the interactive map around above.

This is what was there 29 years ago.







Thanks David for the photos and their locations.

Bentley Turbo R Hooper Spotted

This Bentley Turbo R Hooper is still on sale in Germany.



I am a fan of its centre console. The wood work is impressive!



Read more about the car is a previous posts here.

So what is new?



The car has been spotted on the street!



I do like a Hooper rear window.



It could be yours from MK Automobile & Boote for 17.990 EUR

Wheel and Tyre Experiments?

I wonder what is going on here.



These photos were taken in Frankfurt a couple of months ago. From the tape and the writing on the wheels - I'm thinking experiential car.

Click on image below for a close up look.



Can anyone decipher what it means?



Leave a comment if you can!

Another AX201

After reading about AX201 the Silver Ghost being used as a wedding car a new Bentley Spotting reader and RREC member Gabriël sent in his car that was used for his wedding.

It is AX201, but this time on a 1977 Silver Shadow II (RHD) bought 10 years ago from Tony James, President of the RREC.

And take a look at this picture! Next to the slightly more famous AX201 at the RREC annual rally in 2008.



The Shadow does have the usual options, but the dashboard has an additional feature. Ordered from the Rolls Royce factory, there is a Queen Elizabeth II silver jubilee (1977) coin fitted in the dashboard.

Gabriël, I think people would want to have a look at the coin in the dashboard! Thank you for sending in the picture, and hopefully some more will follow!

Another 500 Bentley Photos

If you are more interested at just looking at photos of Bentley and Rolls Royce cars - this one is for you.

Here are 500 photos for you to look through.

Enjoy!

Will be back soon

After nearly three years of Bentley Spotting, I have gone for over a month without any posts.

I've been on a little break from posting.

But not to fret, I will start again soon, with gems like this:



And more unusual things like this:



Yep a Touring Limousine being constructed at MPW.

Thanks to those who sent emails of encouragement.

I'll be back to the standard flair soon.