BENTLEY SPOTTING

A Fact

This was on a car window at the National Meet. Yeah, and that's me....

Enough said.

(Posted by David Irvine)

Flying Cars

Concours cars being prepped at the RROC meet in Pennsylvania last month.

You must have axle stands.

That's too much for me....

What happens if it rains?

I'd cry.

(Posted by David Irvine)

"Gotcha!"

Those bloody Gatso Cameras....

Gotcha in yer Silver Ghost....!

25 mph....

I guess the Red Flag Law no longer applies to old cars...

The Law:

"Firstly, at least three persons shall be employed to drive or conduct such locomotive, and if more than two waggons or carriages he attached thereto, an additional person shall be employed, who shall take charge of such waggons or carriages :

Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed, and shall warn the riders and drivers of horses of the approach of such locomotives, and shall signal the driver thereof when it shall be necessary to stop, and shall assist horses, and carriages drawn by horses, passing the same,

The Red Flag Law was repealed in 1896, by which time the internal combustion engine was well into its infancy."

Those were the days. Can you imagine...?

Now we have speed cameras.

(Posted by David Irvine)

Birdviews

I've been having a bit of fun lately spotting Bentleys & Rolls-Royces from a window high above in Toronto.

Not great shots as most were taken with my Blackberry camera but interesting. It is surprising just what I have seen from the window.

How about a nice Azure weaving through the construction.

Lots of Continental GTCs and GTs.

A Continental Flying Spur

A nice Continental (Corniche style).

Goodwood cars:

Ghost.

Phantom

Newer Phantom

'Pimped' Phantom

Another Phantom

And the ultimate. A FHC Phantom - super rare here.

I do have more...

(Posted by David Irvine)

September

A little late, but here's the official Bentley Motors' calendar page.

(Posted by David Irvine)

Spot the Difference.

'Badge Engineering'.

Back in the Silver Shadow years (1966 to 1980) only seven percent of the Crewe cars were badged as Bentleys.

They were simply the same car as a Rolls-Royce with a different grille and badges. No different suspension, no turbos and no alloy wheels as we expect from the nineties' cars. And a couple of hundred of Quid less.

Well most of the badges, as they got a little lazy with some Bentleys and often they would leave the factory with 'RR' on the gauges, brake pedals and even 'Rolls-Royce' written on the engine rocker covers.

Here's fine black 1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II.