Tuesday, 21 August 2012

4.5 blower bentley 1929



The ex-Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin 1929 4½ litre supercharged 'Blower' Bentley, which when new raised the Brooklands Outer Circuit record to 222.03 kmph, sold for £5,042,000 (Rs 43.46 crore) at an auction

Bently boys 1920


Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin was a baronet who became one of the most famed of the legendary “Bentley Boys” of the 1920s – 30s

charcoal car

I stumbled on this odd photo the other day on the Green Car Congress blog. It’s a photo of a vintage 1938 3.5 LiterOpel being displayed at a 2006 Frankfurt car show. The novelty here is that the Opel didn’t run on petrol – it was100% charcoal powered back in the day.