Here’s proof that history really does repeat itself.
Jaguar and
Aston Martin might have kicked off the modern trend for ‘continuation’ versions of some of their greatest hits, but
Bentley has taken it to an entirely new level by heading much further back in time.
The
Blower Continuation is a factory-fresh version of a car that was last produced 90 years ago, and one that hasn’t been subjected to any modernisation to make it more civilised. The result is a car you don’t drive so much as engage in hand-to-hand combat with.
While some continuation runs have struggled to sell their full allocations, the limited-to-12 Blower was fully subscribed within weeks of Bentley confirming the project’s existence – despite a £1.5million (AUD$2.7m) ex-works price tag and the fact the cars can’t be road registered in many parts of the world.
2021 Bentley Blower Continuation Revives Bentley s Past
Bentley builds a supercharged time machine with a modern recreation of its legendary 1930 race car.
The gradual evolution of the automobile has meant that different innovations have arrived at different times, and leaping back 90 years in automotive history makes for a strange combination of the familiar and the utterly alien. It s a point made spectacularly well by the Bentley Blower Continuation, a vehicle that manages the unique trick of possessing both a new-car smell and a genuine pre-war driving experience.
The Blower s dial-strewn dashboard seems to have been modeled on the mantelpiece of an English country manor, yet it houses both a tachometer and a speedometer features that few cars had in 1930. It doesn t have a fuel gauge, however. A period Blower s owner or, likely, their servant would have checked the car s fuel level by simply gazing into its vast, 26.4-gallon tank. The Blower s floor-mounted gearshift is laid
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