And it looks absolutely magnificent.
Bentley just completed work on its first 4½ Litre Blower in nine decades, piecing together the first example of a 12-car continuation series the British marque is working on.
Actually, it s not even the first example; technically, Bentley says, this is Car Zero - a prototype for the rest of the series, which is already pre-sold. The carmaker plans to use Car Zero as a dedicated test and development prototype, subjecting it to months of durability and performance testing to ensure that the dozen Blowers it ships to customers are of the expected quality. It sounds a bit silly, the thought of Bentley doing the same sort of development testing on a 90-year-old car as it might do on, say, a new Continental, but it makes sense given how the Blower was reborn: through reverse-engineering an original 1929 Bentley Team Car with precise laser-scanning and extensive CAD work.
Bentley Blower is back! British marque completes reborn 1920s legendary racer ahead of a limited run of 12 customer cars that each cost £1.8MILLION
Just 12 continuation Bentley Blowers will be produced - Car Zero is going to be the template for the builds
The prototype took 40,000 man hours to complete and is the result of lase-scanning the 91-year-old original
Each of the customer cars will cost a massive £1.5million each (£1.8m in the UK including VAT) - all are sold
The first recreation will undergo a real-world durability assessment covering a total of almost 22,000 miles
Bentley bosses said it will take 48 months to complete the exclusive production run that follows Car Zero