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
2021 Bentley Blower Continuation Revives Bentley s Past
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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