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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Blast in the past: reborn Bentley Blower Continuation driven
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