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Blown Away |
By Mick Walsh |
Published
in "Classic & Sports Cars", May 2000 |
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What more appropriate place to test
Britain's, maybe the world's, fastest pre-war Bentley
than on the Melbourne Loop, where the supercharged 650bhp
Mercedes once roared in anger. Climbing in behind the
lorry-like four-spoke wheel and dropping down into the
snug black leather bucket seat, thoughts of the rubber
burnt by Caracciola and Seaman comes to mind as my thumb
aims at the cabinet-knob sized starter. Under the long
bonnet of this exotic. Royal Blue vintage special is
8 litres of serious supercharged grunt... Continued...
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First published
in "Classic & Sports Cars", May 2000 |
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Posted here on May
07, 2008 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147 |
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Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651 |
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Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg
for his Chassis No. KL3590 |
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Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207 |
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Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165 |
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