The Bentley 4.5 Litre 'Blower' Is A Le Mans Legend! 

When you drive it You can definitely see why James Bond (of the novels not the films) was so in love with this masterpiece of a car that he maintained it for as long as he did and why Ian Fleming had chosen it as the bond car

There's nothing quite like driving a well sorted Vintage Bentley. I've had my 4.5 for 22 years and never get tired of driving it.

I want that straight-cut gearbox, supercharged engine noise as a ring tone....

The original James Bond car - a 1933 4.5-litre convertible in battleship grey with an Amherst-Villiers supercharger and Marchal headlamps.

What a great car, truly awesome. It was a pity though that the audio, perhaps understandably, was so poor.

Bentley really do have so much better an appreciation of their target market than R-R. While R-R are intent on appealing to "rule-breakers & iconoclasts", Bentley go out and recreate racing specials for enthusiasts. That is the way to bring in customers.

Beautiful car. I love how much of it is made of copper, like that little mount/shield, with a riveted bent aluminium plate (with something mounted facing bulkhead I guess), castle nuts on the bottom of the copper prongs. Old school cool.

Were taking the Bentley!

I think technically the Alvis Bertelli coupe and Lancefield tourer would be some of the first pre-war continuation cars, 1935 and 1938, the originals. I’m pretty sure they embarked on that journey a little bit before Bentley did. Chronologically of course the Bentley is an earlier car. Any chance Classics World could visit Alvis and check out how the continuation line is going? They don’t have a big social media presence and could use the publicity. I don’t believe they have the money to build all of the allotted number of cars all at once. I think they’ve done like 1 of each and the rest is on request. 220k or so, bargain quite frankly. The Graber Alvis is probably the finest looking motor car of all time, and supremely underrated. That would be a dream video of mine and interesting to the pre-war, coachbuilding and Bentley/Rolls people too, especially as Park Ward built many bodies for Alvis and Rolls and Bentley. I am fairly positive they have actually built at least 1 continuation, maybe it’s not finished, maybe the press photos are the original cars. I have seen images of them literally building an entire body from scratch though, Graber or Park Ward. They’re much like the Bentley, very few changes from original.

What a car!

As magnificent as the Blower is I've always preferred the 8 Litre

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To be honest I think id get fed up with battling with it after a while.

Needs an electric conversion 😃