Articles

23 February 2008

A Test of a Three Litre Bentley

Although frowned upon by the authorities, limited by law, and penalised when discovered, speed is the greatest attribute of a car, and from the car alone is it possible to realise to the full that peculiar feeling of greatness, soaring almost to poetic heights, consequent on high speed travelling. There are, however, certain private roads in our own country, and nearly all the national highways of fair France, on which a racing machine and an open throttle are not only allowed, but encouraged, to the great joy and thankfulness of those drivers who know really where the true pleasure of motoring exists.