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29 April 2008

Talking of Sports Cars: A Bentley Hybrid

It is some considerable time since a vintage Bentley came into this series. The example now selected is thoroughly "special" and a decidedly live specimen. At all events it was live to good effect during last year's sprint events, in the hands of its builder and owner, Maurice Brierley, of Speldhurst, Kent. With a cut-down 3-litre chassis and a 4 1/2-litre engine a decidedly potent piece of machinery has been evolved and the car handles very well indeed...

Talking of Sports Cars: A Bentley Hybrid
Published in "Autocar", April 30, 1948

It is some considerable time since a vintage Bentley came into this series. The example now selected is thoroughly "special" and a decidedly live specimen. At all events it was live to good effect during last year's sprint events, in the hands of its builder and owner, Maurice Brierley, of Speldhurst, Kent. With a cut-down 3-litre chassis and a 4 1/2-litre engine a decidedly potent piece of machinery has been evolved and the car handles very well indeed...    Continued...

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First published in "Autocar", April 30, 1948
Posted here on Apr 29, 2008