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10 March 2008

Talking of Sports Cars: Supercharged Bentley

A novel angle on a vintage Bentley is given by a Canadian enthusiast's description of how he found a supercharged 4 1/2-litre in the U.S.A. a year or two before the war and thoroughly reconditioned it with the assistance of a number of equally enthusiastic friends. This Canadian, W. K. Johnson, is known to a good many members of the sporting fraternity here. He has been in England for the greater part of the war years, and has been present at most of the enthusiasts' gatherings held at the Rembrandt Hotel.

Talking of Sports Cars: Supercharged Bentley
Published in "Autocar", July 7, 1944

A novel angle on a vintage Bentley is given by a Canadian enthusiast's description of how he found a supercharged 4 1/2-litre in the U.S.A. a year or two before the war and thoroughly reconditioned it with the assistance of a number of equally enthusiastic friends. This Canadian, W. K. Johnson, is known to a good many members of the sporting fraternity here. He has been in England for the greater part of the war years, and has been present at most of the enthusiasts' gatherings held at the Rembrandt Hotel.     Continued...

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First published in the July 7, 1944 issue of "Autocar"
Posted here on Mar 10, 2008