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All those little trinkets were available as options, but one box I certainly would not have ticked. This one already was optioned to the tune of £43k, over 4 times the price I paid for my first house....
Bentley Boy!
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Just get some off eBay or Ali-Express.
It would add a bit of class to a very bland average car.
(Joking)
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I'm really offended that you had to add the (Joking) bit.....Just get some off eBay or Ali-Express.
It would add a bit of class to a very bland average car.
(Joking)
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I'm really offended that you had to add the (Joking) bit.....
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Cracking looking car.Only those with a very keen eye or obsessive wheel and tyre guys (like me!) would have noticed that the tyres on my Bentley were different front to rear. It had the factory fit Pirelli P zero (B1) tyres up front and some Conti Sportcontact 5's on the rear. The rears were down to about 4mm and had date codes of 2017 on them. They just had to go and be replaced with proper Bentley Pirelli rears.
I know how much work went into ensuring those specific tyres were the best for the job, and having only driven the car on four proper tyres for just 8 miles, I can already feel I was right to change them. They had always been factored in to my purchase and I now have four matching tyres, all B1 type, above 6mm tread and with date codes after 2021. The car now drives even better than previously and feels spot on.
Of course I had to repressure the tyres after fitting (tyre fitters only seem to be able to get somewhere between 30 and 40psi) with my super accurate motorsport gauge, but was pleased to see that the on board TPMS matched to within 0.5psi.
It's now ready for it's holiday in the Lakes
PS Happy New Tyre Day!
PPS Happy Golden Anniversary to you both!
Could well be! If we spin north about 45deg, you might just spot Jodrell Bank....
Fascinating fact for a wet Monday - around 50 years ago our house was named "Jodders" after Jodrell Bank. You'd need pretty decent eyesight to see it though as it's about 30 miles away. Must give this old cast sign a refurb. (the main one is by the front door).
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To quote what Michael Caine never did say...."Not a lot of people know that!"
I say: "You just can't get the Staffs..."
PS. It's not a wet Monday here in Norfolk....
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Or Suffolk
Or Suffolk
I was in Suffolk until Sunday PM (Trinity Park, Ipswich) and it was lovely there
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I fuelled the car today after (only!) about 650 miles and found it would take just 75 litres into the 85 litre tank.
I now have range showing of 730 miles even after driving the 10 miles home, so I'm now very confident it will actually do over 700 miles on one tank of fuel
In a Bentley!
That is probably illegal!
I now have range showing of 730 miles even after driving the 10 miles home, so I'm now very confident it will actually do over 700 miles on one tank of fuel
In a Bentley!
That is probably illegal!
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At least you're running on 4 wheels, unlike the video I saw today of a £175k Bentley going down the motorway having lost the front offside tyre, leaving a trail of sparks from the front OS "wheel"!!
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Moment £175k Bentley is driven down motorway - while missing a tyre
A driver captured the moment a £175k Bentley was driven down a motorway - while missing a tyre. Joseph Grieve, 27, was heading along the M25 near London en route to Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany, with his mate when he spotted the luxury motor chugging along. At around 6am, Joseph noticed sparks...
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He'd got the hazards on and the shower of sparks so he was well visible, I don't see the problem!At least you're running on 4 wheels, unlike the video I saw today of a £175k Bentley going down the motorway having lost the front offside tyre, leaving a trail of sparks from the front OS "wheel"!!
Moment £175k Bentley is driven down motorway - while missing a tyre
A driver captured the moment a £175k Bentley was driven down a motorway - while missing a tyre. Joseph Grieve, 27, was heading along the M25 near London en route to Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany, with his mate when he spotted the luxury motor chugging along. At around 6am, Joseph noticed sparks...
Having spent a life in motorsport, this sort of minor indecent would hardly warrant a second glance, but I know I don't have quite the same perspective as. most. I've had a Bentley GT3 finish on the podium in it's very first race in a similar condition, it did have a tyre but suffered a strut failure on the very last lap of a 12 hour race....in a shower of sparks!
I'm just a little obsessive with tyres. The rears wheels will be off the car again today to clean the nasty gum marks off from the old wheel weights. The tyres will get a forensic inspection at the same time
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He'd got the hazards on and the shower of sparks so he was well visible, I don't see the problem!
Having spent a life in motorsport, this sort of minor indecent would hardly warrant a second glance, but I know I don't have quite the same perspective as. most. I've had a Bentley GT3 finish on the podium in it's very first race in a similar condition, it did have a tyre but suffered a strut failure on the very last lap of a 12 hour race....in a shower of sparks!
I'm just a little obsessive with tyres. The rears wheels will be off the car again today to clean the nasty gum marks off from the old wheel weights. The tyres will get a forensic inspection at the same time
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As long as the tyre people haven't torqued the wheels to 
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A little pub quiz type trivia about the Bentley badge.
It was drawn to my attention back in 2000 when we were deciding what the group of people who were going to run the Bentley Le Mans project would be called. The names Team/Racing/Competition were all considered prior to Team Bentley being chosen.
It was then that the graphics guy noticed there seemed to be a 'mistake' on the winged logo he had been given in so far that there were unequal numbers of feathers on the left and right of the logo.
Far from being a mistake, this was a deliberate ploy by W O Bentley back in the 1920's to make the logo more difficult to forge. The Mercedes 3-pointed star is rather easier to copy!
I'm glad to see that all the badges on the exterior and seats of my car appear to be genuine!
Who knew?
It was drawn to my attention back in 2000 when we were deciding what the group of people who were going to run the Bentley Le Mans project would be called. The names Team/Racing/Competition were all considered prior to Team Bentley being chosen.
It was then that the graphics guy noticed there seemed to be a 'mistake' on the winged logo he had been given in so far that there were unequal numbers of feathers on the left and right of the logo.
Far from being a mistake, this was a deliberate ploy by W O Bentley back in the 1920's to make the logo more difficult to forge. The Mercedes 3-pointed star is rather easier to copy!
I'm glad to see that all the badges on the exterior and seats of my car appear to be genuine!
Who knew?
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I did.... but then I stare at at the detail on Petersens, just for fun.
This could be the inspiration for one of those archaic fact threads, like
"Who built cars on Clapham High Street, in what is now a nightclub?"
(Not the fun that it used to be, before the Interweb)
This could be the inspiration for one of those archaic fact threads, like
"Who built cars on Clapham High Street, in what is now a nightclub?"
(Not the fun that it used to be, before the Interweb)
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About the only single fact about Clapham that I know was where my wife to be's nurses flat was when she was training at the Westminster.....
...but that's common enough....
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And I thought you'd be best buds with Robert Brooks who ran his auction house from that converted taxi garage on Clapham Common, dabbling in historic racing and growing it to take over Bonhams and a few other motoring auctions.....
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And I knew where the nurse's flats were for Freedom Fields hospital in Guz (Plymouth to you landlubbers!) But that is a whole different post/thread......
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Today the Bentley and I took a little trip further north in Norfolk to visit a good friend of mine who until today had a rather unique claim.
'The only Bentley I have been in, is one I designed myself' I don't think even W O Bentley could have claimed that!
Peter Elleray is the designer of the only Bentley to have won Le Mans in the last 90 years.
Here he is with the drivers who finished 1st and 2nd in 2003. The car was the guest of honour at the Savoy a few days after the race in proper Bentley tradition.
He got to ride with Le Mans winner Guy Smith (centre) for a few laps of Snetterton.
So today I took him to lunch in a road going Bentley for his first ride in a Bentley that he hadn't designed.
Peter and I have worked on a number of projects together, but none more successful than the Bentley Le Mans project.
He was very impressed with the refinement and the shove into the seat as over 900nM of torque is deployed and commented that the roll control was 'other worldly'.
It was me who mentioned that Mr Bugatti had said that Mr Bentley built very fast lorries, with which he agreed but felt it really didn't feel so big to ride in, but it did have great deal more room than the one he designed!
The car continues to impress me with it's frugality.
With 72 miles covered since I filled the car, the fuel gauge has hardly left the stop and it is still showing a range of 700 miles. I can probably go on holiday to the Lakes on Thursday and not have to fill the car until it is back in Norfolk...
I wouldn't be trying that with the BMW i3
'The only Bentley I have been in, is one I designed myself' I don't think even W O Bentley could have claimed that!
Peter Elleray is the designer of the only Bentley to have won Le Mans in the last 90 years.
Here he is with the drivers who finished 1st and 2nd in 2003. The car was the guest of honour at the Savoy a few days after the race in proper Bentley tradition.
He got to ride with Le Mans winner Guy Smith (centre) for a few laps of Snetterton.
So today I took him to lunch in a road going Bentley for his first ride in a Bentley that he hadn't designed.
Peter and I have worked on a number of projects together, but none more successful than the Bentley Le Mans project.
He was very impressed with the refinement and the shove into the seat as over 900nM of torque is deployed and commented that the roll control was 'other worldly'.
It was me who mentioned that Mr Bugatti had said that Mr Bentley built very fast lorries, with which he agreed but felt it really didn't feel so big to ride in, but it did have great deal more room than the one he designed!
The car continues to impress me with it's frugality.
With 72 miles covered since I filled the car, the fuel gauge has hardly left the stop and it is still showing a range of 700 miles. I can probably go on holiday to the Lakes on Thursday and not have to fill the car until it is back in Norfolk...
I wouldn't be trying that with the BMW i3
