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[Howard]

Don't get your car graphics done there !! Although what sort of graphics they would be putting on a Bentley i can't imagine !

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/20090308105236mbmnews.html

 

[robert.saunders]

That was in The Sun! (not that I read it; I happened to glance at it )

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2355634.ece

And recovery:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2358145.ece

 

[Howard]

Crikey , look at the roof where the boat has clonked it ...

 

[andy_k]

from the Sun

'The £100,000 Continental GT skidded across a ROUNDABOUT, smashed through a metal POST and careered down a bank into the water. '

further down the article

'But when a staff member went to move the silver Bentley it appears there was a brake fault. '

I wonder how fast they were 'moving it'

 

[Howard]

I know you can't see the front nearside , but it doesn't look like it has 'SMASHED' through a metal post to me ....

I think someone has been telling porkies ....

 

[MD5]

from the Sun

'The £100,000 Continental GT skidded across a ROUNDABOUT, smashed through a metal POST and careered down a bank into the water. '

Best place for it! Horrible cars - they haven't really improved on the original design much, either!

 

[Mactech]

Best place for it! Horrible cars - they haven't really improved on the original design much, either!

Oi! One of my mates did the styling on the Continental GT. The car he did before that was the........Fabia!
Do tell what the hell that thing is??? I'm guessing Eastern block

 

[pos.k]

Best place for it! Horrible cars - they haven't really improved on the original design much, either!

At least this one doesn't have a boat parked in the roof and a horrid blue buoy hanging out the window - (seems the other one had a horrid buoy on the inside too!)

 

[MD5]

Oi! One of my mates did the styling on the Continental GT. The car he did before that was the........Fabia!
Do tell what the hell that thing is??? I'm guessing Eastern block

Continental GT and a Fabia? Schizophrenic, eh? I'll bet there's more leg room in the back of the Fabia!!

As soon as I saw the Bentley, I thought of the old Standard Vanguard, pictured above.

 

[Ted]

That looks like a phase 1 Vanguard to me.....

Edit
THIS is more like a proper Continental

Beautiful.
Actually, I think handsome better describes it.

 

[Mactech]

Blimey! The LHD, plates and foreign buildings threw me. Not sure I have ever seen a phase 1 Vanguard.
Bentley designer Raul Pires is Brazilian....

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2006/prestige-and-luxury/bentley/bentleys-wonder-boy-2295

and the company owned by the Germans... that will be international then!

 

[pos.k]

[QUOTE

... that will be international then![/QUOTE]

no.....Continental

 

[MD5]

That looks like a phase 1 Vanguard to me.....

Edit
THIS is more like a proper Continental

Beautiful.
Actually, I think handsome better describes it.

Drop dead gorgeous, Ted. You can almost smell Alan Whicker!

I read another post elsewhere here (I think) where someone left their car in a third party's care to see it later being used for a jolly. It could make you paranoid about having work done on your car.

 

[del320]

Oi! One of my mates did the styling on the Continental GT. The car he did before that was the........Fabia!
Do tell what the hell that thing is??? I'm guessing Eastern block

Oi! I taught myself to drive in one of those 44 years ago!

 

[Mactech]

Oi! I taught myself to drive in one of those 44 years ago!

Were you just going in, or coming out of the river when this was taken?

 

[bpsorrel]

Whever I see one of those Bentley GTs it reminds me of this classic of design from Russia...

Which is a Pobeda, made by the company that later built the Volga and now the Siber. See the similairty? Seems Russia was ahead of the game on this one!

 

[NewMB]

Blimey! The LHD, plates and foreign buildings threw me. Not sure I have ever seen a phase 1 Vanguard.
Bentley designer Raul Pires is Brazilian....

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2006/prestige-and-luxury/bentley/bentleys-wonder-boy-2295

and the company owned by the Germans... that will be international then!

Norweigan plates as it happens.....

 

[glojo]

Crikey , look at the roof where the boat has clonked it ...

If that boat had not dented the roof I bet when the tide goes out the car will be in perfect condition and the driver will be able to nonchantly drive awya without a care in the Wolrd

I wonder if there were any trapped fish in the ashtray?

(just trying to keep on topic)

 

[Mactech]

I wonder if there were any trapped fish in the ashtray?

(just trying to keep on topic)

'NO' said an offishal

 

[janner]

Surely you'd find smoked fish in the ashtray?