After selling twelve 'Blower' recreations for £1.5m each, Bentley announces twelve 'Speed Six' continuations.
The mighty Speed Six became the most successful racing Bentley of its time, winning Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 driven by the good old Bentley Boys – Tim Birkin, Glen Kidston and Woolf Barnato. And to mark its racing icon, Bentley is reintroducing the Speed Six name to its current line-up – not as a badge-engineered Continental GT or Flying Spur, but as another recreation series, announced on Friday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed., this will be a twelve-car run.
The original Speed Six chassis was launched in 1928, and its 6½ litre engine represented W.O. Bentley’s faith in cubic inches over forced induction. To tease out the performance he was after, the Speed Six was fitted with twin SU carburettors, a higher compression ratio and a high-performance camshaft. The end result was 180hp. 182 examples were built, and they came in a range of wheelbases from 3,505mm to 3,874mm – the short chassis proving most popular.
As with the previous recreations, the team will be working from the original blueprints as well as producing detailed 3D CAD models from original cars. “Old Number 3” is one of those, which is part of a private collection and still raced today. The other car is from Bentley’s Heritage Collection – a 1929 road car with a four-seat Vanden Plas body. This is the car that’ll be used to benchmark the performance and handling of the continuation cars.
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