The Bentley 4¼ liter engine was created initially in March of 1936 by simply enlarging the Bentley 3½ liter. The 3½ liter engine’s bore was increased to 3½” (88.9mm) which gave the engine a capacity of…
Daimler Ferret Scout Car
I think the Daimler Ferret scout car was quite probably the inspiration for the Daleks of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Dalek is a robotic looking creature that moves around shouting “exterminate”…
Bentley 4½-Litre Le Mans Sports “The Bobtail”
Walter Owen Bentley was right, and James Bond 007 chose the wrong car. W.O. Bentley was of the strong opinion that supercharging an engine was not a good idea and that simply increasing the engine capacity…
Ex-Sammy Davis Jr. Rolls Royce Camargue
For those who lived the high life of Hollywood Showbiz back in the halcyon days of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. money was mostly no object and life was…
Bugatti Type 57S Cabriolet by Vanvooren
In his best selling book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Douglas Adams describes a scenario in which mankind create a great computer called “Deep Thought” and they ask Deep Thought to give them the answer…
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I Shooting Brake
Rolls-Royces have not always been boring. When the company was created back in 1906 they created cars for the wealthy including the creatively eccentric wealthy who liked to engage in adventurous activities in their Rolls-Royces. Rolls-Royce…