It is true that without the cars there would have been no “Bentley Boys,” but it is equally true that...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley and Bugatti, while also celebrating the 100th anniversaries of both Audi and Morgan, and highlighting the designs of Ugo Zagato. The Concours will be preceded by a string of complementary...
Founded by Kent Bain and Charles Webb in 1978, Automotive Restorations, and its racing arm Vintage Racing Services, has grown...
It has been decades since the first Bentley T-Series was taken off the road and placed in storage. It will...
Bentley is to make 12 “continuation” examples of the supercharged 4.5-liter Birkin “Blower,” one of those cars whose legend far surpasses its achievement. For a time it could claim to be the world’s fastest car, but it was built for racing and in that context it must be regarded as...
Bentley is celebrating 70 years since the start of production of the R-Type Continental – one of the most celebrated...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford was lucky enough to get the opportunity to drive the most powerful and most expensive production Bentley ever made: the Batur....
DM Historics, the British heritage motorsport specialist is offering a 1924 Bentley 3-Liter, a great example of British motoring excellence, giving the...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
The R-Type Continental was as rare a sight in the 1950s as it is today – but it went down...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
Bentley Motors has handcrafted a unique and one-off Continental GT Azure, inspired by Bentley’s retained example of the iconic R-Type Continental, JAS 949. The new Continental GT is in honor of JAS 949’s 70th birthday, celebrating one of the important style icons in Bentley’s history. JAS 949 is one of...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and...
To anyone interested in automotive history, the late 1940s and early ‘50s was a fascinating period of time, especially in...
Just 35 miles away from the fabled Brooklands race circuit where eight decades ago this single-seat racing Bentley astonished spectators by sprinting its way into the record books, Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin’s dramatic 4.5 Liter Supercharged “Blower” Bentley returned to record-breaking form by reaching a sale price of £4.5 million...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9. A broad collection of Bentleys of all vintages will take to the track to honor the continuous run of annual BDC events held at the Northamptonshire circuit since 1949. Anchoring...
In the world of racing, automotive brands, more often than not, become flag bearers of national pride and heritage. In...
The first decade of the 24-Hours of Le Mans was virtually dominated by Bentley. The famed cars from Crewe won...
A completely new route awaits competitors winding their way through Italy’s Dolomite Mountains on the 21st running of Le Mitiche Sport a Bassano, sponsored by Eberhard Watches, this June 18-21. The route may be new, but the event will remain largely the same, featuring the same friendly atmosphere of the...
The Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance will return to Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, June 16, 2019, celebrating 26 years as...
Bentley has re-created a long-lost car from its illustrious past that provides a crucial link in the history of its...
Often confused with the Speed 6, the 6½ Litre was Bentley’s first large-displacement, six-cylinder car. The new engine was necessary to bolster the image of Bentley beyond rivals of Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz. Furthermore, the six-cylinder unit ran much smoother than the 6½. The new engine was very advanced, using aluminum...
The 100th anniversary of Bentley will be celebrated at the Salon Prive 2019, scheduled for 5-8 September at the Blenheim...
Yes, girls, too. In fact, if it hadn’t been for one—Mildred Mary Bruce—the famous Blower Bentley could have stayed an...
Bentley has celebrated 100 years to the day of their first race victory. In celebration of the achievement, Bentley brought out the winning car itself, known as EXP2, to lead a parade of 3-Liter Bentleys at the Brooklands Racetrack in Surrey. EXP2 is the second car that W.O. Bentley company ever constructed. Manufactured in 1921,...