The 100th anniversary of Bentley will be celebrated at the Salon Prive 2019, scheduled for 5-8 September at the Blenheim...
Salon Privé will this year dedicate two days (Saturday September 7thand Sunday 8th) to celebrating the centenary of one of...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic will celebrate Bentley’s 100th birthday with a very special anniversary race dedicated to honoring the illustrious British marque’s most significant historical milestone. To be staged on Saturday evening at the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival, the Bentley Centenary Trophy for Pre-War Sports Cars comes almost exactly...
As Bentley enters its Centenary year, the oldest remaining and first racing model – EXP 2 – will be displayed...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses...
Gentleman Heroes – YU 3250 The first Blower Bentley and the men who made it happen By Giles Chapman & Clare Hay Some of the best automotive books of the past 30 years have been passion projects. Works devoted to a very narrow or esoteric topic that might not make...
The arrival of every new year heralds a raft of exciting anniversaries and, in the car world, 2019 is crammed...
Once upon a time in a bar…well, near a bar…I was talking to a couple who had just bought a...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance blazes a new trail in 2019 as it relocates to Tyler Perry Studios in downtown Atlanta—growing its significant weekend of events to include the first annual Caffeine and Octane Invitational and highlighting Bentley as the featured marque in honor of the brand’s 100th anniversary, plus a ‘Reunion...
The 24th Annual Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance, benefiting Today’s Harbor for Children, formerly known as The Boys & Girls...
Goodwood has announced that an all-new race for pre-1930 vintage racing cars, the John Duff Trophy, will make its debut...
Following the news of the sole surviving 8-Liter Bentley Saloon by Vanden Plas being scheduled for auction, a pair of very special 1920s Bentleys has also just been added to Bonhams’ Quail Lodge lineup. A 1928 Bentley 6 ½ -Liter Open Sports Tourer by Barker, also the sole surviving example...
Shooting-brake: A conveyance used to carry shooting parties with their large supply of firearms, cartridges, provisions, dogs and game. It...
RM Auctions returned to Florida last weekend, April 6-7, for the company’s 16th annual Fort Lauderdale sale, where a total...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to a modern Korean buzzbox, to a 1930 Bentley Speed Six. While both the jet and the Hyundai with its automatic transmission and power this-and-that were purely means of transport, the...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland, the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France. In all there were three Mustangs, two Mercedes Pagoda, a Mercedes 280 SL, a 1937 Lagonda, a 1957 Bentley, two Porsches, two...
More than 1,100 classic vehicles and more than 5,600 people assembled at Brooklands Museum to celebrate its annual New Year’s...
The 2017 Benjafield’s 500 was staged 17 October at the Ascari Race Circuit in Malaga, Spain. The diverse grid of...
China’s third YanQi Island Concours d’Elegance, held in the Huairou District near Beijing, presented 38 top-level historic vehicles and 14 modern automobiles in one the top exhibitions of its kind in China. This year’s classic historic automobiles included: a 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS Prototipo (above, photo courtesy of YanQi...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Blue Train Challenge reached a dramatic conclusion in Cannes as the Cadillac that had been leading right from the start of the five-day rally “fried a wheel bearing” and had to retire on the final regularity. This gave the win to Richard and Tom Jeffcoate...
RM Sotheby’s 11th annual auction at Battersea Evolution in London generated £7,064,475 (US$9,308,461) in total sales with many of the...
In last week’s item about the Bentley Drivers Club’s August 5 outing at Silverstone, we apparently misinterpreted the results and...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced a day of fantastic club racing on the National circuit at Silverstone on Saturday August 5. Regarded by the Club as “more than just a race meeting,” the event mixed...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
La Leggenda di Bassano is a historic racing event on the calendars of the FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Vèhicules Anciens)...
Warm and windy weather welcomed a weekend of wings and wheels at the Flywheel Festival, Bicester Heritage, held at the former Second World War bomber station situated in Oxfordshire. Like a fine wine this event has matured with each and every edition, leaving the crowds of visitors eager to return...
