Thought my TVR Griffith sounded great until ....

[RobCrezz]

Bentley blower?

Straight 8 arent they?

[Jag-D]

You should come to the Harewood Classic and Vintage hillclimb. See stuff like that and bigger flying up the hill in an almost graceless manner

[Jag-D]

anonymous said:

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ya bad lad showing up an octogenerian like that

[tvrgit]

I was a passenger in one of those about 2 years ago - it was motoring along with the engine sounding barely above idle (still loud though) then I looked at the speedo and he was doing 80...

[Jag-D]

tvrgit said:

I was a passenger in one of those about 2 years ago - it was motoring along with the engine sounding barely above idle (still loud though) then I looked at the speedo and he was doing 80...

Gotta love the old stuff, especially when it's driven like this

[Chris71]

anonymous said:

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My boss has got an open bodied 2+2 Derby Bentley special - no match for a Blower, but it's still no slouch. He was quicker off the line than my Focus when we were stooging round Le Mans last year nad it cruises at 80mph all day long quite happily. Not bad for something built in the early 1930s.

[dougc]

Right-ho old chap. I'm just taking the Vauxhall out for a pint of milk

Pip-pip



Huzzah!!

[Conceited]

Jag-D said:

Awesome!

[aka_kerrly]

WOW

Those pics of pre-war classics getting sideways are spectacular!!!! I have never seen anything like it.
dave

[Chris71]

aka_kerrly said:

WOW

Those pics of pre-war classics getting sideways are spectacular!!!! I have never seen anything like it.
dave

The red one (an Itala maybe?) is pre-FIRST world war I suspect!

A lot of people really underestimate the performance of the more serious pre-war cars. The silver arrow grand prix cars were hitting 200mph in the 1930s, and a road legal late '20s Bugatti Type 35 can hit 60mph in about 6 seconds!

[Munter]

Fun as it is to see them sideways...This kind of thing is bloomin scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATwSlHdiPY

[patmahe]

Munter said:

Fun as it is to see them sideways...This kind of thing is bloomin scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATwSlHdiPY

Its even more scary when you see other cars bearing down on him, especially when he is obscured from view by his own car. The thoughts of what could happen if one of them hit him

[The Wookie]

Reading the title I was expecting the first post to read 'until it threw a rod out of the block'

Sorry, prejudices aren't easy to shake

[mcdjl]

anonymous said:

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Along the north section around J25ish? If so I've seen it a couple of times (and made space for it) just so I could follow it for a few miles...one of my dream cars.

[julian64]

I was motoring round the M25 a few months ago in truly horrible winter weather and there was a lovely SS100. Fully weather kit from the driver though.

[The Black Flash]

Jag-D said:

[Chris71]

Munter said:

Fun as it is to see them sideways...This kind of thing is bloomin scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATwSlHdiPY

Ouch! Still that's the way it use to happen. Until modern rollover protection you genuinely were safer being thrown out and people survived some unbeleivable accidents after being jetisoned before their car somersaulted and crumpled.