Full Throttle- Tim Birkin
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I was just leafing through my copy of "Full Throttle" , as you do. Well it is dedicated to all schoolboys. Well I noticed that it has been very carefully signed by what looks like "R R W Rons. Now I don't know enough about Bentley folklore to know who this gentleman is? He may just be the former owner of the book. Anyway I thought it was worth asking. Thanks James
THE OTHER BENTLEY BOYS - ELIZABETH NAGLE
I can highly recommend, it's all about the guys that worked in the service department and who were despatched to all corners to fettle and fix customers cars. Some great stories and fantastic characters in the book, like the lady in Mayfair who had a chauffeur driven 8 litre and it was only used to walk the dogs at a snails pace and it never got used properly, or the Portuguese aristo who had a little man to sit in the back of the car full time, who's job was to periodically get out and clean the screen, but was never ever spoken too or acknowledged in any way.
Great book, and the people in it are as mad & eccentric as can be.
I can highly recommend, it's all about the guys that worked in the service department and who were despatched to all corners to fettle and fix customers cars. Some great stories and fantastic characters in the book, like the lady in Mayfair who had a chauffeur driven 8 litre and it was only used to walk the dogs at a snails pace and it never got used properly, or the Portuguese aristo who had a little man to sit in the back of the car full time, who's job was to periodically get out and clean the screen, but was never ever spoken too or acknowledged in any way.
Great book, and the people in it are as mad & eccentric as can be.
I have a copy of "the Bentley Era " By Nicholas Foulkes.
Highly reccomended. Available in soft cover for about £15.
Its the story of the Bentley Boys and there escapades. They sure knew how to party in those days.
Now a Welsh rugby player pops out for breakfast and drives down the M4 in a "borrowed" golf buggy and gets charged and thrown out of the squad
Highly reccomended. Available in soft cover for about £15.
Its the story of the Bentley Boys and there escapades. They sure knew how to party in those days.
Now a Welsh rugby player pops out for breakfast and drives down the M4 in a "borrowed" golf buggy and gets charged and thrown out of the squad
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