Shooting-brake Bentley!

display_5689f27b5a

A 3-litre Bentley, which was originally a tourer but which at some time had a “woodie” shooting-brake replacement body, has been found in a barn in Leicestershire, and is now in the Donington Racing Car Museum. An interesting point is that the original engine seems to have been changed for that used by John Duff to take many class-records at Brooklands in 1922 (including the “Double-Twelve-Hour” record depicted in the painting which formed the cover of the first issue of The Brooklands Gazette, which became Motor Sport, in 1925), and at Le Mans, San Sebastian and Boulogne in 1923. WB