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Bentley’s First New Blower Completed In 90 Years Bentley’s First New Blower Completed In 90 Years The limited 12 customer cars will be crafted from the design drawings and tooling jigs used for the original four Blowers built and raced by Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin in the late 1920s. 0  Views Highlights Car Zero makes debut as first new Blower since 1930 It is crafted entirely by hand from original drawings and tooling Bentley has completed the first new Blower in 90 years by delivering 'Car Zero' - the prototype car for the Blower Continuation Series. The company invested 40,000 hou...

And it looks absolutely magnificent. Bentley just completed work on its first 4½ Litre "Blower" in nine decades, piecing together the first example of a 12-car continuation series the British marque is working on. Actually, it's not even the first example; technically, Bentley says, this is "Car Zero" - a prototype for the rest of the series, which is already pre-sold. The carmaker plans to use Car Zero as a dedicated test and development prototype, subjecting it to months of durability and performance testing to ensure that the dozen Blowers it ships to customers are of the expected quality...

Bentley Blower is back! British marque completes reborn 1920s legendary racer ahead of a limited run of 12 customer cars that each cost £1.8MILLION Just 12 continuation Bentley Blowers will be produced - Car Zero is going to be the 'template' for the builds The prototype took 40,000 man hours to complete and is the result of lase-scanning the 91-year-old original Each of the customer cars will cost a massive £1.5million each (£1.8m in the UK including VAT) - all are sold The first recreation will undergo a real-world durability assessment covering a total of almost 22,000 miles Bentley bos...

autoevolution 10 Dec 2020, 0:42 UTC · by The limited-edition Bacalar with Continental GT underpinnings may be the most expensive Bentley in production today, but it’s not the most expensive Bentley overall. That title goes to a pre-war model known as the 4½ Litre Blower, which hammered for $6.6 million eight years ago. 19 photos In the hands of Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin, chassis number HB 3402 held the Brooklands motor course record for top speed from 1931 to 1934. The legendary Bentley Boy pushed the supercharged old-timer to 137.96 miles per hour (222.03 kph), which is absolutely in...

BENTLEY has unveiled its first classic Blower to roll off its production line in over 90 years after more than 40,000 hours of work by engineers.