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Bentley will launch a 90-year-old sports car again

The Bentley Mulliner atelier, which specializes in private orders, has begun assembling a test, “zero” instance of the pre-war Blower model. The model celebrated its 90th anniversary last year.

The fact that Mulliner will be engaged in the reconstruction of the model became known back in 2019 – the representatives of the studio announced that they would build 12 copies. To do this, engineers disassembled one of the surviving samples of 1929 and created exact copies of all elements of the sports car. All replicas will be collected manually.

First of all, the chassis was delivered to the assembly shop, on which the remaining units and parts were installed. The body was made of ash, then the fuel tank and radiator were installed. After that, headlights appeared on the car, as well as an engine with an exact copy of the supercharger that Amherst Villiers had developed, a front axle and leaf springs.

Now the company is completing work on the creation of a test sample, its presentation should take place this year. After that, a series of 12 sports cars will go into production. The entire process of creating the model took almost a year from the engineers. At the same time, all future Blowers have already been booked and will be sent to the new owners immediately after assembly.

The original Bentley Blower was presented to the public at the London Motor Show in October 1929, and in the winter the first copies went to their new owners. At the same time, the car, which was conceived as an effective participant in auto racing, did not have the desired success. Despite the fact that Blower set a speed record that no one could beat for two years, he rarely reached the finish line. The main achievement in racing is the second place in the French Grand Prix of 1930.

In total, Bentley produced 55 examples of the regular Blower 41/2 Liter, but only four racing versions with a supercharger were created. The most valuable of them — it was driven by Sir Henry Birkin — still belongs to the Bentley.

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