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The 4-litre chassis was conceived and built in a failed attempt to restore Bentley to a good financial state. Announced 15 May 1931, [ 6 ] it used a modified 4-litre Ricardo IOE engine in a shortened 8 Litre chassis at two-thirds of the price of the 8 Litre in an attempt to compete with the Rolls-Royce 20/25 .
Bentley racing car "Mother Gun", built 1927, 4.5 L engine. Bentley 4½ Litre No. 10 took third at the 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans. Between 1927 and 1931 the Bentley 4½ Litre competed in several competitions, primarily the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first was the Old Mother Gun at the 1927 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven as a prototype before production ...
W. O. Bentley wanted a more powerful car, so he developed a bigger model, the Speed Six. It was a huge car. Ettore Bugatti once referred to the Bentley as "the world's fastest lorry" ("Le camion plus vite du monde"). [3] [4] Bentley adhered strictly to his own assertion that increasing displacement is always preferable to forced induction: [5]
3½-litre coupé de ville by Thrupp & Maberly 1934. The Bentley 3½ Litre (later enlarged to 4¼ Litre) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1933 to 1939. It was presented to the public in September 1933, shortly after the death of Henry Royce, and was the first new Bentley model following Rolls-Royce's acquisition of the Bentley brand in 1931.
The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 [5] as a more sporting version of the Bentley 6½ Litre. [12] With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, [ 5 ] [ 8 ] [ 11 ] a high-performance camshaft, [ 14 ] and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced 180 hp (130 kW) at 3500 rpm.
Bentley 4½ Litre James Bond Fleming does not say what year the car is, although he describes it as "one of the last 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers." James Bond bought the car "almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war." Near the end of the novel, he crashes it in France. Citroën Le Chiffre
The Auto Union Grand Prix racing cars types A to D were developed and built by a specialist racing department of Auto Union's Horch works in Zwickau, Germany, between 1933 and 1939, after the company bought a design by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche in 1933. The Auto Union type B streamlined body was designed by Paul Jaray. [1]
Of the four Auto Union racing cars; the Types A, B, and C, which were used from 1934 to 1937, had supercharged V16 engines, and the final car, the Type D used in 1938 and 1939 (built to new 1938 regulations), had a supercharged 3L V12 that developed almost 550 horsepower.