Barn Kept

A little photo essay from the barn. Some nice fall light and the camera was charged up.

The only true barn find in the bunch is the old wrench that I found in the barn we live in and that I used as a stop for the door lock. 

Blower Bentley Racing Prowess

I don't think I ever really get into the history of why Bentley developed a Blower in the first place. Not important to the story. Besides, the missing Blower SM 3912 was not fitted with a racing body. It had a two-seater Phillips drop head coupe body fitted. But, besides the point. Even in the '30s the consumer buyers of cars wanted to have as close to the racing version of a car as possible.

So, with that in mind, I've got a link to a bit of history on the characters who started the whole supercharged Bentley thing. Lots of it do with a Tim Birkin, who loved the Blown cars and used one to raise the Brooklands lap record to nearly 138MPH in 1932! Egads it must have been a ride going near to the top speed of a Porsche 944 in fancy tractor.

Check out the story at www.bentleygreenpower.com.

Hunt for 901, the Porsche novel trailer.

The adventure continues.

Secret Faston Horde Additional Pics

These are some pics of the horde of early, long hood 911s that appeared in Total 911 magazine.

The mag can't fit all the pics, so these are ones of a corner that they did not show. My oh my. The colors. The variety. The potential.