An
Airfix Bentley Blower
4.5 Litre . For some reason this car appeals to me. I even
saw a real one once at the Collier Car Museum in Naples
(wish I had taken photos ! )
I
have collected a magazine about the car, and a post card for
reference.
There's
a larger scale kit also of this car, in 1/12. Someday I hope
to get one of those. Also I believe Airfix makes a 1/32 scale
kit.
Rolls
Royce.
Here
below is a picture of the 1:12 scale Airfix Bentley Blower.
Sports
Racing Cars: Expert Analysis Of Fifty Motor Racing Greats-
Anthony Pritchard’s authoritative book describes 50 iconic
cars from the history of sports car racing, from the 1923
Lorraine-Dietrich through to the 2003 Bentley Speed 8. As the
extraordinary annual British (Bentley?) pilgrimage to Le Mans
demonstrates, sports car racing has myriad enthusiastic fans who
will relish the blend of meticulous research, informed analysis,
dramatic photographs, and cutaway diagrams.
Powered
by Jaguar: The Cooper, HWM, Lister & Tojeiro Sports-Racing
Cars -This book became the standard reference work when the
original edition was published in 1980, but his expanded edition
digs much deeper into hitherto hazy background of some of the
most famous cars. Deep research bentley by the author has unraveled
many mysteries of ownership. Nye devotes separate chapters to
the cars of Cooper, HWM, Lister, and Tojeiro and includes track
tests of an example of each by the late John Bolster, famed technical
journalist with Autosport and a one-time Formula 1 driver.
Driven:
The Motorsport Photography of Jesse Alexander, 1954-1962 -Driven
collects the best of internationally acclaimed racecar photographer
Jesse Alexander's work taken between 1954-1962, the height of
the golden age of the European
Grand Prix. During the pinnacle of continental glamour, Alexander
took his camera throughout Europe, following this intimate group
of fearless racecar drivers from Grand Prix to Mille Miglia, and
capturing their heroic wins and narrow defeats. In one photograph
Jackie Stewart accepts the Grand Prix trophy cup from Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace. Alexander's images hum with an energy and
seduction second only to the sleek bodies and powerful engines
of these now vintage Maseratis, Mercedes, Ferraris, and Porsches.
His captions describe the blower renegade adventures, dangerous
courses, and technological breakthroughs of the time
