Join Shmee150 and Discover the Bentley Blower Continuation Series

Join ‪@Shmee150‬ and experience how we are recreating a legend.
In 2020, Mulliner Classic embarked on the first project in its Continuation Series. By combining the latest digital technology with time-honoured craft techniques, the team created a prototype of the first new Bentley Blower for close to 90 years - followed by a dozen new cars.
The team began work in earnest by sympathetically and carefully dismantling a priceless 1929 Bentley Team Blower. The aim was to catalogue and digitally scan each individual component, to create a complete digital model of this legendary car that could then be used as a blueprint for the new cars.
Yet even after creating their digital catalogue and, crucially, restoring the Team Blower to its original state, significant challenges remained - starting with the availability of parts. Components for a car built in the Roaring Twenties can’t just be ordered online, after all.
The team therefore made almost every part from scratch, in many cases using the original 1920s moulds and tooling jigs, to ensure they matched those in the original car exactly. They then assembled the first new coachbuilt Bentley Blowers to be built since the era of the Bentley Boys.
As direct descendants of the original Team Blower, each of the new Continuation Series cars featured four-cylinder, 16-valve engines with an aluminium crankcase, cast iron cylinder liners and non-detachable cast-iron cylinder heads. The all-important supercharger, meanwhile, is an exact replica of the Amherst Villiers Mk IV roots-type supercharger, helping the 4,398 cc engine to develop 240 bhp at 4,200 rpm.
Chapters:
0.00 - Intro
0.10 - An Original Bentley Blower
0.30 - Mulliner
1.15 - The History of the Bentley Blower
2.25 - The Assembly Line
6.11 - How to Drive the Bentley Blower
6.50 - Walkaround
7.30 - Thanks for Watching
#Bentley #Blower #Mulliner

[@doylehearne1164]

The most beautiful cars ever made!!!

[@scottballantine1329]

Fabulous access and insight.

[@choppermarc2342]

Thank you Bentley and Tim. The Blower is my dream car.

[@DavidB773]

Very interesting! It is a great opportunity to make new spare parts available to existing blowers; just as Aston Martin have done for the DB5.

[@jonathanraven5939]

The trouble is the current management at Bentley is not interested in keeping the older Bentley running.

[@sidrens1047]

Tim is incredible at memorising a car spec. and facts, then presenting it.

[@iainf6]

Absolutely stunning Tim ❤️

[@adeelm9028]

Absolutely beautiful, I hope to see one one day

[@petersampson5202]

DEAR SHMEE AND EVERYONE AT BENTLEY MOTORS, GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIENDS. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE BENTLEY MOTORS. I LOVE MR. ESPARZA AND ALL OF MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. 🌲🎅🎁🎅🌲🎁 SINCERELY PETER

[@craigrobertson7620]

A great look into the blower makeup and details, I’m really intrigued how s continuation blower could be driven on to road given it needs to pass todays mot

[@hellogoodbyestaysavage6283]

Here for the cheers

[@ClaireYunFarronXIII]

He's back. 🙌

[@rcmakingtracks18]

Just WOW. I want one...

[@traviis_04]

🔥🔥🔥

[@jonathanraven5939]

Absolutely awesome 😊

[@JT-nk8gv]

Tim the perfect ambassador for Bentley with his knowledge and industry experience

[@k4000]

very beautiful!

[@chrisnguyen3647]

Perfection ..

[@futte2303]

I Think MR. Buton need to have Bentley.

[@rockeroller]

I'm not too knowledgeable on this, but Bentley has picked up the lead from a man named Peterson, who is making Blower cars around original frames. How many people are making these?

[@doylehearne1164]

If you really want to see the Bentley Boys smile remake the Eight liter engine again!!!

[@ekspatriat]

Elephant in the room...How much?

[@para8746]

😍😍😍

[@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik]

Well done Bentley! Gents from Jaguar should consider E type...

[@AM.kashkal]

I want one for the old gentleman

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Very nice, but are they street legal? Originals would have many grandfathered exemptions ,but these are new cars. Or is that the reason there are only a few being continued ,because a larger production run would need modern compliance?

[@chrisel2286]

Euro 6 and the NCAP must have been a challenge...

[@haeloglobal5725]

Lookin for info on prices

[@rajahariharan]

Would’ve loved to see a modern take on the original design.

[@wearemonaco3201]

👍

[@charliewallace7197]

I don't understand how these could be road legal if they are essentially new cars completely out of step with modern regulations. Can someone who knows more about this fill me in?

[@augnkn93043]

The problem, as I understand it, is that they have brand new engines so they need to pass modern emissions. The rest of the car is probably ok so long as they cover sharp edges in foam. I don’t think these are ever intended to pass IVA and therefore go on the road. They are works of art that collectors will buy and not use.

[@GrandpaTig]

Looks fantastic, but also a major missed opportunity by sticking with the old pedal layout and the crash gearbox! 🤔

[@chrisel2286]

The crash gearbox separates le boys from the le mens...

[@paullacey2999]

Bentley scraping the bottom of the barrell now.....

[@EricBrettJones]

What a terrible presenter.

[@dj_alcatrazz]

🔥🔥🔥