This...

[Oilchange]

just conked out on the road in front of my house.










Apparently its a 30's chassis with a 40's body, fully restored and I mean like new and a 6.5 litre straight 8cyl engine.
He was a bit too busy trying to un-flood it to say much else...

Edited by Oilchange on Thursday 13th August 15:52

[burnunit]

Very very nice

[HiRich]

Have you offered him a cup of tea yet?

[austin]

God he looks pissed off!

[Oilchange]

Offered him the use of a phone (he had one anyway, who doesn't) and a battery charger if he needed it but he was a bit pre occupied trying to start it. It was cranking over for what seemed like ages so I thought his battery might take a big hit.

He said it was running on 5 cylinders or so until it had de flooded itself or something. He's gone now anyway.

When it did run it sounded quite unique, especially with that Blunderbuss exhaust!

[crankedup]

His not attempting to crank start on the handle then looks like the car is so smart its just been rebuilt and on a shakedown run. Would I want one - yes please.

[Oilchange]

I don't know much about these things but cranking a 6.5 litre engine would be a feat of strength I'd imagine

[Mark-C]

That exhaust .... just brilliant

And the rest is rather nice as well!

[davepen]

Looks like one of the Petersen cars... although they do more period looking bodies.
http://www.bobpetersenengineering.co.uk/aboutus.ht...

[guru_1071]

first registered in 1947, so its a post war chassied special (a mark 6 i guess), but modded up to look like a w.o bentley

it will probably have the post war 6 litre engine in it. (which are 6 cyl, i think the 8 cylinder was the 'b80' type which is the big fire truck motor)

Edited by guru_1071 on Thursday 13th August 17:19

[Oilchange]

chap said a straight 8, I was a little surprised at this, never heard of one

[hot metal]

That is beautiful I WANT I WANT

[friederich]

I just don't understand the appeal of these things.

It's a fake WO Bentley look-alike made from later Rolls-Bentley bits. I don't doubt that the craftsmanship is excellent, but they cost not far short of a WO original. What's the point??

[E31Shrew]

Typical chav exhaust..Probably on the way to the Tescos car park meet

[Oilchange]

[RW774]

That looks very much like a Bob Petersen special,who is around the Bedford/ Northampton area. His cars are based on Mk6 chassis, it certainly has a later steering wheel . The 8 cylinder engine is a generator/ crane/ military application unit, readily available for around 5k . Still looks great though

[garethj]

Oilchange said:

When it did run it sounded quite unique, especially with that Blunderbuss exhaust!

I think the fishtail exhaust was brought in to reduce the noise as they were racing around Brooklands. It reduced the power a bit but was quieter. I'd take it off

[eccles]

friederich said:

I just don't understand the appeal of these things.

It's a fake WO Bentley look-alike made from later Rolls-Bentley bits. I don't doubt that the craftsmanship is excellent, but they cost not far short of a WO original. What's the point??

I have to agree, not really my cup of tea at all.

[Oilchange]

this is the right forum to post a thread about a classic car though, yes?

[RichB]

Oilchange said:

this is the right forum to post a thread about a classic car though, yes?

Of course it is...

I guess some poeple would consider it even more classic if it still looked like this

Edited by RichB on Friday 14th August 20:41