Bought my old Bentley back :)

Bought my old Bentley back :)

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POORCARDEALER

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8,542 posts

248 months

Friday 26th May 2006
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Well have been without a Bentley for 3 months and a customer offered me back the car I sold him 12 months ago, so I bought it back!! He has kindly fitted four new tyres, a road angel and bluetooth, unfortunatly it wasnt full of fuel!!!


Great to be back

Balmoral Green

41,749 posts

255 months

Friday 26th May 2006
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Great!

What I like to do with mine, is just sit in it in the garage, with a generous glass of a good single malt, some music on the sound system (something classical but with attitude and power) and take in the smell, the tactility, the ambience of it all.

Fantastic cars.

Wagner and Bentleys though, slippery slope

POORCARDEALER

Original Poster:

8,542 posts

248 months

Friday 26th May 2006
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Very slippery!!!

granville

18,764 posts

268 months

Saturday 27th May 2006
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Balmoral Green said:
Great!

What I like to do with mine, is just sit in it in the garage, with a generous glass of a good single malt, some music on the sound system (something classical but with attitude and power) and take in the smell, the tactility, the ambience of it all.

Fantastic cars.

Wagner and Bentleys though, slippery slope


Ballers, you actually deserve your vehicle, they are so much more than mere transports.

I remember when Broughtons lent me a Brooklands before the RT turned up and I spent several delightful weeks lapping up the ambience.

Everything from the exquisite match of those highly polished veneers and yes, the unmistakable whiff of empire-in-hide, through to the glorious but just-subdued-enough thrum of distant, hurculean forces hurling you towards the cossack hoardes.

The Arnage looked like a hopeless gimp next to the Doric majesty of the 3 box design.

I just wish they'd allowed the engine boys at Crewe full vent with the 6.75 litre lump*: it always needed 700bhp.

* I believe they are indeed revitalising the Azure model by virtue of yet more tinkerage of the venerable block...

>> Edited by derestrictor on Saturday 27th May 09:47

Balmoral Green

41,749 posts

255 months

Saturday 27th May 2006
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derestrictor said:
I just wish they'd allowed the engine boys at Crewe full vent with the 6.75 litre lump*: it always needed 700bhp.
Watch this space.

I had plans and a budget in place for something along these lines, but running out of talent at MIRA unfortunately sidelined the funds.

In a couple of years when my wallet has recovered though...

granville

18,764 posts

268 months

Saturday 27th May 2006
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Mate,

From memory, the men in brown overalls were most reticent to even entertain discussions about engine mods, something that seemed odd when Aston Martin have always made much od their own 'Works' dept.

Contradictory, too since as I've mentioned before, there was mention made of "a flying Italian," one of these impossibly affluent eurowhores who bought "several at a time" every so often and for whom, holy levels of power were indeed deemed suitable to impart - how does 650bhp sound for a Continental (the non VW car?)

What's the mishap of which you speak, btw?

Balmoral Green

41,749 posts

255 months

Saturday 27th May 2006
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derestrictor said:
What's the mishap of which you speak, btw?

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=178640&f=23&h=0

w1how

1,502 posts

222 months

Friday 30th June 2006
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Can relate to this.I sold my rolls last year and bought a nearly new 911 to replace it for a bit of a change.Sorry I did now and Im fed up of the 911 already.When secondhand Phantoms come down to the £130k bracket I will probably have a go at one and keep it forever!