Founder of his eponymous marque WO Bentley was born on this day in 1888. His personal car, this Mulliner saloon – a favourite for high-speed trips to France – was eventually returned to its maker. In today's Great Read, Motor Sport was granted an audience before its restoration
Heritage. We've been going on about it in Motor Sport for years, and now the rest of the world is catching up. Ferrari used to chop up its old racing cars; now they are carefully slid into the Cliente Corsa programme to please fortunate owners and spectators.
It's more difficult if you are buying in. Consider what are arguably the two greatest British marques: Rolls-Royce, purchased by BMW, a firm with a fine history of its own; or Bentley, almost mythical as regards its vintage years, but sadly devalued in later decades and a challenge for Volkswagen. From somewhere these companies, German both, had to extract or contrive an essence of Britishness which spoke to what we think we feel about both badges...
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