What's Wrong With This Picture: I Like The Cut Of Your (Fifteen-Year-Old) Jib, Old Man Edition
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Jack Baruth
Published: January 18th, 2011
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This came to me tonight from my old pal “The Berg”, noted serial purchaser of old Bentley Turbos, bon vivant, and Jewish playboy extraordinaire.
I’m sure it was on a closed course, although I know Berg doesn’t hold a professional license. There’s a photo of the actual car after the jump, but for now, I just want to ask: Is there anything better in life than to pilot an authentic, made-in-England-by-an-English-company-owned-by-actual-English-people-from-England Bentley?
For my money, the answer is “no”. And the sheer majesty of these old Silver-Spirit-derived cars reveals the current Mulsanne for the crass, bulbous, offensive-looking pretender it so certainly is.
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Won't you spill less bubbly in your Ford Granada?
I think the author noted that these are two different cars. "There is a photo of the actual car after the jump..." would tell me that. Nevertheless, those cars will run 150mph all day long....you should feel their power/torque output. The car in the second photo will have a DIP (driver information panel) in-between the instruments, which will contain the gear selector legend, rather than the older, on-the-column style, as the first photo shows. The first photo is of a 20,000 series car while the second one is of a 50,000 series car. I know Berg had a 20,000 series car prior to the black one shown in the second photo, so I think the Author's point was to highlight the prowess of these Bentleys, both in the aesthetics department and the performance department.