What's Wrong With This Picture: I Like The Cut Of Your (Fifteen-Year-Old) Jib, Old Man Edition

by Jack Baruth

Published: January 18th, 2011

what s wrong with this picture i like the cut of your fifteen year old jib old

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.

Jack Baruth

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Obbop on Jan 19, 2011

Won't you spill less bubbly in your Ford Granada?

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ASRkillswitch on Jan 20, 2011

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.

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