This summer’s Silverstone Classic will celebrate Bentley’s 100th birthday with a very special anniversary race dedicated to honoring the illustrious British...
As Bentley enters its Centenary year, the oldest remaining and first racing model – EXP 2 – will be displayed...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses for the British police and was the founder, president or vice-president of some of the UK’s most prominent motoring and racing organizations. And he kept up that pace until he...
Gentleman Heroes – YU 3250 The first Blower Bentley and the men who made it happen By Giles Chapman &...
The arrival of every new year heralds a raft of exciting anniversaries and, in the car world, 2019 is crammed...
Once upon a time in a bar…well, near a bar…I was talking to a couple who had just bought a new Bentley, a name so famous in motor racing circles that even I, not normally given to huge enthusiasm for motorway cruisers, started asking questions about the technical specs. “Actually,”...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance blazes a new trail in 2019 as it relocates to Tyler Perry Studios in downtown Atlanta—growing...
The 24th Annual Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance, benefiting Today’s Harbor for Children, formerly known as The Boys & Girls...
Goodwood has announced that an all-new race for pre-1930 vintage racing cars, the John Duff Trophy, will make its debut at the 77th Members’ Meeting. An inductee of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, and one of the first ‘Bentley Boys’, John Duff was not only the first Canadian to...
Following the news of the sole surviving 8-Liter Bentley Saloon by Vanden Plas being scheduled for auction, a pair of...
Shooting-brake: A conveyance used to carry shooting parties with their large supply of firearms, cartridges, provisions, dogs and game. It...
RM Auctions returned to Florida last weekend, April 6-7, for the company’s 16th annual Fort Lauderdale sale, where a total of $19.1 million in total sales was achieved, with a strong 76 percent sell-through rate. The total tops the sale’s 2017 performance, notably with a smaller, higher-quality offering of 335...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as vintage racecars and their drivers braved grey and sometimes snowy conditions to open their 2018 historic racing season. In addition to the 11 featured “Cup” races, fans were also treated...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland,...
More than 1,100 classic vehicles and more than 5,600 people assembled at Brooklands Museum to celebrate its annual New Year’s...
The 2017 Benjafield’s 500 was staged 17 October at the Ascari Race Circuit in Malaga, Spain. The diverse grid of 27 vintage cars included 1932 Alvis Speed 20 SA, 1931 Talbot 105 Team Car and the famous ‘Number 10’ factory Bentley racer from 1925. The Benjafield’s 500 is a 500-mile...
China’s third YanQi Island Concours d’Elegance, held in the Huairou District near Beijing, presented 38 top-level historic vehicles and 14...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
The Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Blue Train Challenge reached a dramatic conclusion in Cannes as the Cadillac that had been...
RM Sotheby’s 11th annual auction at Battersea Evolution in London generated £7,064,475 (US$9,308,461) in total sales with many of the...
In last week’s item about the Bentley Drivers Club’s August 5 outing at Silverstone, we apparently misinterpreted the results and discussed two separate races running coincidentally as a single race with two classes. The fourth paragraph of last week’s item should thus have read: The BDC celebrated victories for several...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
La Leggenda di Bassano is a historic racing event on the calendars of the FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Vèhicules Anciens) and the ASI (Automotoclub Storico Italiano) that is unique because it is run for Sport-Barchetta racing cars built until 1960. This year’s event, held over the weekend of June 22-25,...
Warm and windy weather welcomed a weekend of wings and wheels at the Flywheel Festival, Bicester Heritage, held at the...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category....
William Medcalf Vintage Bentley celebrated another successful Drive Out on Saturday 8 April 2017. The West Sussex showroom and workshop welcomed a mix of vintage, classic, sports and supercars. Under blue skies and sunshine, all available parking at William Medcalf Vintage Bentley was filled with a plethora of interesting machinery....
