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Title: SAC#1061 : Bentley 8 l with Lance Macklin
Post by: SACO on November 29, 2015, 01:51:48 AM
What's this, and what is the name of the driver , for 1 point ?  :)
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Post by: SACO on December 05, 2015, 05:13:00 AM
Experts !
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Post by: frederick59 on December 05, 2015, 05:44:16 AM
Diesel powered?
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Post by: SACO on December 05, 2015, 07:30:06 AM
Not Diesel powered !
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Post by: SACO on December 18, 2015, 02:15:03 AM
Pros !
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Post by: nicanary on December 18, 2015, 04:54:08 AM
American-engined?
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Post by: mekubb on December 18, 2015, 06:27:53 AM
French ?
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Post by: SACO on December 18, 2015, 08:24:17 AM
Not American-engined , and not French !
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Post by: Allan L on December 18, 2015, 01:39:25 PM
It looks quite big and I'd guess some Alvis connection.
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Post by: SACO on December 18, 2015, 01:48:32 PM
Not an Alvis !
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Post by: nicanary on December 18, 2015, 03:03:18 PM
It's a big car alright. If it's not American, how about the next best thing. Holden powered?
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Post by: SACO on December 19, 2015, 01:55:43 AM
Not Holden powered !
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Post by: mekubb on December 19, 2015, 04:48:10 AM
Italian ?
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Post by: Iluvatar on December 19, 2015, 09:57:02 AM
Maybe some kind of Fiat 2800 Sport?
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Post by: SACO on December 19, 2015, 10:15:03 AM
Not Italian !
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Post by: nicanary on December 19, 2015, 11:01:10 AM
British?
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Post by: SACO on December 19, 2015, 01:49:06 PM
Yes !
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Post by: nicanary on December 19, 2015, 01:51:16 PM
Lagonda?
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Post by: Allan L on December 19, 2015, 06:23:09 PM
Bentley?
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Post by: SACO on December 20, 2015, 02:35:25 AM
Yes ! Bentley !
Locked for Allan L !
Who is the driver ? ( made unfortunately famous in France ! )
Title: Re: SAC#1061 : Locked
Post by: Allan L on December 20, 2015, 04:41:33 AM
How embarrassing!
Perhaps the driver is "Pierre Levegh" who is perhaps the most unfortunately famous in France, but I can't find that he drove a Bentley special.
Three Bentley specials come to mind, the Barnato-Hassan, the Pacey-Hassan and the Marker.
I think it's the Barnato-Hassan in an early version.
This is not the same, but similar apart from the front.
(http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/photos-racing/55.jpg)
Title: Re: SAC#1061 : Locked
Post by: SACO on December 20, 2015, 07:55:51 AM
Not that ! but it is necessary to look around Pierre Levegh !
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Post by: Allan L on December 21, 2015, 03:56:34 AM
I'm not getting anywhere, so please unlock and let the others have a go.
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Post by: SACO on December 22, 2015, 07:41:11 AM
Unlocked !
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Post by: oko94 on December 22, 2015, 08:09:17 AM
Lance Macklin ?
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Post by: Allan L on December 22, 2015, 09:09:15 AM
Quote from: oko94 on December 22, 2015, 08:09:17 AM
Lance Macklin ?
I think you've got the driver!
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Post by: oko94 on December 22, 2015, 09:37:37 AM
I hope so  ;D
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Post by: SACO on December 23, 2015, 02:11:07 AM
Yes ! Bentley 8 l with Lance Macklin  !
1 point for oko94 !  :)
Title: Re: SAC#1061 : Bentley 8 l with Lance Macklin
Post by: Allan L on December 23, 2015, 04:42:11 AM
After oko94 posted Lance Macklin I had another look and he co-drove Ian Metcalfe's Bentley at Spa in 1949.
That Bentley was the Barnato-Hassan special in a two-seat version which either was or became what was known as "the whale". Keith Schellenberg owned it and returned it to its single-seater form which it still has.
Here it is in its early form (with Oliver Bertram at the wheel):
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/karinos200/2008/barnato_clip_image020.jpg)
and with Dudley Froy:
(http://www.thoroughbred-cars.com/cars/UK/Bentley/images/13.jpg)

Not sure when this one is, but perhaps after the Schellenberg rebuild but before he painted it green
(http://www.denisjohnsonfilmslibrary.weonea.com/images/0157708001364140779.jpg)
and this is how it looks now: