SAC#1061 : Bentley 8 l with Lance Macklin

[Allan L]

Lance Macklin ?

I think you've got the driver!

[oko94]

I hope so 

[SACO]

Yes ! Bentley 8 l with Lance Macklin  !
1 point for oko94 ! 

[Allan L]

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):

and with Dudley Froy:


Not sure when this one is, but perhaps after the Schellenberg rebuild but before he painted it green

and this is how it looks now: