ATTEN: Rich - "All aboard the Blue Train!"

What an imposing style this car possesses; I love the roofline in particular.

Great video. Thanks Chris

Thought I would add a bit about the Blue Train reference.

On Thursday the 13^th of March in 1930, at 6 p.m., Woolf Barnato, Chairman of Bentley Motors, and his secretary, Dale Bourne, left the Carlton Bar in Cannes, and got into Barnato’s Speed Six Bentley to see if they could get to London before the famous Blue Train. Driving through the night, they reached Boulogne at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, catching the 11:35 boat to Folkestone. Arriving there just after 1 p.m., they reached the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall at 3:30, 15 minutes before the Blue Train pulled into Calais. Of the 786-mile drive, Barnato said later that “Any woman could have done the same thing without discomfort,” and indeed they probably could, in a Speed Six Bentley. But which Speed Six Bentley?

For many years now, it has been universally believed that Barnato drove his Gurney Nutting coupé, a fabulously flamboyant Grand Touring three-seater with rakish helmet wings, the third seat fitted sidesaddle beneath a sloping roof, the whole ensemble finished off by a pair of huge Zeiss headlamps to the front, a long, louvred panel along both sides of the chassis and a neat trunk to the rear of the body (chassis HM2855, registered GJ3811).

So it came as a huge surprise to find that, despite its immortalization in a painting by the well-known motoring artist Terence Cuneo, Barnato could not have driven this car in March of 1930, because it hadn’t even been built at the time.

Here is the actual car that raced the Blue Train.

Here is the Bentley Blue Train model in 1/43 by Western Models. It is the car shown in the famous picture but was built for Woolf Barnato later.

Posted by: @david-green

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Barnato could not have driven this car in March of 1930, because it hadn’t even been built at the time.

...yes, something that Jay alludes to in that video.  Interesting history (obviously ) on both cars.   Thanks David, for the info & pics.

Magnificent car - LOVE Bentley's!! Thanks for the great video Chris and thanks for the additional info David! 

@perrone1 I didn't know ANYTHING about this magnificent car OR the 1/18 Minichamps  replica Rich has featured from time to time until he posted pics & info.   Sadly, I passed on that model when it was "peanuts"  (because I just didn't know... 🙄 🙄 🙄)

Now I know.... but that model is no longer peanuts...    😔 😔 😔 

@david-green Thanks for the real story David. I have the Western model and the 1/18 scale. Always loved the roof line.

Posted by: @bob-jackman

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"....and the 1/18 scale."

Lucky you! 😎