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30/06/2025 1:22 pm
To get the edge on Rolls Royce, W.O. Bentley, in 1928, he took their 4 1/2 liter OHC 6 and and bored it out to 6 1/2 liters mainly because he refused to consider a supercharger which wouldn't appear until after Bentley was booted out of his own company. So, this was the birth of the iconic "Speed 6" chassis that was bodied by various coachbuilders to include drop top Le Mans race cars. The most famous of his Speed 6 gallery were the massive chopped topped Coupes that included the 1930 Gurney-Nutting "Blue Train" and this brownish-maroon 1930 Corsica bodied coupe. The convoluted story of the "Blue Train" coupe beating the French high speed train turned out to probably be a myth with the driver/owner actually using a similar saloon bodied Speed Six. I love these coupes for their brutish elegance that just seemed to be looking for a fight. First, the "Blue Train" by Minichamps:
Now the Speed Six Corsica coupe.
30/06/2025 1:32 pm
Imposing & intimating even today; I can't begin to imagine how impactful they surely must have been almost 100 years ago! 😬 😬
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30/06/2025 6:20 pm
@paul-rouffa It's a Minichamps curbside.
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30/06/2025 7:04 pm
BTW: This is the Speed Six H.J. Mulliner saloon that actually beat the Blue Train.
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