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Somewhere between the last gasps of Britain's post-war industrial confidence and the dawning realisation that American V8 muscle had fundamentally redrawn the world's expectations of performance luxury, Bentley quietly laid a six-cylinder engine to rest. The straight-six that had powered the S1 - an engine whose
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If you wanted to buy a Bristol in 1966, the car didn't come to you - you came, by appointment, to the small showroom at Kensington High Street, where the proprietor Tony Crook might personally assess whether you were the sort of person deserving of one. That singular,
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Pop the bonnet of an XK150 S and you're confronted with something that doesn't quite belong in a road car: a cylinder head painted pumpkin orange, the same shade worn by units that spent their developmental years being tortured at racing circuits before being deemed sufficiently
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When Sir Leonard Lord announced on the sixth of August 1959 that Innocenti of Milan would build British Motor Corporation cars for the Italian market, he listed the Austin A40, the A55, and the Morris Oxford. He said nothing about the Mini - because as of that morning, the world
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Presented at the Olympia Motor Show in October 1929, the Bentley 6½-Litre Sedanca de Ville by H.J. Mulliner arrived at a peculiar intersection of two entirely different Bentleys - the one W.O. believed in and the one the aristocracy actually wanted to be seen in. It was