Meeting the rellies: we take our Bentley Flying Spur daily driver to say hello to its 1950s namesake. Join thebenpulman for the full story ⤵️
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Bentley has an original Flying Spur – which is fortuitous, because I don't know anyone who actually owns any Bentley, let alone one from the '50s. It resides on the company's heritage fleet, which has limos from the Arnage, through the Mulsanne, to the VW Group-era Flying Spurs, while at the other end there are vast touring machines from the first half of the 20th century.
It's now turned 70 years since Bentley established its own design department in Crewe. The first car penned back in 1951 was the R-Type Continental, while its successor – the car we're here to drive – was designed in '55. I was minus 30 years old and the styling department brought their ideas to life as hand-painted watercolour artworks, before scale and technical drawings followed, and then 3D wax models.
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