earleygallery Posted August 1, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 1, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Took this on the way to the Grenadier to meet William, Ron et al. I forgot to mention it and we spent some time talking about cars! LC5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 Hi earleygallery, Take a look here Bentley Continental (near the Grenadier). I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
vic vic Posted August 1, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 1, 2006 ha ha - what a car!!! we had a few of bentlies here in israel in londo-jerusalem tour. this is not my fave type of cars, i love lotus elise, tvr and prosche cars, but, it is so inspiring to look at bently cars. - the great britain. something royal to them. great pic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinetar Posted August 1, 2006 Share #3 Posted August 1, 2006 I was the high bidder on such a model, even though it was a rough redo. It was so inspiring, they just felt it was worth more money, not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted August 2, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 2, 2006 James, lovely car, I much prefer its subtler lines to the modern Conti. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted August 2, 2006 Share #5 Posted August 2, 2006 Only trouble was, the side profile was elegant but the car was too narrow and looked squeezed from the front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambroving Posted August 2, 2006 Share #6 Posted August 2, 2006 Brother James, Interesting! Belgravia is just loaded with wall-to-wall cars like this and even rarer, but I can't imagine how you got such a clear shot. Nice framing. Contrast seems a bit low. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uulrich Posted August 13, 2006 Share #7 Posted August 13, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Terrific car. A beauty. What makes this photograph is that you hardly can make out when it was. If there weren't white lines it could have been well in the fifties. Great shot. Nice time capsule. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 13, 2006 Share #8 Posted August 13, 2006 If you had waited ten minutes, Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland would have come out of #50 and driven off! Nice to see one in such appropriate surroundings. I'm fairly certain that this one is a daily driver and commutes up the M4 at the speed which it was intended for, could be wrong, even I don't know all of these beauties . As for the modern Conti GT; I've racked up a lot of miles in them and still find it hard to fault; anyone seen the video of one doing 205 mph round NARDO with four up? Cheers, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted August 14, 2006 Share #9 Posted August 14, 2006 James, a great shot of one of my favouite Bentlys in its home environment Pete - I haven't seen the video but I once did 150mph+ round a banked track in an Audi, as a passenger of Roger Clark, who had no hands on the wheel and his reading glasses on !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share #10 Posted August 14, 2006 Thanks for the comments. William is right the contrast is a tad low here. I was drawn by the timelessness of the scene and being a quite road I was able to get a shot with little else to reference the date by. If I hadn't have been running late I would have taken a few more, although the owner probably lives in the road so I guess I could return. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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