V-16 Bentley

Barrie Warrener · Post by **Barrie Warrener** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:47 pm

http://www.victorycars.com/inventory_de ... ryNum=1262

Post by **Paul Spencer** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:48 pm

It's been around for a while and not sold. Presumably that is why they are now trying in Europe.

John Murch · Post by **John Murch** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:48 am

I'm not sure how it is a Bentley, it has a RR 20/25 chassis and two RR 8cyl engines stitched together to make a 16.
I believe the body may have come off a Derby car.
As an engineering achievement, very clever, I wonder if they ever got it to run well? The weight distribution might be interesting!
John

Post by **Paul Spencer** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:02 am

In my opinion, this is unlikely to be registerable with a period number in the UK, so would need an IVA and a Q plate. Except it would probably fail the IVA.

Christopher Carnley · Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:14 am

B160 EXP1.

Stephen Blakey · Post by **Stephen Blakey** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:09 pm

This car was the subject of a feature in the BDC Review quite a while ago. I'll see if I can find a reference and revert.

Christopher Carnley · Post by **Christopher Carnley** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:50 am

A feature in "Recycling Monthly"?

Barrie Warrener · Post by **Barrie Warrener** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:40 pm

Stephen Blakey wrote:This car was the subject of a feature in the BDC Review quite a while ago. I'll see if I can find a reference and revert.

That would be interesting. Hopefully it will include some driving experiences as well as the technical details of the conversion.
So often these giants can't actually perform.