Back in September 2019, British carmaker Bentley gave its Mulliner division a new mission: Build 12 reproduction models of Bentley’s iconic Blower, a vehicle of which is undoubtedly one of the brand’s most famous pre-WW2 era racing car.
The first original Blower was built in 1929 by Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin (or Tim Birkin to his peers and the rest of the 1930s Bentley Boys) to rival the supercharged Mercedes SSK racing cars at Le Mans. The top brass at Bentley vehemently resisted the idea of forced-induction and preferred to build larger motors, instead. However, Sir Tim Birkin was not to be denied.
In the end, Birkin managed to build a working Blower prototype with 240 horsepower, which is almost double the output of the naturally-aspirated model.
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