STAFF CLASSICS

Bentley Turbo R

Paul Wager

The last update on our Turbo R was a couple of issues ago but readers who were assuming that our brave decision to buy a 30-year-old Bentley unseen had turned out to be calamitous may well be disappointed.

In our last instalment, we’d been stranded by an embarrassingly simple problem in the shape of a shredded alternator belt – a simple roadside fix needing only a 17mm spanner if only you had the part to hand, which we didn’t. With the car duly recovered and a new belt fitted, it’s been pressed into regular service and one of its first trips was to the workshops of respected Rolls/Bentley specialist Nigel Sandell where the Bentley was given the professional inspection a sensible buyer would have done before parting with the cash.

Before tackling the M4 though, we needed to replace the Pirelli Scorpion tyres which