PERSONAL CHOICE
1954 BENTLEY R-TYPE
OWNER: NIGEL LAWFORD, DERBYSHIRE
My very first vehicle was acquired back in the 1970s, a Ford Anglia van that had the dubious distinction of costing considerably less than my father’s new lawn mower. Their top speeds were about the same, and yet that van opened up a whole new world to me as an eighteen-year-old. There followed a succession of varied and, some might say, esoteric choices, which included a Citroen Dyane, a Triumph 1500, a Lancia Fulvia, a series of Golf GTIs, Alfa Romeo GTVs and eventually a couple of Maseratis. However, it’s taken nearly fifty years for me to discover the very special world of Bentley, initially in the form of a 1997 long-wheelbase Turbo R.
This was just the start. Perhaps a combination of advancing years and an acceptance of a slower pace of life has drawn me back to a
