1 1920s BENTLEY SPEED SIX
Even the name is mighty – Speed Six. Perhaps it’s the glamour of those wild-living, free-spending ‘Bentley Boys’ who raced them, or maybe our devotion to Le Mans that gives a 1920s Bentley such resonance on these shores. After all, on the continent at that time there was true road racing, with Delage, Fiat and Alfa Romeo forging a path towards the pure grand prix car. Britain, though, hampered by a ban on road racing, was focused on the artificiality of Brooklands’ speed bowl, by now a racing cul-de-sac fostering thundering monsters at the expense of agility.
Yet there was one area where Britain would develop a perfect fit for the niche, high-performance touring
