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     Kevin Lagden Frequent User Username: kevin Post Number: 56 Registered: 7-2009 |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158616/Bentley-convertible-25-000-Well-turned-rhubarb-custard-station-wagon.html | ||
| Brian Crump Prolific User Username: brian_crump Post Number: 108 Registered: 2-2007 |
Certainly beats plain silver. I would find this very useful for driving the dogs to shows.  Regards, Brian | ||
| Brian Vogel Frequent User Username: guyslp Post Number: 81 Registered: 6-2009 |
Not I, that's for sure. With the amount of work that appears to have gone into making this conversion you'd think they would have adjusted the rear door window arrangement slightly to create a visual flow. As it is it just looks wrong. Brian | ||
| Kevin Lagden Frequent User Username: kevin Post Number: 57 Registered: 7-2009 |
Plaiin silver, how dare you Brian, how very dare you! No offence taken of course | ||
| Brian Crump Prolific User Username: brian_crump Post Number: 109 Registered: 2-2007 |
Well Kevin, I own a plain silver, a plain green, a plain red x 2 and a plain brown...how plain is that? I would love the yellow over rhubarb. Certainly the concept of a Bentley Wagon would be useful in my case - even if the C pillar area does not segue as beatifully as it might. Regards, Brian | ||
| Colin Silver Prolific User Username: colsilver Post Number: 139 Registered: 8-2008 |
If I could get it to Aust for a cheap price - I'd buy it. Love the looks. Does Milford make a cargo barrier for this wagon? | ||
| Jan Forrest Grand Master Username: got_one Post Number: 342 Registered: 1-2008 |
Paint it black, stick a coffin in the back and HEY PRESTO! You're on to a nice little earner. | ||
| James Feller Prolific User Username: james_feller Post Number: 193 Registered: 5-2008 |
I dare say being an old 82 Mulsanne Turbo, it would look better with the original front and rear bumpers, original wheel trims and of course without that insane extention. Nothing would help the unfortunate colour combination....Im surprised its not an Arab car...and shocked that someone would have ordered such a dreadful colour combination. I think the "val des ere' estate conversions done in the late 80's early 90's, while awful too lets not forget that, are much better balanced than this horrible abomination. Pity really as its condition apart from the modifications, seems brillant. | ||
| Jan Forrest Grand Master Username: got_one Post Number: 345 Registered: 1-2008 |
I must be getting old! It's taken all this time to recall that in the late 80's there was a similar conversion - albeit in more restrained colouration - driving around on local roads. Unfortunately even back then it was suffering from almost terminal tinworm and may have succumbed to it long ago. At the time there was a rumour that it was the only one that Crewe had built as an experiment that was quietly dropped before going into general production. Unlikely, I know, but ... However would this one be more to your tastes? | ||
| James Feller Prolific User Username: james_feller Post Number: 194 Registered: 5-2008 |
Haha better Jan, better. However I remember now it was Robert Jankel Designs that did the Estate 'conversions'. If you go to 'Bentley SPotting' there are some very good photos of real examples he did convert. Now some of the colour choices are clearly outrageously awful however I stand by my comments that these Jankel design ' Val Des ere' estates are a much better looking estate than that dreadful thing in the Channel Islands but all in all....I keep asking why do that at all to a Crewe car? if you want a designer station wagon buy a bloody Range Rover and be done with it. | ||
| Jan Forrest Grand Master Username: got_one Post Number: 346 Registered: 1-2008 |
In the same vein I have often lusted after one of these. I've owned a series of Jags including the V12 XJS, but it had to go once it became incompatible with my business needs. If it had been a 'Lynx Eventer' I might still have it. It was so smooth and deceptively fast that neither my wife and mother ever noticed that we were often skating down the motorway at significantly over a ton! Once (solo) at well over the legal speed limit a rear tyre blew out and ripped the inner and outer wings to shreds and yet there was no loss of control so that I was able to casually coast to a halt on the hard shoulder. It was the drivers of the two following cars that were shaking when they pulled up behind me! |
