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Bentley Blower Car Zero Reveal - The First New Bentley Blower For 90 Years
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2020
- ▪ Bentley Mulliner completes the first prototype for the Blower Continuation Series
▪ ‘Car Zero’ makes debut as first new Blower since 1930
▪ First example of world’s first pre-war continuation series
▪ Nearly 2,000 individually designed and hand-crafted parts
▪ 40,000 hours invested in the design and build of Car Zero
▪ Crafted entirely by hand from original drawings and tooling, using a team of in-house technicians and external British suppliers
▪ Data provided by laser-scanned, 3D CAD model of Bentley’s own 1929 4½-litre supercharged Team Car raced by Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin
▪ Car Zero to now begin an extensive test and durability programme - including a run to top speed
▪ 12 customer cars to follow - all pre-sold and specified
After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has today completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery of Car Zero - the prototype car for the Blower Continuation Series.
This highly exclusive run of 12 customer cars - all pre-sold - will be crafted from the design drawings and tooling jigs used for the original four Blowers built and raced by Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin in the late 1920s. Specifically, Bentley’s own Team Car (Chassis HB 3403, engine SM 3902, registration UU 5872 - Team Car #2) has provided the master model for the Continuation Series, with every single component laser-scanned as part of a wheels-up, sympathetic restoration.
From this data, 1,846 individual parts have been designed and hand-crafted to create the new Blower. 230 of those parts are actually assemblies - one of which being the engine - taking the total part count to several thousand when fixings and interior trim parts are included. Each of these parts and assemblies have been created by a project team of Bentley Mulliner engineers, craftspeople and technicians working together with a number of British specialists and suppliers.
Blower Car Zero is a dedicated test and development prototype, built in advance of the 12 customer cars, and will be subjected to months of durability and performance testing. Finished in gloss black, with an interior in Oxblood red leather from Bridge of Weir, Car Zero made its debut today to officially mark the creation of the new Bentley Motors campus in Crewe. Made possible by the closing of Pyms Lane - Bentley’s address since 1946 - the campus extends Bentley’s headquarters to a new expanded footprint.
The Blower Continuation Series is the first customer-facing project delivered by the new Bentley Mulliner Classic portfolio, one of three new divisions of Mulliner alongside Coachbuilt (currently developing the equally-exclusive Bacalar) and Collections (responsible for the Continental GT Mulliner).
Breathing New Life into an Iconic Engine
Car Zero’s brand new 4½-litre engine, originally designed by W.O Bentley himself, has been created with the expert support of specialists including NDR Ltd in Watford. Featuring many innovations of which a sports car engine of the 1970s would be proud - aluminium pistons, an overhead camshaft, four valves per cylinder and twin spark ignition - the renowned 4½-litre engine has been paired with a newly machined Amherst Villiers roots-type supercharger. The newly created Blower engine is an exact recreation of the engines that powered Tim Birkin’s four Team Blowers that raced in the late 1920s - including the use of magnesium for the crankcase.
While the first engine was being assembled, work was also underway to convert an engine testbed at Bentley’s Crewe headquarters to accept the nearly 100-year old engine design. The engine test facility has been at Bentley since the factory was built in 1938, and the cells were originally used to run-in and power-test Merlin V12 aero engines produced by the factory for the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters of WWII.
Preparing the test bed involved making a replica Blower front chassis to hold the engine, which could then be mounted to the computer-controlled engine dynamometer. A new software version to measure and control the engine was written and tested, allowing Bentley’s engineers to monitor and run the engine to precise parameters. As the Blower powertrain is considerably different in size and shape to Bentley’s modern production engines, a number of the original Merlin testbed fixtures - still in storage at Bentley - have been utilised to adapt the testbed to accommodate these special engines.
The Next Step
With the build of Car Zero now complete, a programme of real-world durability testing will begin. Sessions of gradually increasing duration and speed will check functionality and robustness under ever harder conditions. The test is designed to achieve the equivalent of 35,000 kilometres of real-world driving across 8,000 kilometres of track driving, and simulates the undertaking of famous rallies such as Peking to Paris and Mille Miglia. The testing will also see a particularly brave driver taking the car to its top speed - with Adrian Hallmark first in the queue.
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What a beautiful project! I wish I would have been part of the team
Absolutely stunning and all tribute to the craftsmen who undertook the work, 40,000 hours!! My home is Blakeney where Tim Birkin is buried and many many years ago (maybe late 70's) The Bentley Owners Club met there. I was lucky to be taken for a short drive in one of the original cars, memorable.
What a beauty
Was fortunate enough to see, and hear, 'Old Number 2' for myself yesterday at the factory (Friday 6th May 2022). What a piece of motoring and racing history...
Only in England could such an historic event take place. The entheauseasam of the team truly evident because without it, the original Bentley would have just remained a treasured part of classic motoring.🎉😊
Serious archival project - a true "digital twin".
A really wonderful project! In this day of computer controlled vehicles this stands out as an example of how good things used to be, the only problem her is the fuel we have today is not as good as in the 1930s, so I hope that has been taken into consideration. Well done, just make a few more now you have the tooling! Chris B.
Beautiful how much.😊
No offence but if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it - I Know, I owned 3 Aston Martins in my time, and I really could not afford to keep them but I had a great time owning them anyway (Wife reminded me the other day I really should not have had them, ) but you only live once, so what the hell!
@alanwhite6293 honestly I would like to know it. BTW I had a DB5 too many years ago, but had to sell it for a divorce. Today I'm more carful about cars and women, but maybe I could afford one. I think the problem is more to get it on the road. At least in Europe probably impossible (like pure sang)
I couldn't afford one. I'm not a pharmaceutical executive.
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Waste of time.
Back to Love Island TV and a kebab for you then.