Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: sjoormen on November 21, 2012, 01:55:55 pm

Title: Just another Bentley
Post by: sjoormen on November 21, 2012, 01:55:55 pm

Anyone knows any details about this.... lorry :-) ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LexFQfHGA4k&feature=fvwrel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LexFQfHGA4k&feature=fvwrel)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0u9iRTWyI&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0u9iRTWyI&feature=related)

Title: Re: Just another Bentley
Post by: FsASTSyd1 on November 21, 2012, 03:08:08 pm

Try this for a road test.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/8194036/Christmas-road-test-Packard-engined-Bentley.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/8194036/Christmas-road-test-Packard-engined-Bentley.html)

Title: Re: Just another Bentley
Post by: ardarossan on November 21, 2012, 03:32:42 pm

Quote from: FsASTSyd1 on November 21, 2012, 03:08:08 pm

Try this for a road test.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/8194036/Christmas-road-test-Packard-engined-Bentley.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/8194036/Christmas-road-test-Packard-engined-Bentley.html)

Errr, why? - That's the same piece of video as the first link in original post!

For anyone who hasn't clicked a link, it's a 'Brooklands'-style 8-litre Bentley, that has had a Packard 42 litre engine fitted to it (as found in many WWII MTB's and the Curtiss P-40).
If you look closely in the area where you would normally expect to see the running boards, there are a pair of dummy torpedos which are really the oil tanks.

Andy

Title: Re: Just another Bentley
Post by: john s 2 on November 21, 2012, 03:38:06 pm

Shows how strong the Bentley transmission is. They were called the worlds fastest lorries. John.

Title: Re: Just another Bentley
Post by: sjoormen on November 21, 2012, 04:20:20 pm

Thanks, I read road test it did answer few questions. This would be quite interesting to see in real. To drive- probably mission impossible {-)

Title: Re: Just another Bentley
Post by: Jonty on November 24, 2012, 12:28:11 am

  Great fun but, as usual, confusing Packard marine engines with Packard Merlin aero engines. And if he thought that was physical he should have tried a Group 2 Galaxie at 165mph through the Tolworth underpass - needed all three lanes!