[ROVERNET - UK] Re: [ROVERNET - Blue Train Bentley

Thu Apr 3 05:27:07 BST 2008

James
I Just googled Blue train Bentley . The first hit was  ultimate car page .com which gives several great pictures of the car . It's a 
real mean looking British Racing Green machine !
Bugatti once said " Monsieur Bentley builds the world's fastest lorries[ trucks ] " these pictures prove the point !
Cheers
 Patrick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Dean" <jaguru at bellsouth.net>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: [ROVERNET - Blue Train Bentley


> At some future time, I would love to have that"Blue Train Bentley" painting reproduced as a wall mural on a building.Does anyone 
> have a link to a good illustration I can print and file away- ?- Also, an article telling the story? I believe it was Wolf Barnato 
> racing the blue train from Paris to Calais; probably a drinking bet that has become legend.. Thank you, James Dean--- Original 
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> From: "Glen Wilson" <rovercar at comcast.net>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Rover Restorations
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>> Reverend Weasel wrote:
>>> Glen, that Blue Train Rover was actually a Bentley, you know.
>>>
>>
>> Whoops! I was just going by the advertisement from 1930 reproduced on page 22 in the Daniel Young book on Rover Advertising. It's 
>> a Castrol ad. Did the Bentley do it first or something?
>>
>> I guess the car I would like to buy would be a 1935 Rover Speed 14 Streamline Coupe, and I bet I'd still get lots of change back 
>> from my $100k. That was the sort of car that was pictured in my brain. Did the Bentley look like one of these? I can picture 
>> another old ad about the Blue Train, but maybe that was a Bentley ad.
>>
>> Glen
>>> On 01/04/2008, Glen Wilson <rovercar at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill,
>>>>
>>>>  I guess that goes beyond "cost is no object" to "please help me launder
>>>> this money."
>>>>
>>>>  Eh? Think the Feds would be interested in this story?     ;-)
>>>>
>>>>  I guess I'm out of the mainstream, but I've had $3,000-5,000 cars that I
>>>> thought were really nice and lots of fun, to say nothing of having actually
>>>> been painted, upholstered and assembled by Rover Company employees. They
>>>> also had the patina and character that come from being used.
>>>>
>>>>  If I paid someone a huge amount of money to RESTORE a P6 for me, I'd have
>>>> them paint the engine compartment black like Rover did and I'd like nice
>>>> leather seating surfaces like the cars that came out of the factory (and I
>>>> could probably do without those screws holding the seat backs on).
>>>>
>>>>  Otherwise, I'd go the RESTOMOD route, slap some flares on it, throw away
>>>> the bumpers and add beastly side pipes. That would actually be a lot more
>>>> fun.
>>>>
>>>>  But if I was going to spend $100K on Rover stuff, I'd start shopping at the
>>>> home of Ian Glass and then maybe see if I could track down the car that
>>>> raced the Blue Train. They I'd take the change and set up about twenty
>>>> hospitals in someplace like Darfur.
>>>>
>>>>  Glen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Robertson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> While Glen seems surprised by the money spent on the beautiful burgundy
>>>>>
>>>> one (approx $32,000) i'll up the ante with the ante by a far margin with
>>>> this 1967 Rover 2000TC................Completed 2 years ago
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.guildclassiccars.com/1967_rover_979/index.html
>>>>> I talked to the Guild owner who let me thoroughly examine the car
>>>>>
>>>> throughout the process ...........He wouldn't give me a final figure on the
>>>> restoration obviously but the shop steward let me know it was  over
>>>> ............GET READY FOR
>>>> IT>>>>>>>>>>.......$100,000............A beauty but still a
>>>> whole lot of money..............The car has returned to San Diego to its
>>>> loving owner
>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Bill Robertson
>>>>>
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