1929 Bentley Birkin Blower - 2019 Geneva Motor Show * A&T Design

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There’s another famed automaker turning 100 this year: Bentley. The 1929 Birkin Blower is one of the marque’s most interesting race cars of the era. As the story goes, “Bentley boy” Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin persuaded Bentley chairman Woolf Barnato to let him enter a team at Le Mans in 1930, which led to the production of the Blower road cars. Birkin worked on a car out of his shop, bolting a Roots-type supercharger onto Bentley’s 4½ liter engine. While he didn’t win at Le Mans, Birkin reportedly drove this car to a second-place finish at the 1930 French Grand Prix.

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