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

[James Dean]

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 Message ----- 
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


> 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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