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

Thu Apr 3 07:27:18 BST 2008

Which Came first? Barnato's Blue Train Bentley race, or Rover's Light 16 
Blue Train race? James
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From: "phing" <phing at videotron.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: [ROVERNET - Blue Train Bentley


> 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 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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