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This was, of course, one of the Bond books' cars (from the Universal Exports' pool) - supercharged to race Tracy's Lancia in OHMSS. Manself, you might bring this thread to an early close! However, there was after this, the S1 Continental and then, of couse, from 1955, the HJ Mulliner coachworked (4 doored) Flying Spur - later applied (not strictly as the Flying Spur) to the RR marque too; I think most fabulously to the RR Silver Cloud III: I've already posted one image of this today in another thread - but, hang it all, I'll post it again:Manself wrote:The ultimate GT car - surely the category closest to the collective heart of the Lounge - is, in my opinion, the Bentley R-Type Continental.
At this moment I can't remember how to post an image, but there's a weblink if you're curious:
www.continental.org.uk
[/img] Note the striking vertically aligned double headlamps. Both cars for summer days in the sun.storeynicholas wrote:Cufflink79 I think that: respect for our elders and love of our families; laughter and fun amongst true friends; courtesy, generosity of spirit and charity, an ability to admit when we are wrong; an ability to believe that it might be more often than we used to think; the application of some fixed standards in our own minds (even if not entirely understood by others); enthusiasm for: well-made clothes, cars, sailing yachts, guns, fishing rods, watches, cufflinks, cigar and cigarette cases, lighters, snuff boxes, boxed English duelling pistols; the taste for: good wine, ancient spirits, simple, but great, food, well-blended tobaccos and (dare I say, in this day and age?) last, but not least, mysterious, spirited, beautiful women and all the components of these things and people which make us chase them; through fearless endeavour; through plain desire and love of living, lie at the heart of a well-lived life. But, equally, I am sure that maintaining balance in these various (sometimes competing) pursuits brings contentment. I am well up there in the desire - and the balance I hope to find on the farside of fifty. By then, or sometime, near then, I might be able to get into a Flying Spur and say to myself ""One Day, Sonny, One Day!" Is............. Now"
NJS
