DMC: The Bentley Locomotive in detail
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Long time ago, Superado asked me for details of the Bentley model, which is part of the Bentley Limited Edition of "Devil May Care".
I have the book in hands right now and took some snaps. I have been very surprised about the sheer size of the model, I would have expected it to be half that size
I have the book in hands right now and took some snaps. I have been very surprised about the sheer size of the model, I would have expected it to be half that size
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You've had a shave I see Bumtoys!!
Nice model by the way, but never been a bentley fan tbh. Nice addition to the collection though, I pity the poor sucker who had to deliver the bugger.
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Anybody seen the new Casino Royale edition?
Dunno about CR
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http://www.ianfleming.com/casino-royale-bentley-edition/
Thanks, Welshie.
However I am a bit disappointed. A cardset????
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
"Fleming described in detail a modified Bentley R type in Thunderball and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which Bond loving called ‘the Locomotive’. The car never existed but, using Fleming’s exact specifications, a cast and polished 1:43 scale model of the car has been hand crafted by Bentley for this edition."
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To be honest, the "Carte Blanche" Bentley book retailed with GBP 1000 and had 500 units.
DMC was limited to 200/100 so 300 in total
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He was awarded with 50% of the global Stollen production
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That's a steal...or a stollen...or something.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Yes big guy, I think you're right. And of course you were technically correct about the "Locomotive", because it did not exist when Fleming wrote about it. It was in the works so to speak and came later.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
Here are some photos of the John McLusky renditions of the Locomotive for the Daily Express Bond comics as well as more recent shots of the Chapron Bentley. On the cartoon drawings, Fleming was still alive when the original Bond books were serialized and I suspect he might have helped with his input with the artist on how certain things like the fictional Locomotive might have looked, of course to match his own description. Can anyone confirm this, particularly those who has Jon Gilbert's "Ian Fleming - The Bibliography"? The similarities between the cartoon drawings and the current appearance of the Chapron Bentley are remarkable.
As for the Chapron Bentley, I believe that the current owner did "fix" the coachwork to correct what he considered was ugly and inappropriate styling done by Chapron, so I don't know how much of it still resembles the essence of what Fleming had in mind, of course as Mulliners first drafted and envisioned during Fleming's preparation for TB, which came before, based on what Donald Grant said above, the actual execution of the design after Henry Chapron was commissioned for the coachwork instead of Mulliners as originally plannned. The changes of the car's coachwork "before and after" as seen in Donald Grant's above photos are dramatic, IMO. In response to Bondtoys comments, it seems that the most current bodywork is more in keeping with the shorter body as seen in the Chapron blueprints, vs. what Chapron eventually produced.
One detail that I still find ambiguous, is, what did Fleming mean by "knife" or "razor" edged? In coachwork design, it could have meant how the rear fenders were shaped to protrude from the mass of the trunk (or boot) section, or it could have also meant a hard-edged, squared shaped trunk section as depicted in the comic strip version and sort of fits Fleming's "large, ugly boot" description, since both of these featured figured into cars of the period (see the protrusion of the rear fenders in Donald Grant's post of the car's older coachwork), particularly on some models of the Thunderbird since that was mentioned by Fleming in his inquiries to Rolls Royce/Bentley. I hope that rear images of Chapron's original boot design will eventually turn up, since there are none online as far as I can tell; that would help confirm what Fleming actually meant.
However checking vintage Thunderbirds, I may have been wrong and Fleming meant the fins (wonder why he did not mention these though).
Here are shots from the rear side of the DMC model:
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DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.