Bentley Speed Six Introduction
In 1928 the Bentley Speed Six was introduced as a sporting version. It would get the most-successful racing Bentley, claiming triumph at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 with drivers Glen Kidston, Tim Birkin, and Woolf Barnato.
The Speed Six was best suited as a traditional road car and many people were used it apart from the racing. Two saloon-bodied Speed Sixes still served as patrol cars for the Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police Force.
Hoping more power, Walter Owen Bentley added two cylinders to the straight-4 locomotive used in his 4½ Litre auto, creating the 6½ Litre Bentley in 1926.
Woolf Barnato did none but wash his Speed Six Bentleys, but he used them as regular driver as good. His 'Blue Train Special', planed and built by Gurney Nutting, is one of the about known of all Speed Sixes.