BENTLEY’S BIRKIN BLOWER GOES DIGITAL
- Blower Continuation Series reaches important milestone as digital model is completed by home-working team
- Twelve-strong series based on Bentley’s own ‘Team Blower’ supercharged 4½-litre built and raced by Sir Tim Birkin
- Combination of laser-scanning and precision measurement used to create accurate digital model for manufacture of new parts
- Twelve customers now specifying colour and trim options for their Continuation cars
- Series being delivered by Bentley Mulliner’s Classic division
- New cars form the world’s first pre-war race car continuation series
(Crewe, 16 April 2020) Bentley’s Blower Continuation Series project has this week reached an important milestone, with the completion of the digital CAD (Computer Aided Design) model that will serve as the master design and engineering reference for the new cars.
Announced last year, the Blower Continuation Series is a run of twelve new Bentley Blowers, each of which will be an exact…