1929 Bentley Napier

This is a photograph that I took on the straight between Clay Hill and Druids Corner during the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in June 1984.

It's Peter Morley in the 1929 Bentley Napier, a vehicle that he and David Llewellyn created in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley. A note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

 

‘Certainly deserving of a win is Peter Morley in the incredible 24 litre Lion engine Bentley, which on occasion can provide more thrills than the rest of the field put together, or at any rate can make as much noise.’