Leno's 1930 Bentley GJ 400 isn't actually a classic car and has few Bentley parts on it. It's really a modern custom with vintage looks and a 27-liter Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine for power.
Dodd, would use the roughly £18,500 ($24,000) to build out a whole new car with even more ambitious specifications: - A ...
The Rolls-Royce Merlin was the pinnacle of piston engine design in the 1940s. This particular engine was used in Fairey Fulmar I, Serial No N1926, during the days of the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Alongside the sleek design, the throaty roar of its Merlin engine is part of the ... to work for Charles Rolls in 1903 after he fixed his car. Ambition and ability saw him rise through the ranks ...
In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce had developed one of the finest pieces of engineering ever conceived: the Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine ...