True but remember the saying, "A gentleman drives a Bentley, but a gentleman is DRIVEN in a Rolls." At this time, Bentleys were really intended to be cars that were driven by a younger and more mechanically savvy audience than your typical Rolls Royce. But they definitely could have still been driven! In the original owner's manual that came with the car, it did mention that you could send "your driver to an authorized Bentley dealership for training" - so definitely still part of the culture to be driven around!

You have excellent taste in cars! And Bentley + Bumpers is totally Buntlers, right? Can we add that to the official manual? 😅

@@Everyday2Exotic Yeppers!

Thank you so much for chiming in! Honestly, while filming this video, it was really hard not to just chill in the backseat. When I (Joel here) filmed the shots of Alex and Amy during the drive section, I couldn't believe how comfortable and quiet and spacious the car was! And this is something that is closer to a hundred years old than not! They truly put so much love and attention into these put so much love and attention into these cars that stands the test of time and then some. Bonjour and thank you so much for watching!

Thank you!

To be fair, both of the coils in this car are original and in working order. If a part is prone to fail from normal use, duplicate it!

Some mechanisms use the destruction of one substance to "fuel" the device no matter what you do it will eventually fail

The Mark VI was advertised with the same language of the "Silent Sports Car"

The advertising phrase "The Silent Sports Car" was indeed first and primarily applied to the Derby-built cars, but there are advertising materials as late as 1952 still using the term to describe the post-war models. We do have a 1938 Thrupp & Maberly 4 1/4 litre as well in the collection and both cars are comparable in living up to that reputation.

Alex just replied to a question about this today! There are multiple garages around town that the cars are stored in. However, Alex and Amy do cycle through the cars on a regular basis, driving each car and making sure they all get some use.

Exactly! No better advertisement for a car then to see them on the road driving past all of the broken down cars!

I mean, it works. I don't think I've ever seen a bent on the side of the road. Yet, I see maseratis being towed constantly, and that definately solidifizes every joke I make about them in my mind...

Well, that IS interesting. Good sleuthing!

Thanks! We are loving the process of sharing all of the cars!

We are so glad that you found us! We're still getting started but there's so much more to come. On our channel we have a playlist called Carside Questions, which goes through quite a bit of some of these questions that people have about maintaining a 200+ collection of cars! But if you have a specific question let us know, we would be happy to answer! Regardless, we are glad you're along for the ride!

The number one question I tend to get on people hearing the size of the collection is "Where do you keep them all?" They are currently spread out in six different buildings around the city of Eugene, Oregon. This makes the insurance company happy as the risk of a fire or some similar catastrophe taking out the whole collection is significantly reduced. With this number of cars, keeping, maintaining, and driving them is essentially a full time job. Fortunately my main source of income is one requires me to spend time in more of a project management role that I can primarily accomplish through occasional Zoom meetings and telephone calls, giving me a lot of flexibility to spend time in the shop. As far as the goals of the collection, I primarily look at cars as a driver rather than purely with the intent to show them, so the cars are kept in running order for the most part and I very frequently rotate through them to try to keep them all functioning as they should. As I write this, Amy and I are planning on driving her 1962 Triumph Herald convertible from Eugene to the Oregon coast for lunch and to spend the day, which should be a drive of about 150 miles or so round trip, but on most days with decent weather, we are driving cars from the collection even when running errands in town and such, purely to keep them in good running order, as the worst thing you can do with a classic car is just let it sit. As far as the goals of the collection, We have always wanted to try to find ways of sharing it with everyone rather than simply hiding them away. These videos are turning into our best way to do that currently, along with our website, which we are hoping to get back to updating soon. The eventual goal is also to found a not-for-profit museum in the area at some point in time. Organizing and running a museum in a way that it becomes sustainable is a difficult challenge so the plan is to move slowly and deliberately in that direction, but with an eye on how to keep the museum alive and vibrant rather than a static display of the same cars all the time.

Wow! Thank you. We try to make it fun and engaging!

Thank you very much! We've been having fun making these videos and have a lot more planned out in the future. We've been slightly tweaking the format since the beginning and these videos seem to just get better as we get further into the swing of things. Our collection is large (202 cars and growing) and is pretty diverse as far as makes, models, and types of cars, ranging from the 1930s to more modern cars, with a strong emphasis on cars from the 1950s through the 1970s. The vast majority are European, with a few historically and techonologically interesting Japanese cars having slipped in, though there are currently no American cars in the collection.

In many ways I agree! We also have a 1961 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II and a 1988 Rolls Royce Silver Spur in the collection and although they are nice cars in their own right, I generally enjoy driving the MkVI more!

That's entirely possible! The gearshift in this MkVI is certainly further back in relation to the seat position than it is in our 1938 Thrupp & Maberly-bodied 4 1/4 Litre Derby Bentley. The downside in our 1938, is when I get in the car the gearshift occasionally goes up my trouser leg. On the 1949, I generally leave the car parked in second gear to prevent that happening which puts it very close to the seat, as you can see me reaching in to do at the start of the video when we exited the vehicle at the covered bridge. Adapting to the problem could have easily been done with a fractionally narrower seat or locating it a quarter of an inch closer to the center of the car with little difficulty.

We are so glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for sharing it. Reconditioning the radio must have been a fun little project!

I believe the dawn, at least initially, had a different carburetor setup and mild difference in performance, but otherwise is largely the same.

Lonely for You Baby by Sam Dees. Sorry it took so long to respond, i had to open up the project file to check!

Appreciate you watching!

Thanks for watching (at least half!).

@@Everyday2Exotic I agree, a good informative video for a beautiful car but the music needs to be edited out.

That sounds like a beautiful color combo. So glad you enjoyed the video. We truly love reading through these types of comments. The memories and stories we hear make us so happy!

They were so forward thinking that it can be used for both! And wouldn't you know it... useful for charging electronics too. The more you know...

You are correct and as Americans, our habit is to use the term cigarette lighter which has always been the dominant term in the United States. An earlier comment also called us out on this and I believe the owners manual specifically refers to it as a cigar lighter as well. Considering that neither Amy nor I smoke and that the car is positive ground so that I cannot use it as a charging port, it is redundant to our needs either way.

Absolutely! There are a couple of Daimlers, predating Jaguar's acquisition of the company, in the collection, one being prewar and one postwar. The prewar one is in the process or rebuilding the engine and will likely need other work to be roadworthy, while the postwar one had been restored by a previous owner and needs only a little work to be back on the road.

That under square engineering also made for torque, so a comparatively small displacement let the car feel lively off the line. That, in turn, allowed for gearing that would allow considerable top speeds with surprisingly good fuel consumption.

The only other Post-war British engine I can think of, however, that has an intake over Exhaust configuration is the Rover 3 Litre and earler 2 point something litre used in the Land Rover Series 3. There may be more but it is certainly rare. rover didnit for micht he same reason and even managed to develop it with essentially a hemispherical combustion chamber by slanting the tops of the pistons. There may be others but certainly few if, if any

There are some quick, side of the road, fixes. The built in redundancy of the Bentley allows for really fast swapping of some common "side of the road" issues.

@@Everyday2Exotic You obviously missed my point. These tools were for *more than* quick fixes. Those tools can be used for all repairs and maintenance, not only quick fixes.

There's a lot of really incredible people out there who have covered such an incredible car, we dedicate ourselves to trying something new and fresh to see if the format works! Hope you enjoyed it!

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It would make a fitting tribute to the heritage of self repair, that's for sure!

And the car could fit so many illegal boxes of wine! Thanks for sharing such a cool memory. We love hearing stories like this.

I'm sure it would be so very interesting to have the Bell and Howell films available on KZfaq.🤞 Your sisters agree.

🤣🤣 I’m sure that would be very safe!

Definitely a part of the club! Have you seen a Mk VI in person? Have you been able to tell much of a difference between the two?

Absolutely - familiar with both the MKV1 & R-Type. I understand that the chassis is bolted on the MKV1 & welded on the R. My Special (Racing Green Engineering) has a B81 Straight 8 6.5L

That's incredible! I'll let @alexhaugland1 chime in on the Elite but we are so glad you watched our video and checked out the collection! That's amazing that you were able to work on such legendary machines!

Frank Costin did play a significant role in refining the aerodynamics of the Elite, by my understanding. The Elite's final body shape was certainly a few years ahead of its time and is an incredible car. We'll certainly do a video on it at some point and it may be our next Lotus video, though we have 5 road-going Lotuses (Loti?) to choose from, most from the Chapman era.

Another solution would be to grind down the metal railing of the seat but who wants to tear up such a nice example of a Mark VI?

@@Everyday2Exotic Honestly? No one in their right mind - or even some of the slightly disturbed "car people" I know... 😲

It’s our pleasure! We love sharing all these cars and glad to hear that people love learning more about them!

Same. It’s a nice buntler too!

To be honest, i believe in the owner's manual it is indeed a cigar lighter!

Greetings from Oregon!

Was sweet getting to see your setup! Did you also do the editing!?

He sure does! Good work this episode Joel! Good work all the episodes!

​@@NYAG yeah! I do all the filming and editing. Bobby is the collection's full time detailer, and Jeff does all our shorts and manages the channel. We're a very small team and we're proud of the fact that we're putting out content that matches that of a full production studio!

Thanks! We always look forward to making them!

Too loud! (bentley)

Wow, what an ordeal! Sorry you lost the car, but good thing you are still around, that could have been very bad!

That's incredible! Did you import it or was it imported by a dealership? Did you have much reliability issues with it? Thanks for sharing and commenting!

I had no reliability issues with the car, although I was well aware of the overheating problems alot of owners had. Bought the car 2nd hand from the owner of Foleys Store in Houston with about 20k on the clock. Sold it in'79 before moving to UK. Bought a '65 DB5 for 12k pounds in UK (BRG), that h😢ad been converted to Webers.....wish I still had those cars

Wow! Appreciate that so much!

There's definitely a lot of similarities!

@@Everyday2Exotic my favorite looking car of all time. Designed by Italians and built by Germans. Perfect

Definitely one of the best combos out there. Amy has a beautiful yellow Karmann Ghia that we are going to be reviewing this fall for our perfect autumn car! But there's a lot of other cars in the collection that are exactly what you're talking about: Italian designed with German engineering. There's a lot of Zagato and Bertone here in the collection, which in our humble opinion is some of the best looking cars ever made!

@@Everyday2Exotic nice, you got a new subscriber!

Thank you so much! We love getting to talk to different people here in the comment section and also feel honored to earn your subscription! Let us know what you think for each episode, we really appreciate the feedback