How Much to FIX a Bentley? – TheSmokingTire

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• What a disastrous car. Get a Toyota Yaris and you can put 200K miles with changing less parts than this Bentley at 20K.

• Very, very classy car. This sort of luxury went out of style in favor of gee wiz tech. I'm glad you're keeping it on the road, and you are correct about the age of the car preventing you from looking like a tool lol.

• vysah versa

• Excellent!

• Wow Agapiou Rolls Royce! I haven’t heard that name in 15yrs! Worked with him back in the day when he was in the valley selling used exotics. Small world

• I know the gas mileage must be terrible but I’d still love to take an epic road trip in that thing.

• All topped off with a sweet Rootbeer & Jubilee……livin large!

• As a Brit of course I am wholly unbiased😏 But the Turbo R really is the pinnacle in my view – combining all the Rolls Royce/Bentley traditions and know how since the Fifties with JUST enough progress made to make it livable yet without detracting one iota from its St James/Pall Mall gentlemen's club louche, yet commanding, aura.

  Furthermore, you can imagine the character of this car being as welcoming and appealing to everyone from the Duke of Westminster to a particularly successful builder in the Home Counties (who in his younger days may, or may not, have been involved with some of the lesser known heists orchestrated by the Kray twins…). It is of course, an expensively suited machine, but it's not a snob – in fact, there's a bit of a rogue hiding underneath the demure Savile Row exterior, but it won't ever let that show unless you really ask it to 😏

  An utterly beguiling, magisterial machine which I am delighted has found its way into the care of such a dedicated and sympathetic new keeper. I am sure you know this already but may I say I find it fascinating – rather thrilling actually – that the engineer who started the Company – W.O.Bentley was born in 1888, only around 20 years after your Civil War and the towering presence of Abe Lincoln – and literally the time of the Wild West😂. Yet, remarkably, did not depart these earthly realms til 1971, a scant couple of decades prior to your recent acquisition's initial registration!🤯

  Treasure and enjoy it – this isn't a rehearsal!😂

• What is it written Americans and cup holders. Do you really need to drink a gallon of root pop or soda beer in a Rolls Royce?

• That’s a Rolls Royce engine in that Bentley

• There’s not a lot of places to put stuff, like what? People didn’t have cell phones nor were they walking around with water bottles in 91’.

• Congratulations on your new car. Drive it gently until it's fully warmed upas they can be prone to head gasket failures if driven hard when cold. They are special

• Charlie saw Matt coming…

  Hahaha

• what is more likely to last another decade, 30 year old bentley or 30 year old rolls royce?

• Boosted Gust!!!! 😮 Nice one! 😊

• Cool car Rob Reiner!! 🙃 I like it! 👍

• I don't love the Pioneer headunit. A little too modern looking.

• matt seems happy😁

• Matt I grew up being shuttled to school in a Bentley T. But unfortunately too young to ever drive it.

  How’s the cowl shake on this one over uneven pavement?

• My grandfather owned a 68 Cadillac Sedan DeVille that had auto dimming high beams, cruise control, front and rear air zones for a/c and heat.

• Is there a cover or something missing where the gear selector meets the steering column?

• Leather coat, Rolex on the wrist, pushing a 91 Turbo R? The whole video is like a time capsule n I love it💪🏽💯

• Please don’t ever sell this car, the story the condition and its so you.

• That's a bargain in my opinion. The only thing that needs to be done is not to wear a baseball cap while driving 😆

• Beautiful car, glad to see someone else enjoying actually using theirs as well! I have a later example from 1996, with the four speed box and tilting steering wheel as well as an extra inch of headroom thanks to redesigned seats. I paid a little less for mine initially then paid a little bit more to get it properly sorted but it's in great shape now. It got reviewed last year by a YouTuber over here in England, JayEm on Cars, you can find it on his channel, it may even be in the suggested videos next to this one. I really think these are underappreciated cars, there's nothing quite like driving them. As you mentioned and others have said, it's important to actually use them – they hate sitting around. I've put about 8000 miles on mine since buying it nearly three years ago, with a mix of short and long journeys, they really eat up the miles and are just so comfortable. Everything is effortless, except for parking which can be problematic here, though you won't have that problem in LA!

  There's a perception on the internet (mainly thanks to a particular YouTuber) that these cars are super unreliable and as long as they are looked after this cannot be further from the truth. And the looking after really isn't that big a deal once they're in a good place. Thanks for being a counter for some of that, these really are well built, quality cars.

• The service schedule on these cars is super comprehensive, like an aircraft schedule – and the first owner followed it exactly, fantastic to see.

• A door window switch on a 1991 Bentley has better build quality than any whole entire car you can lease today.

• Amen to having people take off thier shoes in the car. When I bought my Phantom 7 with the Wool floormats I always make people put those disposable shoe bags when they get in the car and people don't complain because they're getting in a Phantom, not a Honda Accord, or even a Mercedes S Class

• Rear window is common in any make.they don’t get used so corrosion takes over.

• Bloody fabulous.

• With unique tires that expensive, I just would’ve gotten aftermarket wheels for something cheaper and more available.

• “Theres so much ‘not giving a fuck’ in a long wheelbase car” – Matt Farah

• A Bentley in LA, perfect marriage

• That radio looks like one of those Asian teenager art project stereos. I think they look truly out of place. Continental sells a much better-looking radio for just a few hundred dollars with BlueTooth

• Great video, but the comparisons to a new car are just not valid. If you made that car your daily driver, you will spend obscene amounts of money keeping it running perfectly. Parts will be difficult (impossible) to find and almost no shop works on them. And if you say get in a fender bender, car is probably totaled.

• Running out of material that he only shoots his own vehicles 😂

• I have the more rakish 2 door Continental R , basically the same mechanics but higher horsepower. It's a thing to behold. We took it on a 3,000 mile trip across Europe last year. We cruised at the national speed limit and just chilled covering an easy 350 mile between stops. Pretty much the last truly hand built Bentley.

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