YOUR SHOUT READERS’ LETTERS
YOUR SHOUT Got something to say about anything Rolls-Royce or Bentley related? Then we want to hear it! Send an email to rrb.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to: The Editor, Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL
EXPERIENCE ON LPG? I use my 1997 Bentley Brooklands quite regularly, almost as a daily driver, though I have a smaller modern car for city driving. With the horrifying recent rise in fuel prices I’ve got to the point where driving 100 miles costs at least £50, as I use only Super Unleaded because I believe it suits the car’s engine and because of the lower ethanol content. So I’ve cut back on use of the Bentley, which saddens me. I look after the car but I bought it to use it because I love driving it, but filling the tank now costs more than my annual insurance, and two fill-ups exceed what it costs me in road tax. Have any readers converted Bentley Brooklands or Turbo Rs to run on LPG? I used to avoid cars with LPG conversions because I thought it was a sign of someone trying to run an expensive car on a budget, but with the recent price hike, the difference between a litre of Super Unleaded and a litre of LPG has risen to almost £1 – and an engineer friend tells me that LPG has a high octane rating and is therefore suitable to use with turbocharged engines. Does anyone still do this conversion work – and what would it cost? Tom Derbyshire, Birmingham
NO TO INSIPID BENTLEY COLOURS Re: the 2022 Bentley Flying Spur V8 on page 38 of the May/June issue. Why oh why? That insipid colour combined with black does the car no favours! Why accentuate that awful black line across the bonnet? The sombre interior is very depressing and as for the 'plain Jane' rear end on p 43.... The 'mean look' & Bentley simply do not go together! Alex Kuhn
We remember seeing at least one Brooklands with a multipoint LPG injection system fitted in period by a Bentley dealer, so it’s possible – though rare. Can readers offer advice?
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