I love theese cars, me too..
propper supercharged, described by bugatti as "the worlds fastest truck" XD

...Good one Ace. I'm guessing the Bentley had either a Straight 8 or a "V" engine of some sort, as it seems to me the exhausts were joined into one big pipe, instead of two separate ones. The Turbocharger however would require a larger exhaust pipe. Oh... What the hey. It still looks good after all these years.

It is actually supercharged, and the Roots Compressor can be spotted infront of the headlamps =)
the Bentley had a 4.4L Inline four, and that means that every cylinder is over 1 litre..
4 valves per cylinder, like you might find in a relatively well-preforming engine of todays standard, back then, it was mindblowing..

Though its overall competitive performance was not particularly outstanding, the 4½ Litre Bentley managed to beat several speed records, most famously in 1932 at Brooklands with a recorded speed of 222.03 km/h.

I remember seeing some old footage of Woolf Barnato barreling along in his Bentley.. absolutely epic..
and there's so much more interesting stuff about racing in this time

lets just say that 700-800 horsepower were by no means unusual at that time, all be it, in racingcars, not roadcars

Oh, how i could go on and on XD

did i ever mention that the bentley had its loudpedal in the middle, where you might find the brakes in any other car of that, and indeed this period.. this caused some trouble, but not much noted.. I just remembered, because a friend of my great grandfather had one xD

No, but that's "Cool." I mean if I could figure out how to control a standard "Sit Down" forklift and learn what all those levers, pedals and knobs do, I'm sure I could learn to drive the Bentley pretty quick.