Bentley Puts The Finishing Touches On The First Bacalar And Blower Recreation

Mulliner, Bentley’s in-house customization department, has been busy at work creating two highly limited cars, and the first customer-bound examples are finally ready to leave the factory.

Limited to just 12-a-piece, the cars are the Bacalar and a millimeter-perfect recreation of the 1929 Bentley Blower. A recreation of Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4 1/2-Litre, the car is a stunningly accurate tribute to the car that was designed to do battle at Le Mans.

“Seeing these first two cars now finished has given the whole team an enormous sense of pride,” said Paul Williams, director of Mulliner and Motorsport. “Years of work have gone into the design and development of these projects, and seeing them together is incredibly rewarding.”

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The Blower’s body is trimmed in period-correct Rexine and finished in Birkin Green paint, a color engineered to match the original car on which it’s based, as are the wire wheels and the leather interior.

Blower Car One, as it’s known, is identical to the original car in every way, except for three details. It has foam baffling in the fuel tank, a modern electric fuel pump, and, although it looks like the original dynamo, it has a more modern and powerful dynator charging system for added reliability.

The engine, though, is Bentley’s period-accurate 4 1/2-liter unit, featuring aluminum pistons, an overhead camshaft, four valves per cylinder, and twin spark plugs. At the front, it has the legendary supercharger that gave the car its name. Power is rated at 236 hp (240 PS/176 kW).

The $2 million Bacalar, meanwhile, is an all-new model, so there was no need to keep true to any legendary past. The owner, therefore, has opted to finish its carbon fiber body in a champagne-tinted shade of satin silver called Atom Silver.

The wheels are 22-inches across and designed specifically for the car with polished faces and dark grey satin spokes and Moss Green accents. That last color can also be seen in the grille’s center bar, inside the headlights, on the upper chrome surrounds, and around the gloss black “power humps” at the rear of the car.

The A-pillars, grille meshes and surrounds, hood vents, side vents, lower body, rear bumper inserts, and brake calipers, on the other hand, are all finished in gloss black to provide contrast. Inside, Beluga leather is trimmed with Moss Green hide and Open Pore Riverwood trim sits over Gloss Black veneer with unique satin bronze detailing.

Under the hood, the Bacalar gets the 650 hp (659 PS/484 kW) twin-turbo W12 from the Continental GT Speed, which propels the car to 60 mph (96 km/h) in just 3.5 seconds. Bentley has taken the Bacalar prototype all the way to 200 mph (321 km/h) to certify its top speed.

“I’m excited for our customers to take delivery of their new cars, and to seeing the rest of the orders in both series come to life,” said Williams. “Alongside the more mainstream yet still distinctive cars of the Mulliner Collections family, these are the first models of the Mulliner Classic and Coachbuilt portfolios – but there will be more. We’re just getting started.”