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Classic Bentley Meteor Powered By A 826 hp Spitfire Up For Sale

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:54 AM PST

Chrises Cars - Classic Bentley Meteor Powered By A 826 hp Spitfire Up For Sale

This Bentley Meteor is currently up for grabs in the UK and even though this car looks like its from the 1920′s it has been kitted out out with all mod cons and can hit an amazing 160mph.

Bob Petersen deserves a cold beer. Or three. That's because he's responsible for what can be defined as "the greatest car ever to go around the Top Gear track": the Bentley "Meteor".

You probably remember this car; mainly because it has such a loud engine you might still hear it howling in your head. Yeah, it's that car, the car that looks like it's from the 1920s, built from scratch and powered by a Spitfire engine. You heard me, a Spitfire plane's engine!

That means this article can have the "the best" tag attached to it, as this car is now for sale and its price is "over 500.000 GBP".

For that money, not only do you receive an ode to the "Bentley Boys" era (a group of rich auto enthusiasts that made the 1920s Bentley go on to win in motorsports), but you also get a 27-liter Rolls-Royce Meteor engine, also derived from the plane engine Merlin that powered the Spitfire and Lancaster planes during World War II, an engine that delivers 862 horsepower.

As you may recall from the episode it first appeared in, the car is strapped to a 19-feet chassis from the 1930s Rolls-Royce Phantom, a 400 liter fuel tank and a top speed of 160 mph. Attempting to fill the gas tank will leave you broke but trying to reach its top speed will require more balls than a ball pit.

Bob spent three years building this Bentley, equipping it with electronically assisted steering and disk brakes. All this effort made him drive around the TopGear track in 1m and 50s, easily surpassing the BMW Brutus which was up against him.

The classic cars experts over at Coys have put it on sale. Forget about its mileage of 2 mpg and forget about the fact that you can't use it for shopping. I mean, who wouldn't want this in their garage?