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Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting Saloon Blue Train Special Green Minichamps 1:43

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Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting Saloon Blue Train Special Green Minichamps 1:43 436139501 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting saloon recreates the 1930 "Blue Train Special" in green, cast as a sealed diecast body that keeps the fastback's tapered roofline unbroken from roof to tail. Chrome radiator and headlamp detail sit forward of a long, low bonnet, and zinc alloy construction gives the coachbuilt shape genuine weight and gloss. Tied to Woolf Barnato's famous race against Le Train Bleu, a genuine pre-war legend for a vintage shelf.
Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting Saloon Blue Train Special Green Minichamps 1:43
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Car Brand
Bentley
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
436139501
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About the Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting Saloon Blue Train Special Green Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Bentley 6.5 Litre Gurney Nutting saloon recreates the 1930 "Blue Train Special" in green, cast as a sealed diecast body with the fastback's continuous panel lines. Tied to Woolf Barnato's famous race against Le Train Bleu, it is a genuine pre-war motoring legend in miniature.

In March 1930, Bentley chairman Woolf Barnato wagered he could reach London from the South of France before Le Train Bleu arrived in Calais, and won driving a Speed Six chassis with fastback coachwork by Gurney Nutting. This casting reproduces that car, known ever since as the "Blue Train Special", in its associated green livery.

Minichamps' Bentley Blue Train Special in Green

The Speed Six Behind Barnato's Wager

The car behind the legend was a Bentley Speed Six, its 6.5-litre six-cylinder engine among the largest and most powerful available in a road car of the period, fitted with a fastback saloon body by Gurney Nutting rather than the more common open tourer coachwork. That fastback shape, tapering smoothly from the roofline to a pointed tail, is exactly the kind of subject a sealed diecast casting handles well.

Gurney Nutting's Fastback Cast as One Shell

Minichamps builds the body as a single unit, letting the roof-to-tail taper read as one continuous surface without a panel seam breaking the line. The green finish matches the livery most associated with the Blue Train story, letting the long, low bonnet and sweeping wing line catch light clearly. Chrome radiator surround and headlamp detail sit forward of that long bonnet with period-correct proportions, and the running boards and spare wheel mount are moulded rather than simplified away.

Pre-War Coachbuilt Proportions and Sealed Construction

An 11cm Casting With Period-Correct Heft

At 1:43, a car with the Speed Six's genuinely substantial pre-war dimensions comes out close to 11cm long, giving the fastback's taper room to develop properly. Zinc alloy diecast gives the model real weight, appropriate for a subject whose original was itself an unusually heavy, powerful car for 1930.

A Sealed Body That Mirrors Hand-Formed Panels

Coachbuilt pre-war saloons like this were built one at a time by hand, each panel individually formed, and a sealed diecast body mirrors that spirit: the original's continuous surfaces were the whole point of hiring Gurney Nutting, and keeping this model's body sealed protects that same continuity. Set beside other pre-war Bentley subjects, this Blue Train casting is a genuine legend piece rather than a generic vintage saloon, and it is worth knowing that distinction before comparing prices against a standard Bentley saloon from the same era.

A Genuine Legend for a Pre-War Shelf

Few pre-war subjects carry a documented story as good as this one, and the Blue Train Special earns a place as the centrepiece of any collection built around 1920s and 1930s motoring. It sits naturally alongside other Bentley competition cars from the same era, or against contemporary luxury saloons from Rolls-Royce and Daimler. For collectors who want one pre-war piece that tells a complete story on its own, this is very likely the one worth choosing first.

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