1948 Bentley MkVI

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  1. MotoMike

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    patrick80 Wagonista!

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    I was ready to post that! That is one beautiful shooting brake, as the Brits refer to them.

    Now, lower it five inches, air bags, 502 big block...NOT!
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    Wouldn't I rather have a Bentley? Amazing for the year.
     
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    Beautiful vehicle, very odd auction description. Sounds like it's had an extensive rebuilding - 'new centre body section'....?
     
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    rrbnut 1991 Mercury Grand marquis Colony Park LS Wagon

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    have seen one at a cra show, these are wonderful looking and driving cars
     
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    Now that's what I am talking about. :D

    mike
     
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    Krash, it has undergone 2 different major rebuilds in its lifetime. By the sound of it, this started as a proper saloon, and was converted into a Hearse, and then that was reconfigured into the shooting brake we wee here. It was restored in this configuration, and the brake part was found to be good, but the original body work was found sub-par and replaced, which I am guessing means from the cowl to the C pillars. The ones that were coach built from the start as shooting brakes have much nicer proportions to me. This one looks like a hearse that has been converted. Granted it is rare, but it is also not original, being that it is in its 3rd iteration of the body work.
     
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    I think a shooting brake is a two-door wagon, not four like this. Slick, though!
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    A shooting brake was a station wagon used to go hunting foxies and other poor defenseless critters .
    Over here foxies would rather ride in a sports car.
     
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  10. Hanswurst von Plumpskloh

    Hanswurst von Plumpskloh Prisoner of Foo

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    Foxies might look cute to you. But, once they get into the henhouse, they don't just kill one hen to get full. They have to kill all of them. It's no wonder that the Brits don't take pity on them
     
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    Right, but nowadays I think it mostly applies to two-door, sporty wagons.

    From the wikipedia entry:

    Proper usage of the term shooting-brake refers to sporty two-door hatchback (i.e., three-door) variants. In 2006, The New York Times described a shooting-brake as "a sleek wagon with two doors and sports-car panache, its image entangled with European aristocracy, fox hunts and baying hounds," In 2011, Top Gear described a shooting-brake as "a cross between an estate and a coupé".

    Though it also says, "In contemporary usage, the term shooting-brake has broadened to include a range of vehicles from five-door station wagons — to three-door models combining features of a wagon and a coupe."

    I had a VW Fox wagon that I put a diesel engine in and like to (ironically) refer to as my shooting brake!
     
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    I've never heard that term before, a "shooting brake". Well, I guess you learn something new everyday. Based on the definition, seems to me the Volvo p1800 would be a quintessential example
     

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