The vets vintage car blog

      Bentley — now that’s the sportier cousin of the big ol’ luxury‑tank Rolls‑Royce. A Bentley’s got plenty of muscle under the hood, sure, but it ain’t exactly a supercar, even if the numbers make it look like one. ’Cause at the end of the day, a Bentley’s still built to be plush, smooth and fancy — that Rolls‑Royce bloodline shows no matter who owns the brands nowadays. And that kinda comfort means it just ain’t a pure super‑sports machine, even if it’ll outrun half the cars on the highway. It’s too luxurious, too soft‑spoken, too much like a gentleman’s limousine with a wild streak. Now, Ferrari and Lamborghini make their own ‘fancy but fast’ rigs too — like the Ferrari 412, the 456, the LM002 and the Urus. And sittin’ somewhere between those and Bentley, you’ve got Aston Martin and Lagonda — still British, still classy, but a bit more athletic. Kinda like Jaguar: luxury, but not Rolls‑Royce luxury. But enough of that modern fuss. The first Bentleys rolled out in the...

     The Citroën Traction Avant — now that right there was one mighty futuristic machine when it hit the road back in 1934. This thing was way ahead of its time: first car in the whole dang world with front‑wheel drive and a unibody body shell. No wonder it handled like a dream — you could whip it through the curves faster than most folks would dare, and it’d just keep on stickin’ to the asphalt. That’s exactly why the mob and bank robbers loved ’em all through the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s — maybe even into the early ’60s, a few years after production stopped in ’56. Then Citroën rolled out the DS19, the ‘Goddess,’ which got even more famous. That car set a record for pre‑orders when it debuted in ’56 — a record nobody beat ’til Tesla’s Model 3 came along in 2016. The Traction Avant showed up all over the Tintin comics too — always as the bad guys’ ride. And sure, Tintin always got away, but havin’ a Traction Avant chasin’ you sure wouldn’t make life easy. And let’s be hones...