January 2025 – Page 5 – Splendid Isolation

Pick your own three in Comments, then compare with mine below the fold.

Flight Of Fantasy

January 24, 2025 Kim du Toit Drive Time

So what car did Ian Fleming’s James Bond really drive?

Forget that Aston Martin / Lotus / BMW nonsense; Bond was a Bentley man.

And when you have an actual car designer who was a devoted Bond fan in his youth… well, you get this wonderful creature, handbuilt and derived from another Bentley model altogether.

Never mind that Ian Fleming’s description of said Bentley never existed; Our Hero Car Designer (Tony Hunter) just went ahead and designed and built his Bentley pretty much from the writer’s description — and the result is a one-of-a-kind, snorting, roaring beauty.

Old W.O. would have approved, mightily.

So would (the real) James Bond.

TGS Does TGC

January 24, 2025 Kim du Toit Gun/Ammo Tests

…or translated, Jonny looks at one of the latest Turkish Clay Guns, in this case the Webley & Scott ProComp line made by Akdaş — and pretty it is, too:

And he tests it at one of my very favorite clay ranges, Barbury Shooting School, situated but a few miles from Free Market Towers out in Wiltshire.

Enjoy the show; I did. (And bloody hell: that lanky kid is just deadly with a shotgun.)