Blowers can fetch more than €7 million and are coveted by collectors despite never winning a single race. For many, the 4½ Litre is to automobiles what the Spitfire is to aircraft. Popular culture AC/DC singer and car enthusiast Brian Johnson cited the 4½ Litre Le Mans as the best he'd driven: "The first time I saw it, everything went north on us, except me jaw – that went south. I just had to have it. That car, I think, is a masterpiece… [It] was ludicrously expensive – I mean, just crackers." Ian Fleming's character James Bond drives a 1930 Blower Bentley in three of the 007 Novels, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Moonraker. In the books, Bond drives one of the last Blower Bentleys built, a battleship grey Convertible Coupé, with French Marchal headlamps. Notes References External links Slides easily into Auckland traffic flow (replica of a Birkin Team car The original coupé body of the 1931 supercharged Engine MS3948, Chassis MS3946, Reg GY 3905 in the gallery above in 1959 4 Cars introduced in 1926 24 Hours of Le Mans race cars Le Mans winning cars