A full century has passed since Bentley revealed its iconic 6 ½ Litre at the 1926 Olympia Motor Show, spurred on by a random encounter that took place two years earlier. While testing a prototype in France, founder Walter Owen Bentley and his colleagues ran into their fiercest racing rivals as they drove from Lyon to Dieppe. Naturally, a race ensued on a straight section of road at speeds exceeding 80 mph.
