# @bentleymotors on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXj0rYCjNbl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64619453-bentleymotors-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/13a477effc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-25T15:30:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bentley Motors (@BentleyMotors) — https://gondola.cc/BentleyMotors

## Caption

Alistair Littlewood’s workshop is unassuming, but the work that happens inside it is anything but.​

He works methodically, largely alone, and completely at ease. Raised among old engines, Littlewood has been rebuilding cars since before he could drive, combining traditional hands‑on skills with modern engineering thinking.​

That balance caught Bentley Mulliner’s attention. For its continuation Blower and Speed Six, he was commissioned to research and hand‑make the toolkits that would once have accompanied the cars.​

They had to be functional, technically accurate, and relevant to how the cars are actually used today.​

Using CAD to resolve century‑old designs before metal is cut, then machining parts on a 1960s lathe, Littlewood produced nearly 800 tools across two projects.​

Its restoration treated as a practical problem to be solved - informed by history but grounded firmly in how things work.​

#Bentley #BentleyStories

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## Tags

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