Bentley will enter two 4½ liter Bentley Blowers the 2012 Mille Miglia. They will take on the classic 1,000 mile endurance test, which starts today.

Despite having a combined age of over 160 years, the Bentley Blowers are showing no signs of slowing down. The 4½ litre Supercharged ‘Birkin Blower’ – raced extensively by the legendary Le Mans winner and Bentley Boy Tim Birkin – has already successfully completed the Mille Miglia in 2005 and 2011.

The Birkin’s companion car is one of 50 Blowers built for road use and still appears at Bentley events around the world. It started life in 1930 as one of the company’s first showroom demonstrators and is still performing its fair share of ‘test drives’ eight decades later.

A 1954 company-owned R-Type Continental has also made the journey from England to Italy. Next to one of the most elegant cars to have sported Bentley’s distinctive ‘Winged B’ emblem, the R-Type was also the world’s fastest four-seat luxury saloon when it was launched in 1952 (delivering a top speed of 115mph) and this year marks the car’s 60th Anniversary.

The cars will be accompanied across Italy by two modern Crewe-built cars – the 6.0 liter W12 Continental GT coupe and the recently launched 4.0 liter V8 GTC convertible.

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