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The Bentley

Skulduggery Pleasant's 1954 Bentley R-Type Continental is one of only 208 ever made. The car houses a six-cylinder, 4.5-litre engine, and was retro-fitted by Skulduggery Pleasant with central locking, climate control, satellite navigation and a host of other modern conveniences. Skulduggery often refers to the Bentley as a female.

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Skulduggery Pleasant[]

After Stephanie gets attacked by Vindick Leather at Grimwood House, Skulduggery takes her in the Bentley to China’s library to see if China has any information on Serpine who he believes to be behind the attack.

When they leave, Vindick Leather rams a car into the Bentley. He grabs Stephanie but whe manages to break free and runs away, and Skulduggery is stuck in the Bentley and cannot help. After Leather dies by falling into a river, Skulduggery drives the Bentley to Haggard to drop Stephanie home.

The next day Skulduggery and Stephanie go in the Bentley to visit Ghastly in his tailor shop, to see if he’ll give them access to his family’s collection of art and books about the Ancients in the Vault. When he doesn’t, they drive the Bentley to the Dublin Municipal Art Gallery to stake out the Vault, and see two vampires enter just before night. After that Skulduggery drops Stephanie home again. Between then and the following morning Skulduggery leaves the Bentley at a magical mechanic to get it fixed, replacing it with the Canary Car. The car is damaged quite often, from crashes to falling into chasms, but Skulduggery has stated he has a rather good mechanic who always pieces it back together.

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The Bentley from the Playing with Fire Comic

The climax of Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days the car is seemingly destroyed when the Sanctuary explodes, but it reappears in one piece during the next book. This proves that the car was repaired afterwards. However, Skulduggery says that if it is damaged once more it will be beyond repair.

Over the course of the books, Skulduggery has spent a significant amount of money on the Bentley's repairs instead of buying a new one, although during its first repair, he made the choice of having spare cars hidden around Ireland, typically brightly colored Ford Fiestas, all given inventive names by Valkyrie, such as The Canary Car, The Purple Menace, and The Orange-Mobile.

Even after Valkyrie received her own car, The Oompa-Loompa, on her 18th birthday, she still showed a preference to travel with Skulduggery.

Trivia[]

  • Skulduggery has a driver's license, and the Bentley is fully taxed and insured. He doesn't want to give the police any excuse to pull him over. [1]


Real Life[]

References[]

  1. Derek Landy on Twitter, 23 August 2017.
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