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Big Finish has released a new behind the scenes photograph from Young Bond: SilverFin, its full cast audio drama of Charlie Higson’s first Young Bond novel. It shows Isaac Rouse, the teenage James Bond, in school uniform beside a grey Bentley, ahead of the release on 29 October 2026.
The car in the picture
In the novel, James rides in his Aunt Charmian’s battleship grey Bentley 4½ Litre. The car in the shoot is not an original but a Bentley Blower Jnr, provided by Hedley Studios, an 85% scale, fully electric recreation of the 1929 Blower. Founder Ben Hedley says it is one of 349 to be built by hand. To our eye it is a sensible choice, because it gives the packaging the right silhouette without putting a priceless racing car on a gravel drive.
Why the Bentley matters
Producer Robert Valentine notes that SilverFin has two cars: the Blower and Uncle Max’s Bamford and Martin, the firm that later became Aston Martin, in which James learns to drive. Bond buys his own grey Blower in 1933, he says, and the adult Bond still drives it in Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Moonraker. Our page on the Blower Bentley covers Fleming’s car, and our earlier reports have the Eton photographs and the full cast. Each of the two box sets is £24.99 as a download or £35.99 with a collector’s edition CD.
Sources: Big Finish, 19 October 2026; Hedley Studios.