[A Lovely Pair of Bristols

[Quinny]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 17 October 2011 at 21:29

[a8hex]

Thanks
She's stunning!

[L100NYY]

Absolutely stunning,

[bobt]

Quinny said:

Well not quite.

But a friend came around this evening in his lovely old Bristol.

1950 Two Litre straight six

Sweet as a nut

Crikey, cut the roof off of that and it would just like a BMW 327.

[Forthright MC]

that is stunning, looks extremely tidy too

nice shots, liking the gaggle of Griffs too!

very distinctive cars indeed, this interesting example caught my eye at a show recently,

[fourwheelsteer]

Quinny said:

bobt said:

Crikey, cut the roof off of that and it would just like a BMW 327.

I don't know much about old cars but, apparantly thats exactly what its a copy of

After the war Bristol "Aquired" the drawings and basically set about making their own version of the same car.

So well spotted

I think the bodywork is more "inspired by" than "copy of" the BMW 327 coupé. Bristol took the best bits of pre-war BMW and combined them with the best, aircraft quality, materials available and the highest possible standards of assembly. The chassis was taken from the BMW 326 because it had superior rear suspension, with torsion bars and an "A" bracket to locate the live axle where the 327 and 328 simply hung the axle on a pair of semi-elliptic leaf springs. The engine was based on the BMW 328, but made from the same stuff as Bristol's aircraft engines. The body owed a lot to the BMW 327 but Bristol's version was smoother, more spacious but possibly less handsome.

I'd love a 6-cylinder Bristol. That burgundy 405 would do very nicely indeed.

[tog]

Very nice