AutoPuzzles - The Internet's Museum of Rare Cars!
Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Carnut on March 11, 2011, 07:51:11 AM
-
Identify this and the year it was built, for 1 point:
-
Alfa
-
Alfa
No!
-
Sure the Experts'll know...
-
Bristol 401 Touring?
-
Bristol 401 Touring?
Good start but can you enlarge on that to say exactly what this car is?
Locked until your next reply.
-
the Bristol 401 Superleggera prototype, was built in summer 1947: it was very similar to the Superleggera cars built with italian chassis. this 1947 Bristol was a demo car: infact all the drawings, the construction system and the production will take place in Filton, at Bristol aeroplane Company.
-
the Bristol 401 Superleggera prototype, was built in summer 1947: it was very similar to the Superleggera cars built with italian chassis. this 1947 Bristol was a demo car: infact all the drawings, the construction system and the production will take place in Filton, at Bristol aeroplane Company.
That's it: it's the original Touring-bodied Bristol 401 prototype form 1947!
Well done.
-
Interesting. Though if this is a prototype, presumably, there is only one?
I found this image on Wikipedia that also states that it's a prototype. ???
Obviously, not the same car. Was there more that one made?
-
Well, there can of course be more than one prototype of a car but in this instance probably not.
It may well be the same car: my puzzle photo shows it as found, before restoration, but your photo probably shows it post-restoration. The registration number is not an original one but what the DVLA likes to call an 'age-related' plate, which to the unitiated might look just like an original plate from an older car but actually looks all wrong to the registration anorak like me!
I can't really see any differences; I'd say it's the same car.
-
Wow. If true, awesome restoration. 8)
-
Wow. If true, awesome restoration. 8)
Yes: someone must have had a bit of spare loose change hanging around!
Money well-spent, I would say!
-
Interesting. Though if this is a prototype, presumably, there is only one?
I found this image on Wikipedia that also states that it's a prototype. ???
Obviously, not the same car. Was there more that one made?
Yes... A total of six cars!
This red is the only restored.There is another red #4 (unrestored-picture) and this navy one
-
And this is what the car looked like originally: