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Hard to guess the size of it, so is it a Mark I Sprite underneath?
Quote from: Allan L on February 19, 2016, 04:46:35 AM
Hard to guess the size of it, so is it a Mark I Sprite underneath?
No; I would say it's bigger based on what I know..
Bristol 403-based roadster,
it was built in 2004?
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
It was apparently made as an evocation of a 1950's car using a Bristol 403 as a base.
Well done.
I really don't understand how this evokes the 1950s more that the quintessentially 1950s car that a Bristol 403 is.
Quote from: Allan L on February 19, 2016, 06:50:29 PM
I really don't understand how this evokes the 1950s more that the quintessentially 1950s car that a Bristol 403 is.
I sympathise. I suppose it evokes a 1950s sports-racing car, especially since so many of those were Bristol-engined. Personally. I would have restored the original car. but each of us is different.
Interesting to see that the knock-off wheels have been replaced with shiny chrome wires.
I see DVLA have it as a 1958 Bristol 405, not a 403 which wouldn't be as late as 1958 anyway.
Quote from: Allan L on February 20, 2016, 07:13:04 AM
I see DVLA have it as a 1958 Bristol 405, not a 403 which wouldn't be as late as 1958 anyway.
Thanks; that's more likely to be accurate than the website, although the car is pictured at a Bristol Owners Club meeting at Woburn Abbey in 2004 and I believe was described as a 403 there by its owner. I think it's far more likely anyone would turn a 405 into this than a 403...
Below is a rear view of the car; incidentally nicanary I note the registration number is different from that in the picture posted by dzima, which I think is a much later picture, so the wheels have been changed from the wires to the pierced knock-offs, rather than the other way around!
The other registration was for a BRISTOL (BLMC), whatever that is supposed to mean, but DVLA knows nothing at present.