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AndrewCrown said:
Dear Funk Star
May I suggest you go and find a few.. sit in them. drive them.. and then I think you will 'understand' their enduring appeal...
Bristol Motors exhibited a classic case history in absolutley understanding their own (super niche) market. It did not need to advertise or seduce journalists or generate reviews as they were already talking one to one with their next customer over a Dubonnet. Under Mr Tony Crook, Bristol Motors would not even sell you a car if he didn't like you. Rare.. kind of cool and lost.
Explore a bit more...
Cheers
A
I would love to, I've never even seen on in real life - although I would likely mistake it for an old Rover :-/May I suggest you go and find a few.. sit in them. drive them.. and then I think you will 'understand' their enduring appeal...
Bristol Motors exhibited a classic case history in absolutley understanding their own (super niche) market. It did not need to advertise or seduce journalists or generate reviews as they were already talking one to one with their next customer over a Dubonnet. Under Mr Tony Crook, Bristol Motors would not even sell you a car if he didn't like you. Rare.. kind of cool and lost.
Explore a bit more...
Cheers
A
Remomonza said:
While attending the Greenpower final at Goodwood this year with my son's school race car team, got chatting to an engineer about an electric powered Metrocab taxi that was being displayed for promotional purposes. I was interested in the construction of the taxi, as its interior was made from carbon fibre. He told me that Metrocab was part of the Frazer Nash group, which also included Bristol cars. I asked him what the new Bristol was going to be like, but he would not give anything away. He just said it was going to be technically very interesting.
http://www.frazer-nash.com/news/news/bristol.html
Interesting. Thankshttp://www.frazer-nash.com/news/news/bristol.html
Understandably perhaps they are often a class war target. I say thank God we had a firm which was so iconoclastic and completely unresponsive to tedious stuff like marketing and trends. As a kid I thought the 409 was achingly cool- olde English cabin with a bloody great big V8 and the six cylinder cars were often impossibly gorgeous. Some horrors- the Beaufighter was not their finest hour -but if Clarkson likes them and the late and really rather wonderful LJKS liked them that is good enough for me . Setright was utterly obsessed with them and if you look at the prices for his work on Bristols you will see his writing was much sought after. But if you lust after a shouty AMG then Bristols possibly not for you
Classic Driver : http://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/brist...
Sniff Petrol drove a Fighter for evo a few years ago: http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/229293/bris...
And I'm pretty sure there's an article by John Barker on a used Blenheim out there too.
And Trigger's Retro Car Tests has unearthed these:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/
and the 407
Sniff Petrol drove a Fighter for evo a few years ago: http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/229293/bris...
And I'm pretty sure there's an article by John Barker on a used Blenheim out there too.
And Trigger's Retro Car Tests has unearthed these:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/
and the 407
Edited by cianha on Thursday 11th December 09:31
Edited by cianha on Thursday 11th December 09:39
bristolracer said:
Media ? Media? Sir what are you saying?
One does not use the interweb or anything as common as a brochure to choose a Bristol, are you mad sir? Brochures are for furniture shops.
One telephones the Kensington showroom and if it is deemed that you are a suitably heeled gentleman with the breeding and disposition to purchase one of our fine craftsman built carriages the you may be granted an appointment to peruse our portfolio.
Really the class of some people these days!
Sounds like the one person in this thread who might pass the pre-purchase interview with Tony Crook.One does not use the interweb or anything as common as a brochure to choose a Bristol, are you mad sir? Brochures are for furniture shops.
One telephones the Kensington showroom and if it is deemed that you are a suitably heeled gentleman with the breeding and disposition to purchase one of our fine craftsman built carriages the you may be granted an appointment to peruse our portfolio.
Really the class of some people these days!
Strocky said:
That is truly horrific. vtecyo said:
Strocky said:
That is truly horrific. 
Possibly the ugliest car I have ever seen., ess said:
The 'old money' motoring equivalent of Coutts.
Money talks but wealth whispers.
Going by that tired old cliche, wealth needs their heads looking at!!! Have you ever been within half a mile of a bristol? they are absolute junk, proper kit car rubbish.Money talks but wealth whispers.
panel gaps you could lose your wallet in, exposed box section, exposed rivets, exposed screws (yes, really) a dash designed with an etch a sketch, rattly doors, styling is obviously subjective, but one of the ones i saw looked like a crap capri and the pre war stuff just looks weird.
I honestly don't know what anyone sees in them
The Crack Fox said:
Very good. 
Bristol is the kind of marque I should like, but I can't get beyond the unappealing styling and questionable quality. Plus, I'd probably just want to annoy Mr Crook, just for fun, like he did others.
He is now the late Mr Crook of course. Styling is so much a matter of taste but in the grey porridge world of the late 40s and early 50s the 401 especially must have looked amazing. One of my teachers had one at grammar school in the mid 60s and even then it looked like a spaceship compared to frumpy old Oxfords and Cambridges. Given Long John Kickstart's predilection for the classics it was fitting that Mr Parkin was the Latin teacher... Bristol is the kind of marque I should like, but I can't get beyond the unappealing styling and questionable quality. Plus, I'd probably just want to annoy Mr Crook, just for fun, like he did others.
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