Once the Allies of World War II had won, Bristol Cars was founded in 1945 as a response to the declining demand for the Bristol Aeroplane Company’s aircraft. What’s more, to get a jump start at this ...

The U.K.'s Bristol Cars may not be on the tip of every wagging social media tongue these days, especially here in the U.S., but it has produced some remarkable cars over the years. Case is point is a ...

Remember the time when Bristols were BMWs? That's right, a few decades ago, before they became our favorite automotive anachronisms, Bristols were based on pre-war BMW designs. And this week there's a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A romp through any monograph on Bristol Cars—as with many arcane subjects—leaves one searching for a sense of order and a method ...

The well-received Type 400, introduced in 1946, had a 2.0-liter inline-six-cylinder derived from the prewar BMW 328. Its styling, atop a steel box-section, open A-frame chassis, also echoed the BMW.

It was by chance that I, then a student studying Rubens, first saw a Bristol 403 in Genoa, parked against the rusticated wall of a palace whose powerful princes had employed him as a portrait painter.

Engine swaps for classics are a bit of a contentious subject, to say the least. And the rarer the car, the more the case to keep it original is made. So, for a vehicle produced in numbers fewer than ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1953 Bristol 403 2 Door Saloon across different levels of condition. Edit options.

7 Aug 2023, 10:30 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea // All Bristols were low-volume cars, and the 403 was no exception. While production lasted two years, the British firm sold only 287 units.