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Bristol cars assets are being sold off due to the company being liquidated. Some interesting things for sale from complete cars, wooden bucks, tools and even the famous neon Bristol cars sign from outside the London hq. Sad times.

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Wyles Hardy & Co. | Timed Online Auction of the Historic Assets of Bristol Cars Limited

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Ooooohhhhhh.....,..

All kind of useful miscellaneous Garage kit for those with a need.

Does anyone know what's happened to the Brand name?

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I didn't know they had a site in Windlesham, just down the road from me. The sign from there is for sale but requires a Risk Assessment and Method Statement for collection as it's still screwed to the wall :D

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ChipChop said:
Bristol cars assets are being sold off due to the company being liquidated. Some interesting things for sale from complete cars, wooden bucks, tools and even the famous neon Bristol cars sign from outside the London hq. Sad times.

www.bidspotter.co.uk

Wyles Hardy & Co. | Timed Online Auction of the Historic Assets of Bristol Cars Limited

Bid Live at Wyles Hardy & Co. 's Timed Online Auction of the Historic Assets of Bristol Cars Limited auction
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So sad .

Were he still alive , I’m sure a certain Leonard John Kensell Setright would have been at the head of the queue for many of these items .

I knew someone who owned a 402 and had runs in it a couple of times - magnificent machine it was .
 
LJKS: there's a name I haven't seen for a while.
 
The Bristol Owners' Club claims it is "actively engaged" with the liquidators in order to "preserve what we can of the heritage and associated spares for the marque".

"It's our hope that the assets can be kept together and, as a priority, a safe home can be found for the archive," it said in a statement.

www.autocar.co.uk

Bristol Cars loses appeal against liquidation | Autocar

Eccentric British car maker must be dissolved to pay creditors, but owners' club vows to save its assets
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He was a huge proponent of Bristol Cars ( also Citroën and Mercedes-Benz ) , he must be spinning in his grave at this news .
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Setright was already on casket fast spin because of Supercars, Shme150, banned Sobranies, SUV's, and Poulter owning 16 Ferraris he doesn't drive.

Some say they too would be fond of Bristols if their first wife had topped herself in one ....
 
For those interested in these fine cars...

Autocar Bristol 407 road test 1961

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Bristol 407 Road Test 1961

Autocar magazine road test scan from 6th October 1961. 948 MHT - Untaxed since 1992.
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and as a mini tribute to LJK Setright...

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LJK Setright Drives The Ferrari 250 GT, 275 GTB4, 365 GTB4 Daytona, Dino 246 Spyder & 365 GT4 2+2 1977

CAR magazine Ferrari feature from July 1977. 250 GT 8JGN: Now on a LR Discovery 275 GTB4 TPL 6F: Tax Status: Licence Not Due Expiry Date: 01/09/2012 Registration Date: 27/02/1968 Daytona WLX 86M: No data. Dino TPE 774M: No data. 365 GT4 4+4 JNO 900N: Tax Status: SORN Not Due Expiry...
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ChipChop said:
For those interested in these fine cars...

Autocar Bristol 407 road test 1961

www.flickr.com

Bristol 407 Road Test 1961

Autocar magazine road test scan from 6th October 1961. 948 MHT - Untaxed since 1992.
www.flickr.com www.flickr.com

and as a mini tribute to LJK Setright...

www.flickr.com

LJK Setright Drives The Ferrari 250 GT, 275 GTB4, 365 GTB4 Daytona, Dino 246 Spyder & 365 GT4 2+2 1977

CAR magazine Ferrari feature from July 1977. 250 GT 8JGN: Now on a LR Discovery 275 GTB4 TPL 6F: Tax Status: Licence Not Due Expiry Date: 01/09/2012 Registration Date: 27/02/1968 Daytona WLX 86M: No data. Dino TPE 774M: No data. 365 GT4 4+4 JNO 900N: Tax Status: SORN Not Due Expiry...
www.flickr.com www.flickr.com
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I used to buy CAR magazine every month , and started almost everytime with his pages .

One exception was the one with the launch of the W126 , and I drove that actual car featured in the magazine ( reg was something like TLB 10W ) and it was the first RHD car to reach these shores ; little did I dream I would end up owning three of them years later .
 
MikeInWimbledon said:
Setright was already on casket fast spin because of Supercars, Shme150, banned Sobranies, SUV's, and Poulter owning 16 Ferraris he doesn't drive.

Some say they too would be fond of Bristols if their first wife had topped herself in one ....
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Yes , I remember that , ISTR she did that to get back at him .
 
I’ll never forget marvelling at a Bristol parked outside a posh hotel some 47 years ago and the body was completely wrapped in a velvet type material
 
Pontoneer said:
I used to buy CAR magazine every month , and started almost everytime with his pages .
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I was also a big fan of CAR. I really liked LJKS, although he could be a bit of an acquired taste at times. I also liked Ronald Barker and Steve Cropley too. I loved reading their prose - each article was as much an English lesson as it was about the cars :)
 
We’ve had a couple of Bristol threads on here over the years so I’ll relate my story again. Please don’t judge.

The father (Mick) of one of my friends was an extremely hard drinking Irish guy who was a rigger in the film business. This is a guy who was a drinking buddy of Richard Harris, Oliver Read etc etc.
He was pissed as a fart one evening while working on a movie in the French countryside when he stupidly decided to drive his Bristol back to the hotel.
Not so long after this the Bristol was in pieces all across the road with an in uprooted tree nearby. Mick walked away without a scratch.

Bristols were good cars. And he replaced it with another one.
 
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Darrell said:
We’ve had a couple of Bristol threads on here over the years so I’ll relate my story again. Please don’t judge.

The father (Mick) of one of my friends was an extremely hard drinking Irish guy who was a rigger in the film business. This is a guy who was a drinking buddy of Richard Harris, Oliver Read etc etc.
He was pissed as a fart one evening while working on a movie in the French countryside when he stupidly decided to drive his Bristol back to the hotel.
Not so long after this the Bristol was in pieces all across the road with an in uprooted tree nearby. Mick walked away without a scratch.

Bristols were good cars. And he replaced it with another one.
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Well , they were , basically, war repairations from BMW .
 
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