The Bristol 400 Motorcar - My brief experience of this superlative machine
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Click on to enlarge Christopher Balfour's Bristol 400 in Davos Switzerland in the 1960s 'BRISTOL BEACH' If any of my readers share my passion for classic cars (rare enough I think) and Bristols in particular do click on something I wrote about my brief one year experience of owning one of these great machines while at university in Sydney Australia in 1966. I came across this amusing and terribly nostalgic essay concerning my youth quite by chance. Click on: https://app.box.com/s/p07vebizqwvs79etcqnyc1exhv086ydo This link is to the story now on a cloud, originally on a website set up by the peerless Ashley James in the UK who restored a Bristol 400 to perfection. His brilliant technical and advice website concerning his long history and restoration of the magnificent Bentley Mk VI model, his restoration of an Austin-Healey Mk III and many fascinating articles from fellow enthusiasts are also available. Well worth reading whatever classi