Bristol
Bristol Cars was born in 1945 as the car division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which used BMW 326/327/328 designs acquired as war reparations to build the 400 — a hand-built aluminium-bodied sports saloon of aircraft-industry quality. Through the 1950s the marque built its own six-cylinder cars, before switching to Chrysler V8 power with the 407 in 1961 and running quietly and hand-built for another half-century. Bristol never advertised, sold from a single London showroom, and closed in 2011. The back catalogue — from the Superleggera-bodied 401 to the V10-engined Fighter supercar — is now a closed book with a small but devoted following.
Bristol 400 / 401 / 402 / 403
The first Bristols — BMW 326/327/328 engineering, hand-built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company's car division.
Bristol 404 / 405 / 406
The short-wheelbase 404 'businessman's express', the four-door 405 and the 2.2-litre 406 — the last of the BMW-derived six-cylinder Bristols.
Bristol 407 / 408 / 409 / 410 / 411
The first Chrysler-V8 Bristols — from the 407 to the big-block 411, hand-built Anglo-American GTs.
Bristol Beaufighter
Turbocharged Zagato-styled targa — the rare, thinly traded turbo Bristol of the 412 family.
Bristol Blenheim
The last traditional hand-built Bristol — a discreet Chrysler-V8 saloon produced quietly until the marque's 2011 closure.
Bristol Fighter
Bristol's Viper-V10-powered gullwing supercar — built in tiny numbers before the marque's 2011 collapse.