Brizzle shizzle seeks pilot.

[Des]

This shagged out old donk is still up for grabs.

 

 

I have 'sold' it on my brothers ebay account, overseas bidder who I turned down / didn't comply with his request to allow foreign bids, explained that I will need the thing removed promptly, so he gets his pal in the UK to bid on his behalf, and would you believe it won't be able to collect for a couple of weeks.

It's up for grabs at £1500 to anyone who collects within 1 - 2 weeks, I just know the arsehole will string me along for Months by which time bulldozers will have come and gone and the tarmac the car now sits on will be no more.

 

Onto the car, it's an engine rape victim, I bought it to do a re-shell, on a glowing description of being a low mileage barn find with history and all chroming redone, welded up, needing minor paintwork etc. I was going away, had someone collect, couple of weeks pass before I meet it and I thought I'd been given the wrong car. Must have been a pretty leaky barn, the history turned out to be a two page printout from an owners club, the fresh chrome was limited to the windscreen frame and a couple of lamp rims, and the welding? Well someone's made a half arsed start that needs kicking out of the way and beginning from scratch. It needs a rebuild. In it's favour, instruments are present, interior present so at worst will serve as templates or could be patched up for a scruffy stopgap maybe, all windows except one rear side present, shiny bits are there, and the registration can be sold to some sad impotent Audi driver who needs to make a statement. However I don't believe selling the reg will be a pleasant or worthwhile experience. Could be made into something tasty with modern oily bits, but will be a lot of work.

[vulgalour]

Not fair. I can make room for this, I could probably even arrange some sort of collection within the timescale, but I don't have £1500 lying about. I keep seeing it and wanting it, but I'm missing the vital money part of the transaction Curse my ill fortune!

[Largactil]

Lovely looking motor, Des - Such a shame the AC boys bum the engines from them; the internet seems to suggest that the 'proper' lump is worth upwards of £10k these days...(!)

 

I really hope this lives on, even if it's with a BMW engine

[HillmanImp]

That is amazing VFM. If I suddenly land myself £1500 I am coming to see you but it should not hang around long.

 

Make sure it goes to someone with a reputable name. I can see banger racers sniffing around it at that price.

[bigstraight6]

PM sent on behalf of a good friend!

[panhard65]

Mmmmm lovely looking motor does it have all the steering and suspension complete ? I saw a really scruffy one of these the other week running a triumph 6 cylinder lump. Where abouts are you ? I don't suppose you would be interested in anything as a p/ex. As cashflow isn't the best just now. Martin

[bigstraight6]

PM sent on behalf of a good friend!

 

Des I've sent a couple of PM's but can't see them in my sent mails so not sure if I've done something wrong, so could you possibly email my good friend directly on [email protected] with some more pics please? Thanks.

[Pete-M]

That thing would be ace with an M3 lump... just sayin', like....

[Des]

The car's in Harrow, and there are pics at http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130756728611

I didn't think of banger boys, although I've sniffed them out in the past, Not sure a Bristol would be of interest, not that well known a marque for making an 'OMG look wot I iz smashing up now!! LOLZ!! wot am I like!!' kind of statement. Steering and suspension is there, no brakes, components rolling aroung in boxes thanks to tinkering imbeciles, assume all needs ovehaul, don't know if I could consider a part ex as am losing space shortly, just disposed of 6 with more to go. Those AC boys are worse than banger racers, they've bum burgled many perfectly good cars just so they can partake in their fruity little version of the oval where they don't even bash into each other, the boring old farts. Although less common now as Bristol values have risen, and there was always a finite amount of victims for them to deflower, so the block is being manufactured again, £10K mind, so anyone thinking of restoring this car to original, the purchase cost is the very tip of a big, huge, not even been melted by the global warmingz enormous great iceberg.

[panhard65]

I do love this car and will try and find some cash this week unless someone beats me to it. Would it be totally wrong to put a modern diesel lump in there ?

[dieselnutjob]

it has no lump so any lump (such as diesel) would be an improvement

[Des]

Any engine would suffice, at the moment you could spend 10 to 15K and all your luck reserves sourcing the correct engine / box and you'll have a car that would fetch 8K, probably to a rapist. Values are rising, so maybe in a few years these cars value will match or exceed their component worth, so probably best to avoid any mutilation.

If I had time / space / energy / nothing better to do, I'd probably be looking for something 4 cylindered with a carb to impale on a type 9 for simplicity, so a Pinto then. The extortionate to rebuild front suspension / axle is a sub assembly that bolts onto a couple of big flanges on the ends of the chassis legs that stop short, wheel PCD is that of Merc, Audi, Granada, which would have me looking at what could be scored from such, to knock up an alternative front axle / subframe kind of thing to bolt in and keep original wheels, that would save splooging a grand on a handful of bushes and pins, add a set of Kingpin remould taxi tyres and the thing should cheaply do it's claimed 100MPH, might not slaughter a bunch of folk either.

[panhard65]

Well hopefully I can find some cash this week and see what can be done. There is a bloke local to me running this one.

His original engine blew and it's now on a 6 cylinder triumph so might be able to get a few pointers from him as whats best. A nice 4 cylinder diesel from a granada or similar is my idea or could always dump the body on a discovery chassis as I have a spare disco kicking about

[Morgan84]

Lets hope it gets back on the road again and gives pleasure to the lucky new owner

[trigger]

Just to bump this back up for Des, this one's been listed on ebay with a BIN for £1500 which makes he's one look even more of a baragin.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bristol-403-/ ... 43b3c935cf

[Des]

I'm actually just home from doing the deal, it's sold to a guy from Bournemouth, no messing around, so a good day which got even better when someone gave me this.

 

 

This isn't ratlook, this isn't ol'skool yo, this is an old roofrack on an old car, I might even use it to carry a bodybag, rope, clingfilm, knives and bonesaws whenever I finally snap and go hunting dubbers.

I won't kill them. Well not at first, not until I've had my fun. You got that scenetwats? I'm coming for you and you cannot hide, it's not possible, you just won't be able to keep from doing something purile to attract attention, that's your infantile nature. You need to kill yourself, do it.

Do it now before you find yourself on my table begging for death as I get busy with wire brushes, nitromors and lighter fuel.

 

(Guess who a dubbercockwand pissed off today)

[anonymous user]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C336135

Same one?

[worldofceri]

£3K mark-up* and hasn't even taken new photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*speculation, by me, obviously.

[Des]

To be honest, if I'd not needed a quick sale I would have priced it at about 3K, hope the guy enjoys all the wankers offering 500 like I did.

He's at least taken the trouble to bend over and add a few pics of the underside.

[Skizzer]

I was persuaded to buy it just recently as it was going to be used as a project at my son's University

 

there is no point in me kidding myself that I will find time to do it

 

personally I am not interested in restoration these days

 

This made me chuckle though:

could be put on another chassis and the mechanics bought up to date by using a Reliant Scimitar or Land Rover base

I love the idea of Scimitar running gear being 'up to date'.

 

Oh well, good luck to him I suppose.

[michiel]

This made me chuckle though:

could be put on another chassis and the mechanics bought up to date by using a Reliant Scimitar or Land Rover base

I love the idea of Scimitar running gear being 'up to date'.

 

Reminds me of this 1956 Prefect 'with modern mechanicals': turns out it has the engine and box from a 1979 Escort 1300 Automatic, which are 33 years old... 'With added comfort and safety of an 80s Escort'. Err, no. 15k euro plz.

[Guest]

Corrr bit of a touch that his son not going ahead with the University project, chance to triple your money. Are people that daft they don't realise Google finds most stuff?

[HillmanImp]

I think I might set up a false account on here and buy up the cheap cars and flog them on for loads more.

 

Not that I don't do that already but I do normally end up spending lots of time and money on other ones I get. I need a blatant cheeky cunt account.