Part-finished restoration project with all items to complete “Many chassis improvements – 100BHP and 100MPH.

In worthy successor to the Bristol 401” “The 403 has put the Bristol very indeed among the worlds best cars, and as an extremely fast machine of immense refinement and superb handling qualities it is probably unique.

We should indeed be proud of this fine example of British craftmanship”.

John Bolster Autocar 1953 Following World War II, British airplane manufacturer Bristol received the designs of BMW’s 328 racing engine, among the most successful of the pre-war era, as war reparations.

Bristol took the engine, with its unusual dual pushrod-operated exhaust valves, and improved it for durability and reliability, then installed it in a new grand tourer with sensuously streamlined coachwork.

The original model, the 400, would spawn four further series with steadily improved chassis engineering and refined styling.

The 403, of 1953–55, featured an engine with larger valves a...