LHD production numbers

[Richard]

Originally Posted by 412usa

I would appreciate it if you could contact the seller of the German 412 to find the chassis number.

I have spoken to the widow of the owner who is selling the car due to the death of her husband. The car (LHD) is registered in Tessin in Switzerland and is located there.
It was originally bought by a Bristol specialist in Switzerland and the present owner bought it there about 10 years ago after selling his 2L (a 405 I think).
The chassis number is 412S 207870219 which doesn't appear in the BOC list.
The owner's wife speaks English so you can contact her on the number given on the mobile.de website if you wish.
Hope this helps
Richard

[TLF799R]

Looking at the car it is a series 2 and not a Beaufighter.

Philippa

Originally Posted by Richard

I have spoken to the widow of the owner who is selling the car due to the death of her husband. The car (LHD) is registered in Tessin in Switzerland and is located there.
It was originally bought by a Bristol specialist in Switzerland and the present owner bought it there about 10 years ago after selling his 2L (a 405 I think).
The chassis number is 412S 207870219 which doesn't appear in the BOC list.
The owner's wife speaks English so you can contact her on the number given on the mobile.de website if you wish.
Hope this helps
Richard

[412usa]

The car looks the same in almost every respect to my 412usa, with the exception of the emission controls.



Peter

[lansdownplace]

It is an S2 body as it has the targa top, however it wears the Beau
nose and repeaters. It is odd that it has the single exhaust given
there is no evidence of the turbo charger and it has a clock rather
than a boost gauge in the instrument binnacle, but as I said it has
the pigs trotter exhaust. The question is, was this a factory pre-
production styling exercise for the Beaufighter, Was it the first/one of the first Beaufighters that was later neutered or is it an S2 an owner
have it's appearance upgraded later?

Any ideas?

Paul

[Kevin H]

Originally Posted by Richard

The owner's wife speaks English so you can contact her on the number given on the mobile.de website if you wish.

I can't find this car in the mobile.de site - is that where it is?
Does anyone have a direct link to it?

Thanks,
Kevin

[406Special]

Kevin,

It's now on the classic driver site as per link
http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/find...lCarID=1784508

Clyde

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Kevin Howard

I can't find this car in the mobile.de site - is that where it is?
Does anyone have a direct link to it?

Kevin,
It's not easy to find on the mobile.de site but click on the link. The car is in Switzerland and the private vendor in Germany.
This is not the same 412 as on the Classic Driver site. On the Classic Driver site the car is in the UK and the vendor/dealer (Michael Brinkert) in Germany.
Regards
Richard

[Jervaulx]

Whitewall tyres, side marker lights and those headlights remind me of an
American specification vehicle. I wonder where it was originally registered
when new?

Andrew

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Jervaulx

I wonder where it was originally registered when new?

I understand it was originally registered in Switzerland and has always been there. The present owner bought it from the original owner some years ago.
Richard

[TLF799R]

Hi Andrew,

I would be pretty certain that this is one of the missing "USA" 412s. The brochure for the USA shows two LHD USAs, neither of which appear to be either this car or Peter's so that makes it a minimum of 4 to account for!

I suspect that these are tucked in alongside the Beaufort production run. Everything I can see on the Swiss car says it is what we refer to as a USA spec. The USAs even appear to have their own special hubcap badges.

It may not have the cat as it was going to Switzerland.

So where are the rest?

Philippa

Originally Posted by Jervaulx

Whitewall tyres, side marker lights and those headlights remind me of an
American specification vehicle. I wonder where it was originally registered
when new?

Andrew

[Richard]

Originally Posted by TLF799R

I would be pretty certain that this is one of the missing "USA" 412s.

The cover of "Bristol - an Illustrated History" by Charles Oxley published in 1990 has a picture of a Zurich registered 412 looking remarkably similar (to my untrained eyes) to the Swiss 412 in the mobile.de ad. The same car?
Richard

[Jervaulx]

Thanks Philippa.

The whitewall tyres and the marker lights are big giveaways for me. It
seems a nice car either way.

Andrew

[TLF799R]

Hi Richard,

I'd think it pretty unlikely that there are two Swiss registered USAs, so yes, I agree, I think this may well be the same car. I have contacted the owner to find out more...

Philippa

Originally Posted by Richard

The cover of "Bristol - an Illustrated History" by Charles Oxley published in 1990 has a picture of a Zurich registered 412 looking remarkably similar (to my untrained eyes) to the Swiss 412 in the mobile.de ad. The same car?
Richard

[Kevin H]

Originally Posted by Richard

Kevin,
It's not easy to find on the mobile.de site but click on the link.

Thanks Richard. I can only view the default photo full size, when I click on one of the smaller photos it gives me a popup with some text in German, which I can't read (I allowed popups), but after that it just keeps giving me the same default front qtr view image when I click on one of the smaller images.

Is anyone else able to see the other images full size?

Regards,
Kevin

[Kevin H]

Originally Posted by Kevin Howard

Thanks Richard. I can only view the default photo full size,

Scratch that, I have swicthed to English which helped! Now it's working.

Thanks,
Kevin