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29-07-16, 08:23 AM
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Bristol 400 in Rhodesia
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I'm Colin's son, now living in New Zealand. I remember Dad buying the 400 in about 1970. It was white and had had a pick-up box installed in place of the boot lid. However, the farmer still had the boot lid and re-fitted it for us when he delivered the car. If I remember right, the car cost $100 at the time. Dad had the car repainted to its original maroon in 1975, shortly before we emigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa. I used to drive it often as a teenager and can remember rebuilding the engine and later replacing the clutch. The seats were the original leather, but needed replacing the last I saw it. Dad sold it well after I migrated to New Zealand, probably sometime in the late 1990's or early 2000's. I don't know who bought it, nor where it went. Mum and Dad passed away 3 years ago, so I've no way of finding out. I would love to hear where the car is now. I do recall one other Bristol in Rhodesia (as it was at the time). Keith Simmonds had a pale yellow 401 that he took to Durban, South Africa when he migrated (some time around 1980, from memory). Keith has also passed on, and his car was sold to another owner in South Africa in the early 1990's (again, from memory, but I may be out on timing). 
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29-07-16, 10:02 AM
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gmorris ,
Your Dad's 400 was Chassis 400/1/559 Car 400/A/322 Original engine 85A/1404 Fitted Engine 85A/1459 (ex 400/601) Original Colour , Metallic Green >White >Maroon Despatched ex BAC/Filton to University Motors/London 8th Dec 1948 First owner Col. Stuart 2nd owner Eric Glasby /Rhodesia (the Bristol & AC agent for Southern Africa) 3rd Owner Jim Southern (possibly raced by J Southern in Mashonaland 100 in 1957) poss 6th owner pre 1965 Deryk Lamb/ Tandaai, via Umtali, Rhodesia 7th owner c1969 Colin Morris 8th owner late 90's ??????? I have no idea of its current location or owner Mr Brian Evans of RSA owned 4 Bristols in the 80's (400 , 401 , 403 & 404 )and could know of 400/559 current owner . If you look through my earlier posts Glasby imported quite a few Bristol & AC Attached is the only photo I have of it. 400 559 D Lamb c1967.JPG Do you have any photos of it when your Dad owned it ?? Regards Geoff Dowdle/Sydney/Australia BOC Joint 400 Registrar
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29-07-16, 10:29 AM
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400 ex-Rhodesia
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That photo showing the pick-up box is definitely the car we had! I'm surprised to hear it was despatched in early 1948. We always believed it to be a 1949 car. We found traces of maroon paint on it and then a pale (not metallic) green on the car, which is why we had it repainted in maroon to match what we found. I will have other photos of the car in both white and maroon. I will look out whatever I can find, but it may take some time as we're in the process of moving house. For the record, the car had registration number 476R on it when it left Rhodesia, one of the 'new' reflective yellow plates. The TU Rego in South Africa was from the Roodepoort region where we lived. Dad would most likely have sold it with this number still on the car.
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20-06-20, 10:31 AM
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Bristol 403 and 404 owned by Karl Lucouw
I would like to know where these cars are?
Bristol 403 chassis no 403/1480 Bristol 404 chassis no 404/2003 I built and installed the interiors of these cars for Karl Lucouw when they were restored orginallly The Bristol 404 pictures at the Bonhams auction back in mid 2000's still had the grey leather interior that I built and installed for Karl Lucouw. I hope someone can help as I have video of these two cars and myself on Karl Lucouw's estate outside Pretoria, South Africa. I now live in the U.K. Rod
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