Vintage 1948 BMW Bristol 400

[Timmer]

BMW history at its best.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/bmw/unspecified/1264092.html

Tim

[ecpreston]

WOW. :-o

[norm]

I think the year is wrong...It must be a 1958

Norm

[mcmil]

No DOHC 328 motors for BMW or Bristol! They just looked that way due to valve arrangement. They all had triple carbs too!

[RIMSPOKE]

BMW WAS NOT BUILDING CARS IN 1948 .

KEEP IN MIND THAT THEIR CAR FACTORY WAS LOCATED IN EISENACH BUT AFTER THE WAR , IT WAS IN COMMUNIST EAST GERMANY !

THEY STILL HAD THE FACTORY IN MUNICH BUT IT WAS SET UP TO BUILD MOTORCYCLES , NOT CARS .

THAT DIDN'T MEAN THEY COULDN'T LICENSE THEIR DESIGNS &

SUPPLY COMPONENTS TO OTHER COMPANIES , LIKE BRISTOL & VERITAS .

THE MOTOR IS MOST LIKELY A CRATE ENGINE LEFT OVER FROM BEFORE THE WAR .

THE LOW PRODUCTION NUMBERS OF THE BRISTOL MEANT

IT WAS NOT A LARGE UNDERTAKING TO KEEP THEM SUPPLIED WITH PARTS .

THIS WAS GOOD BUSINESS FOR THEM DURING THOSE YEARS SINCE

IT ALLOWED BMW TO RAISE THE CAPITAL IT TOOK TO GET BACK INTO CAR PRODUCTION ,

WHICH THEY MANAGED TO BO BY THE EARLY 50's