Reassembling begins: October 2013
Andrea Bedosti in Faenza is putting the body of #1404 right. Some aluminum patches were badly needed, especially ahead of the rear wheelarches
Situation was not so good, as can be seen quite easily from these pictures. Mimmo at Bedosti's cutting, cleaning, scraping, filling, shaping, welding.....
The firewall, cleaned
Several small panels in the engine bay and near the firewall were so badly corroded that new ones were needed and were built from scratch and custom-fitted
We are wondering if this the correct shape of the tubes of the ENOTS system....
Some of the tubes supporting the body were badly corroded; they have been cut and new tubes put in
Those wonderful, cochlea-shaped Lucas horns have been cleaned and restored
The firewall has been stripped and repainted; discrete components are being refitted, some just being tried for size before being refurbished
Every aluminum duct and panel of the early 2-litre Bristols is superbly crafted. These are the details that set these Bristols apart from their contemporary rivals; you understand that this car was really built in an aircraft factory, by people used to build not automobiles but rather night-fighters and bombers. Small wonder that they were so expensive
