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SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« on: January 09, 2010, 07:58:26 AM »
Precise details on what this is please to earn a point.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2015, 07:01:56 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2010, 10:10:03 AM »
Wheels are very Bristol.

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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2010, 07:13:37 PM »
This is a long shot:
Is it a Pininfarina-styled Maserati A6 G 2000 early variant?

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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2010, 06:48:12 AM »
Not a Maserati, but Hubert is on to some with the Bristol wheels!
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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 02:28:09 PM »
Experts?
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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2010, 06:24:55 AM »
Yes, it is a Bristol, a 401 rebodied after a crash in the David Creed workshops in London.

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Re: Djetset #284
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 08:49:50 AM »
Very well done Franck, you got it.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2010, 02:39:59 PM »
Where's Ivan Drago when he's really needed?
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2010, 12:00:14 AM »
Another image of the car when it was new

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2010, 07:36:31 AM »
Thank you Woodinsight, I have never seen a front view of this car.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2010, 10:30:32 AM »
And i've never seen a rear view before!
Does anyone know what happened to this one? I might be wrong but I seem to remember it being in a dilapidated state on Brian May's 'Bristol farm' several years ago....

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2015, 06:58:08 PM »
added a photo -

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #284 - Creed-bodied Bristol 401
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2015, 07:02:15 AM »
Puzzle pic restored
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