Jerry,
I'm the owner of Bex284, had car for 3 years, I bought the car with all the inner panels, chassis, all running gear and some body parts. I started the restoration with the idea of racing, tried to get a Bristol engine. Could not obtain one, so changed the front to a Ruddspeed (had a few Mays Head's) . The problem is I have too many project cars, Cobra, SP250, Aceca. So one must go!!!
BEX284 was raced for 1 year in 1957 and then sold in 1958, the guy who bought it went out of Keene's show room (Keene the original owner was a VW salesman). The car then crashed into a wall and wrote the front off and side.
I have restored the chassis and the previous owner started to restore the body. So what is for sale could quite easily be converted back to a bristol. As Keith said a good Bristol 100d is for sale and recently someone contacted me who would like to sale the front of an original bristol Ace to someone needing a front. So someone could by the Bristol and front and get an original BEX Ace. I have everything minus windscreen, wiring loom and rear brake drums (oops nearly forgot engine + gearbox).
Please shout if you want to discuss [john_abel289@hotmail.com] I have quite a few people interested.
John