Descripción
Stunning Bristol Brigand, a work of art.
Amazing provenance with complete service history from new.
Bare metal respray (in stunning Aston Martin DB5 colour 'Black Pearl') was over £27k. Retrim at Bristol was over £12K. New carpets, new headlining, new window/ door rubbers/ seals, new tyres, new windscreen, exemplary condition. Has the best available hifi (multiple audiophile amplifiers and Focal speakers) installed. The car has been featured in the national press.
Very recent work includes new Bristol oem radiator, new high-torque starter motor (original refurbished and retained), new additional electric fuel pump, new brake master cylinder, new brake servos, new Optima red top battery, battery isolator, full engine and gearbox service, other improvements. Driven regularly, driving brilliantly, forever brings a smile to your face, nothing compares in terms of driving or general ownership experience.
Now on number plate B9 GND.
Last MOT with no advisories.
Owned by BOC/ BODA member for over 5 years.
POA means price is market rate and negotiable, thank you! :-)
* Full History*:
Of note is the fact that most owners bought the car from Bristol Cars’ Kensington Showroom and, hence the car's successful and affluent previous owners – almost all company directors - are fully documented.
* Early owners are as follows:*
The original owner from new – in 1988 - was David Holland, described by Spectator magazine as ‘a barrister turned property developer, and owner of company Grovewood securities’. Mr Holland kept the car to 17k miles and the history file includes 5 invoices from Bristol Cars for servicing and enhancement during this period. Grovewood securities got into financial difficulties – indeed the Spectator magazine notes the company went under in the relevant property crash – and Bristol Cars bought the car before re-selling it to Donald Starkey.
Superyachts. com lists the second owner Mr Starkey as one of the world’s most successful yacht designers, having won 26 awards for his designs. Mr Starkey kept the car for 23k miles – up to 40k miles – with the history file including 7 invoices from Bristol Cars across this period.
The car later passed to its 3rd owner, Mr Louis Greig, listed as a Private Banker based in Holland Park. Mr Greig added 14 invoices from Bristol Cars his ownership. Mr Greig part-exchanged the car with Bristol against a used Bristol Blenheim and, the car was then sold to the 4th owner, pension fund manager John Mant, who later again traded the car with Bristol Cars for a brand new Bristol Blenheim 3.
* Latest owners are as follows:*
The Will Young Years:
In 2009 singer-songwriter-entertainer Will Young visited the Bristol Cars showroom in Kensington, and then purchased the car, now showing circa 90k miles. Tony Crook of course offered to specify the car to Mr Young’s preferences and to ensure the car was mechanically ‘tip top’, i. e. replacing any consumables that could be replaced. After paying and adding an invoice to the history file for £26k, Mr Young took delivery of the car with new oxblood hide – a beautiful interior that remains to this day.
In the following year, 2010, Mr Young and his Bristol Brigand are featured in the Daily Mail. Mr Young notes [the car] ‘is just like my idea of perfection. I sit in the front room and look out the window at my car. I’ve been all over the country in it already. It’s quite a good cruiser, quick with a massive engine. I had the car done up to perfection’. Later in the year, the perfection went further, with Mr Young having Bristol Cars install a new (albeit new old stock) Chrysler 360 engine, at heavily discounted cost of £7k. The invoice – added to the file – notes ‘Brian Marelli has somewhat run in the engine driving the car home and back but another 600 miles are needed before the engine is run in’. There’s also an additional invoice for labour and fuel to return the car to Mr Young at Simon Fuller’s record company, XIX entertainment.
In 2011, Mr Young is quoted in the Daily Telegraph: ‘I bought a Bristol Brigand. I like old cars and I’ve wanted one for 10 years. There was one for sale in a garage I drive past most days and I thought ‘Like is too short, I’m going to have it’'.
* Latest history*
In 2012 the car was purchased by Ian Lillycrap, the owner of a Cornwall chain of estate agents. Mr Lillycrap is also a philanthropist and is pictured online with King Charles (then Prince Charles). Mr Lillycrap lavished £35k on the car, including the aforementioned respray at SprayTec, Aston Martin respray specialists, but he effectively only purchased the car because it had been owned by Will Young - more follows - and over 4 years of ownership he drove the car only 40 miles. (Multiple invoices are present for professionally moving he car by trailer to, for example, Spraytec and Bristol specialists Brabazon Motors, before the car was placed into storage with storacar. com, which itself was £249 per month...)
Interestingly Mr Lillycrap built a collection of cars which had all been owned by someone famous, with the 12 cars in the collection owned by (amongst others) Will Young (of course), Princess Diana (the famous Audi cabriolet), the Queen (rip), Elton John, Princess Margaret, Michael Winner and, even David Cameron. The cars were kept in a large heated underground garage. The whole collection of cars was later (2017) put up for auction and at the same time featured in all of the national press..
I purchased the car in 2017, aged at that time almost 50 (me, not the car which in 2023 is now 35). This was my first Bristol, having for many years having owned 90s Mercedes; but my father has owned a Bristol 411 mk3 since I was 15 – he still has it (pictured) – and previously my brother owned a different Bristol Brigand. I’ve used this car as an ‘active’ 2nd car and as such have ‘sorted the car out for standard and regular use’, which really means modernising/ updating ‘the starting specification’ of the car by adding contemporary starter motor, contemporary fuel pump, such that the car starts ‘first time every time’, i. e. better than the car was specified when new. Furthermore, during each year of ownership Autocar Repairs have been instructed do to whatever is needed. (Autocar Repairs are now London’s Bristol Car specialists and usually have 1 or 2 Bristols present on site being serviced – the owner of the garage John Tullett owns a 603 and a 411 and is on the BOC committee.) Finally I’ve added number plate B9 GND, which finishes the car off nicely.
