The eccentric, elegant and ultra-rare Bristol Fighter spearheads a doughty brand’s rebirth
Wallpaper | 02.09.2026 15:30
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, I experienced the late flowering glory of Bristol Cars, an eccentric British manufacturer approaching the end of its first historic epoch. Spun off from the Bristol Aeroplane Company (founded in 1918), Bristol Cars parlayed the inter-war manufacturing experience it had gleaned from making car and bus bodywork into proper automotive manufacturing.
