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Old 02-05-09, 04:30 PM
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Default Blenheim Lusso

I do like this design, although it is rather modern, with integrated front and rear bumpers, it could be based on a 406, or 407. Either could get a close fit to this design, although the roofline is very different.

If the 406 rear end was sculptured in a similar fashion reducing the smallish fins into a rounded section and if the front was more sloped as in the Lusso and finished off at both ends with what I am having done to my 406, slim V-shaped polished alloy bars, I believe it could look very smart. I am having a modification done to inset the front blinkers using a vent like section with a copy small V-shaped bar in middle of vent section and DB4 like parking and turn lights set in the outer edges. The air intake (small) will be piped to either an oil cooler or directly to disc brakes. The main issue is to try and give the car a leaner, slimmer side section in profile and I am guessing painting the sill below door bottom black might do that trick. The roof is quite high and the Lusso has a lower roofline.

Pity Bristol hasn't a design like this for the Blenheim. I am sure this is inline with Giacomo's idea of a re-skin. Perhaps you could seel the design to BCL!

Clyde
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