[Geoff Kingston]

There are some owners on this forum who no doubt have already gone down that route and may well be willing to share there experiences with you .Octane gave the S6 a very good write up and the standard of the restored cars that BCL had at the Filton event was very high as were the cars present from some of their. West Country competitors. Don't dismiss the BCL option based on Eric's comments or the suggestion that some sort of complaints option should be set up on this site.
Eric was after all talking about a much older car which he wanted to enter into and hopefully stand up to a mechanically very demanding retrospective event, his will not be the first newly restored car to break under those conditions and certainly not the last. I would love to be able to afford to send my 411 to patchway for the full works upgrade and restoration as I would one of my old 401's or 403's to Spencer Lane Jones or Tony Mitchell for restoration and upgrades to my own requirements. but I would do so in the knowledge that things won't always work out perfectly first time round and some totally unexpected problems can develop if only because something fails as another part of the car is now performing better than it was before or when it was new.
Also some parts that we all rely on for our older cars, points, rotor arms,distributor caps and in my case the electronic didistributortself simply aren't up to original equipment specification.
While Eric has been telling us about his problems and others have been replying, my 1993 Range Rover LsLesas broken down twice having been repaired by a local Land Rover specialist, he replaced the distributor because of mechanical wear and we are now on the third replacement in two weeks , not because there is anything wrong with the vehicle to cause the fault just because the ignition amplifiers on the replacements are a load of crap!!
The garage if now fitting an amplifier from another supplier BUT up and till now I must have over the years bought hundreds of parts for Land Rovers and Range Rovers from the after market source that supplied the Distributor and this experience while frustrating would not put me off buying from them again.
........... I have only ever had good service from Bristol Cars, I have always been a purchaser of parts but have. sufficient confidence in the standard of their work and the way they do business to recently purchase a reconditioned 2 Litre engine from them. Which ever choice you make just be realistic that there could be teething problems and as with any old car these could take a bit of time to s long and if. like me you have ever been involved in recommissioning a car after a long slumber you will know exactly what I mean.