Bristol Pinin-Farina

[kieron39]

Was the Bristol Pinin-Farina ever built and if so what has happened to it?

[penman]

Hi
The register shows 3x 400 FARs, 4x 401 FARs and 1x 403P in existence whether there is/was another Farina proposal I don't know.
What was it that you have heard?

[kieron39]

Hi there.

I was just flicking through Chris Balfours' book and came across an old ad for said car but I cannot find any pictures of it in the metal.

[penman]

Hi
If you are refering to the ad on p110
There are photos of TMX544 on the BOC site in the members area.
Looks very much as if it is one of the type advertised, so it looks as if there were at least 4, Chassis Nos 202, 208, 210, 216.
There are also 4 missing chassis Nos 203, 213, 214, 215 from that area of the list, so who knows what they were.

[Geoff Dowdle]

Hello, as well as 401's with Farina bodies you listed , the Aldington's
/BAC earlier commissioned at least three 400 chassis 101, 102 in late
1946/early 1947 & chassis 181 possibly a little later , there could have
also been more.
Geoff D

[Kevin H]

There are photos of one on this site in the Image Groups under 400

http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/g...00-farina.html

http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/g...-interior.html

http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/g...-rear-qtr.html

[kieron39]

Thanks for that chaps.

[Geoff Dowdle]

The 400 & 401 chassis were bodied by Farina before the company changed it
name to Pinninfarina . I don't know the timing of this or why , maybe some
one can enlighten us
Geoff D

[penman]

Hi
Looking at this, Battista Farina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia it was the man who changed his name, not the company.

[Rubbond]

Actually Geoff if you read the Wikipedia text it says that Battista Farina
set up his own company "Carrozzeria Pininfarina" in 1930, and that his
brother's company, where he had previously worked, Stabilimenti
Industriali Farina, was absorbed into Carozzeria Pininfarina sometime in
the early fifties. He changed his name, it says, in 1961.

[Geoff Dowdle]

Rubbond , Thanks for the info .



I understand the 400& 401's were produced by " Stabilimenti
Industriali Farina " not Pininfarina . But can not find the reference .

Geoff