Ronald ,
Have you ever owned a Bristol ?
Have you ever been in or driven one ?
Except for maybe RR & Bentley , Bristols have always been a exclusive hand made car . With a Chrysler 383 in my 411 S1 it would pull to 6000 rpm in top and then just idle along in top in city traffic , easy to maintain as a every day driver , which I did for eight years
My brother had a DBS V8 which I drove on a 400 mile trip , I was glad to get out of it & back into the 411.
A volume production car like a E type or even Austin Healey's making over $100 is ridiculous but it is a combination of supply & demand and restoration cost , which as you say is over $100k .
I believe any one buying a classic car for an investment is fool hardy, they are usually people that can not do the restorations themselves and see others making money on a rising market , but don't consider the hundreds of hours put into a restoration/rebuild.
I go back to my earlier statement , if that fully restored 408 is available under $40k it is cheap and you should buy it , use it and come back to this Forum after a few years with some first hand experience not just general talk about other cars you have owned or want to own.
Geoff
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