Bristol 406 [SEP] manufacturer
Bristol 406
The Bristol 406 was a luxury car produced between 1958 and 1961 by British manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Co. Their cars were constructed to very high engineering standards and were intended to be long-lasting to justify their very high price. Buyers might arrange considerable changes to the specification of their own particular vehicle. Bristol Aeroplane's car division later became Bristol Cars. 
It was the last Bristol to use the BMW-derived pushrod straight six engine that had powered all cars built by the company up to that point. In
named for the coach-builder). Claimed to be the fastest closed car of its day, only 101 were made before production was given over to the highly successful new sports car.
British Grand Tourers 1946-63 1947 Bristol 400 - 406.
Immediately following the second World War, H. J. Aldington, pre-war Frazer Nash manufacturer and BMW importer, sought out BMW's badly bombed Munich factory and there discovered the special-bodied open BMW 328, duly returning with it to Britain with a view to building