Bristol 405

About the Bristol 405

The Bristol 405 was manufactured by the Bristol Aeroplane Co. from 1955 to 1958. The model was a successor to the Bristol 403. The 405 was available as a four seat four door saloon and as a four seat two door drophead coupé.
The 405 itself was seen in two versions. The more common (265 of 308 built) is a four-door saloon built on the standard chassis of the previous Bristols, whilst the 405 Drophead or 405D (43 built) had a coupé body by Abbotts of Farnham and most built had a highly tuned (through advanced valve timing) version of the 2 litre six-cylinder engine called the 100C which developed 125 bhp (93 kW) as against the 105 bhp (78 kW) of the standard 100B 405 engine.