Bristol aviation heritage

The Gallery · Blenheim Palace · 2–6 September 2026

Bristol atSalon Privé.

An 80th-anniversary presentation connecting Bristol’s aviation origins, its motor-car heritage and the final production series of the Fighter.

At the event

Eighty years shown as one continuous line of thought.

Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The Bristol 400 stands inside The Gallery and the new-build Fighter is presented outside it: the first Bristol and the latest, eighty years apart and unmistakably related.

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Inside The Gallery

Bristol 400

The first Bristol motor car opens the story within the covered Gallery display, eighty years after it was built.

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Outside The Gallery

The black Fighter

The full new-build V10 Fighter is presented outside The Gallery, is available for sale, and is scheduled to join the event parade programme.

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Concours · 2–3 September

Celebrating 80 years

A dedicated concours class brings together significant Bristol motor cars from across the marque’s history, a class Bristol has been glad to support by helping bring the cars together.

Side profile of the full new-build black Bristol Fighter

The drama is in the idea, not the decoration.

Full new-build black Bristol Fighter framed by a brick opening

Available for sale

A full new build from the final six.

The completed black Fighter is available for sale. It is not a restored historic display car, but a newly built motor car from Bristol’s final production series.

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The final production series

The black car is available.Four further chassis remain.

A second Fighter has been commissioned and sold. Each of the four remaining chassis can be commissioned to an individual specification, the Fighter T among them.

Discuss the final series

Bristol Cars Group

Richard Hackett

Chairman, Bristol Cars Group Ltd

A working life connected to Bristol, its owners and its cars.

Richard Hackett has been connected with Bristol cars since the 1960s. His career has included Anthony Crook Motors, Bristol’s Kensington showroom and, later, the creation of SLJ Hackett to support Bristol owners and their cars.

Read Richard’s biography

After Salon Privé

What comes after the Fighter is already taking shape.

The next Bristol

Fighter sales and commissions

Speak directly to Bristol about the completed car or a final chassis.

Email the Bristol team directly, or copy an address for use in webmail.