The following description was taken from the HAGERTY website; The Bristol 407 was a five-seater saloon produced from 1961 to 1963. The 407 combined the two-door steel-framed alloy-bodied coachwork of the Bristol 406 with a Chrysler 5.1-litre OHV V-8 engine. As with its predecessor, there were disc brakes on all four wheels and a transverse Watt’s linkage on the rear live axle but the front suspension was now via coil springs. In place of the 406’s rack-and-pinion steering, there was cam-and-roller - this was in order to cope with the heavier power plant. When Bristol launched the 407 in October 1961, there was much talk amongst the marque's cognoscenti about how the new engine was built in Canada to Bristol’s own specification, how the standard transmission was now Torqueflite automatic and of the top speed being in excess of 125 mph. The bodies were now constructed by Park Ward and the sole listed extra was a radio. The power output of 250bhp was more than 100% greater than the 406.