Famous Mini owners

[surfblue63]

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[mab01uk]

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Same screen as I get.

[mk1]

This link should work for everybody.

https://mk1-performance-conversions.co. ... es-mmt.mp4

[surfblue63]

Thanks Mark.

[surfblue63]

Mika Salo

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Helen Shapiro preferred the luxury of a Humber Sceptre to the Mini




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[mab01uk]

A viewer emailed Angela Rippon when she was presenting the 'GB News Breakfast Show' this morning, to say he remembered her bringing her Mini into his garage years ago....she replied she still has it, a 1960 Austin which she said is so old it is not called a Mini but an Austin Seven which of course is correct, only the Morris was named the Mini-Minor in 1960.


https://jannaludlow.co.uk/Classic_Minis ... brity.html

Angela Rippon on fast cars and the future of driving
Angela Rippon was the Top Gear’s first presenter back in the 1970s “When I was presenting it, it was very much magazine programming."
The legendary BBC journalist can’t hide her excitement when she’s talking about driving. Whether describing tearing up the motorway in her Mazda MX5 convertible or reminiscing about her antique Mini—“It came off the production line on 6 April, 1960 and they only started making them in the back end of 1959. It may be one of the oldest Minis on the road.”—it’s a subject you sense she could enthuse about for hours.
https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/lifesty ... of-driving


Presenting Top Gear in the Seventies.

[surfblue63]

Charlotte Rampling

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Jenny Clare (model)

[timell]

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[WMU 211G]

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It's not blue, it's actually black, it's his Radford 'LGF 695D'. That photo has been reproduced several times, it was taken on 20th May 1966 when George arrived at Chiswick House in West London, for the filming of the 'paperback Writer' promo...

Georges Mk1 Radford Cooper S LGF 695D Chiswick House film shoot Friday 20th May 1966a.jpg

[timell]

Drat, I was hoping it might have been a shot of him in his 65 Radford Cooper, FGO 592C before he gave it to his brother Pete.

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[mab01uk]

Drat, I was hoping it might have been a shot of him in his 65 Radford Cooper, FGO 592C before he gave it to his brother Pete.

Some photos here before restoration:-
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?p=227461#p227461

Is your photo above of the Mini currently under restoration?

[Pandora]

I assume the red parts reflect the original, and that Radford, widely regarded as the creme de la creme of quality craftsmen just didn't bother to paint the bits that were hidden?

A bespoke back street blow over? ( the back street being somewhat akin to Saville Row)

Al

[mab01uk]

I assume the red parts reflect the original, and that Radford, widely regarded as the creme de la creme of quality craftsmen just didn't bother to paint the bits that were hidden?

A bespoke back street blow over? ( the back street being somewhat akin to Saville Row)

Al

A friend of mine bought it at auction in 2013 for £22K (£26K including buyers premium) but has since sold it on unrestored.
https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/news/ ... s-weekend/

Another previous owner of the Peter Harrison Radford from 1979 to 1983 has just posted some photos below on the 'Surrey New MINI' forum. Not sure non-members can view that forum, so I have copied the post and photos by SNM forum member 'RadfordCooper' below:-
https://surreynewmini.forumotion.com/t7 ... 014#229813

Quote from the Surrey New MINI Forum
Posted by 'RadfordCooper' on 26-09-2019:-
"I owned this Radford Cooper 'FGO592C' in my youth, from 1979 to around 1983, My father helped to do it up a bit, I was always skint so the partial restoration was done on a shoe string. It was originally metallic black. I loved the car and would never have parted with had it not been for cash flow problems. I never got around to restistering it in my my name, as I thought I would have to give up the original Green Log Book, bearing Brian Epsteins signature."

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That’s a great little piece of the jigsaw of this car’s history filled in! Makes perfect sense that the owner after Peter Harrison would have been in Surrey as Peter moved down there to help look after George’s Estate. What we didn’t know about the car until recently though was that the original buyer of that car from Brian Epstein Autos is recorded as George Harrison in the Brydor ledger. It’s possible that the missing parts of the original Radford GT dash were removed during the partial restoration between ‘79 and ‘83. The black paint mentioned may well have been the repaint Peter Harrison gave it in the late 60s when Radford’s blue paint microblistered! (according to Peter’s wife Pauline). He was also irritated by the original Tartan Red paint in the boot!

Note Pete's quote on the 'original tartan Red paint' in the boot above. Apparently it was standard practice back in the day for Radford to only paint the outer panels and even to mask up things like headlights, etc rather than remove them before painting.

[timell]

I assume the red parts reflect the original, and that Radford, widely regarded as the creme de la creme of quality craftsmen just didn't bother to paint the bits that were hidden?

A bespoke back street blow over? ( the back street being somewhat akin to Saville Row)

Al

Having been present during most of it’s strip down, the best expression I can think of to describe a Radford is “all fur coat and no knickers”
Things like the said paint work, plus the central switch panel enlarged to take a radio with what must have been a hammer and cold chisel! Along with wood screws used to fix interior trim, and so on.
However, when finished with all the corner cutting covered up, they looked great!

Tim

[timell]

“Some photos here before restoration:-
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?p=227461#p227461

Is your photo above of the Mini currently under restoration?”
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Thanks Martin, I did manage to lift the pics from the other forum when they were first posted, but nice to have them archived here.
The car is very much a work in progress, I do have some immensely dedicated and skilful helpers though thankfully
Interestingly, according to the Brydor sales ledger, this mini is the only one actually owned by two of the Fab Four. Bought first by Paul, and then he must have changed his mind as his name was crossed out and George’s inserted, along with a different sales date……..

[Pete]

Could just have been a simple mistake in the ledger, doubt we’ll ever know and there were several other crossings out in that ledger but safe to say the buyer of the car was certainly recorded as George. Contrarily though however Pauline Harrison was adamant when I spoke with her that Peter bought it himself after visiting the Radford stand at the 1965 Motor Show! Will we ever know for sure, I doubt it but no doubt the boys did buy other cars for their family members and partners via Brydor, especially George so I can only assume George bought it for Peter, though ownership from Epstein Autos (Brydor as it became) wasn’t changed to Peter on the logbook until nearly a year after registration! So who knows. I’ve never seen that George photo with his car colour looking so blue! The version I first saw (fan photo) was indeed black.
Hope to have some Beatles Mini news soon!

[WMU 211G]

Could just have been a simple mistake in the ledger, doubt we’ll ever know and there were several other crossings out in that ledger but safe to say the buyer of the car was certainly recorded as George. Contrarily though however Pauline Harrison was adamant when I spoke with her that Peter bought it himself after visiting the Radford stand at the 1965 Motor Show! Will we ever know for sure, I doubt it but no doubt the boys did buy other cars for their family members and partners via Brydor, especially George so I can only assume George bought it for Peter, though ownership from Epstein Autos (Brydor as it became) wasn’t changed to Peter on the logbook until nearly a year after registration! So who knows. I’ve never seen that George photo with his car colour looking so blue! The version I first saw (fan photo) was indeed black.
Hope to have some Beatles Mini news soon!

You're such a tease Pete...!

[timell]

The Beatle mini's....a Magical Mystery Tour!

The pic is from Scorsese's documentary on George, Living in the Material World. I literally snapped the TV screen as it popped up.
Maybe they re-colourised it....it's certainly much 'cleaner' than the shot Nidge posted?
If you look closely, you can even see a reflection of what may be a 420 Jag parked next to him, almost as if the photographer was sitting in the Jag.

[Pete]

That’s interesting, I’ll take a look at the film tonight!