Radford mini de ville colour cards found!!!

[nick rogers]

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And here is a poor pic I took of the interior showing Moto Lita and Austin centre badge. It now has a Formula wheel and correct Morris badge.

[Pete]

You can see in this still that the rear badges are low, maybe moved down to avoid the 'mural'.



I wonder who's idea it was to put Aston lights on the back of Macca's car? Either way you can see from this shot of Lennon's garage in '67 his Mini lurking in the background uses the same idea, Rolls yet to be vandalised...



Another fuzzy shot, George and Pattie..

[mini63]

I'm removing my 1/4 windows tomorrow to replace the rubber seals (hard to get and expensive cos only ONE supplier in Australia, none in UK of course). I'll take pics and post them..

Radford vents not same as Australian vents

[WMU 211G]

Surfblue & Pete, thanks for that gen

Pete - I have that garage shot of Lennon's Roller and Radford, it's the only colour one I've seen showing anything of the outside of the Mini, pity there aren't more about. I wonder if we'll have find out what really happened to it.

Nick - lovely pic of the Patti Boyd car, very nice... has it actually sold yet since Mike Abbas advertised it? (Woodie looks fab too).

[WMU 211G]

Going back to the two interior shots of Lennon's car - these were most likely taken by his ex-school mate, ex-Quarry Man and Apple employee Pete Shotton

Apparently all three shots at the beginning of this thread (plus a few other 'non car' shots) were taken by a certain Michael Herring, a 19 year old art student who simply door-stepped Lennon one day in May 1968. Lennon apparently took him in the back of his Mini down to Harrison's house (Kinfauns) where Ringo was also in attendance. The pics have been around for a while, in low res, but the story behind them only surfaced in a Daily Mail online article recently (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ocket.html ).
Maybe he sold the pictures as they're copyrighted, as most decent Beatles pictures are. Similarly the pictures I used for a Nesmith Radford article a while back cost about £40 each to get permission use!

Just had a proper read of that article Pete, interesting stuff. The low res versions of the two interior views of John's car have certainly been around for a long time, I've still got them on a floppy disc!

Nidge

[Nevsmini]

You can see in this still that the rear badges are low, maybe moved down to avoid the 'mural'.



I wonder who's idea it was to put Aston lights on the back of Macca's car? Either way you can see from this shot of Lennon's garage in '67 his Mini lurking in the background uses the same idea, Rolls yet to be vandalised...



Another fuzzy shot, George and Pattie..

Pete could it be possible it's Macca's car in Lennons over for a cup of tea and a puff of the funny stuff

[Nevsmini]

Maybe Bond was a big influence on the boys

[JC T ONE]

Maybe Bond was a big influence on the boys

Are you implying that mr Collins had a doubbel life ?

[surfblue63]

Connery showing how ones Aston rear lights should be arranged

[Tim Harber]

As we seem to have a Beatles/Radford thing going I have dug out a pic of a Radford(?) Woody that I had when I had the shop in Putney

It had a Mk2 grille stuck on it and some later bonnet badge which I swopped for something more oldie. I was going to hang on to it as I was using it as a daily driver but an American student customer kept on asking whether he could buy it and I finally let it go. He was going to ship it back to the States

I can remember little about it except:

It was allegedgly made for the Queens hairdresser or something similar

Wicker on the sides , I think

It was bloody uncomfy to drive as the seat bases were solid ply under the cushion and it looke like they may always have been so

It had always been black and wasn't super-dooper spec of everything but had a lot of the obvious features (like the seats) . Can't remember what the dash was like - don't think it was that special

Must have been late 80's

Memory fades ....but I am glad to have been kicked into the joys of Beatlemania on the web - I now know where I was on 29 October 1963 ! Could'nt hear the music for screaming!



Yes , it is a Turbo opposite Stuart

[rich@minispares.com]

fark me

you wouldn't see a bmw 2002 turbo just parked on a side street now-a-days!

[surfblue63]

I've got a Turbo for sale at the moment.

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Now we're going right off topic

[WMU 211G]

After 50 years in hiding this Radford Mini de ville colour card book has been found

Coming back to this I notice some of those paint shades are very close, if not the same as certain Jag and Aston colours of the period. Back in the '70s when I was still at middle school the old boy who lived opposite the school gate had an Aston DB6 in that dark metallic blue, he used to leave it sat on the drive when the weather was fine, it was a sight to behold, the darker shades definitely suited htose '60s Astons. Around the same time a neighbours relative had a Radford-esque Mk2 Mini in a similar shade to that sable brown, it had gold coloured alloys and very dark tinted glass all round - very tasty looking but probably old hat by the mid '70s.

Nidge

[WMU 211G]

Bugger, meant to post this as well... I wonder if there's a hi-res version of this one somewhere, taken by the same photographer Pete mentioned earlier :

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Moor glimpses of Ringo's Radford...

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With Maccas...

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[mk1coopers]

Is it just me or is this thread making other people really want a nice coach built style MK1, a friend of mine is just finishing off a car with Speedwell theme, that's going to be a cracking car.

[rich@minispares.com]

Is it just me or is this thread making other people really want a nice coach built style MK1.

admit it, your having dirty thoughts about the er-cooper s

[mk1coopers]

[JC T ONE]

Is it just me or is this thread making other people really want a nice coach built style MK1,

Seems like it, Nick has started an export buisness, on Raddies in kit form = viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12103

[JC T ONE]

Is it just me or is this thread making other people really want a nice coach built style MK1.

admit it, your having dirty thoughts about the er-cooper s

Ha ha - good candidate thou

[Nevsmini]

As we seem to have a Beatles/Radford thing going I have dug out a pic of a Radford(?) Woody that I had when I had the shop in Putney

It had a Mk2 grille stuck on it and some later bonnet badge which I swopped for something more oldie. I was going to hang on to it as I was using it as a daily driver but an American student customer kept on asking whether he could buy it and I finally let it go. He was going to ship it back to the States

I can remember little about it except:

It was allegedgly made for the Queens hairdresser or something similar

Wicker on the sides , I think

It was bloody uncomfy to drive as the seat bases were solid ply under the cushion and it looke like they may always have been so

It had always been black and wasn't super-dooper spec of everything but had a lot of the obvious features (like the seats) . Can't remember what the dash was like - don't think it was that special

Must have been late 80's

Memory fades ....but I am glad to have been kicked into the joys of Beatlemania on the web - I now know where I was on 29 October 1963 ! Could'nt hear the music for screaming!



Yes , it is a Turbo opposite Stuart

Tim they are Hooper seats fitted to the woodie the same as the seats in Sellers Hooper. Is it possible it was a Hooper?