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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:55 pm
by mk1
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:58 pm
by WMU 211G
No pictures sadly, but in 1967 Scott Walker bought a new Mk1 Mini 850 in maroon and had tinted windows fitted to it. The car was vandalised by a young female fan later that year when she didn't like something had said in an interview in the Melody Maker or the NME.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:33 pm
by surfblue63
Bigger version of the shot showing Jim McCarty sitting in his Mini whilst Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf stand about. No idea where Chris Dreja was that day. Picture must be from late 1966


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Looks like Beck had a Mini in the early 1990s

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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:10 pm
by mab01uk
Jeff Beck - Hot Rods and a Mini....
http://www.mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22597

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:27 pm
by WMU 211G
surfblue63 wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:33 pm Bigger version of the shot showing Jim McCarty sitting in his Mini whilst Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf stand about. No idea where Chris Dreja was that day. Picture must be from late 1966


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Looks like Beck had a Mini in the early 1990s

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The Yardies pic was taken in early 1968 Stu, by Linda McCartney, just round the corner from Jim McCarty's flat. Chris Dreja is the one standing behind the Mini, Beck had long left the band by the time the pic was taken ;)

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:53 am
by surfblue63
I just saw a big nose and thought Beck. I'd even looked at pictures of the others and still didn't click that it was not Beck. :oops:

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:10 pm
by wantafaster1
He's still recording actually, plays on a new Ozzy Osbourne track.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:02 am
by WMU 211G
I know not everyone on here does facebook, but on one of the Beatles groups I'm in there's some newly discovered footage of George Harrison driving his psychedelic Radford Cooper S on location filming for 'Magical Mystery Tour' on 24th September 1967...

https://www.facebook.com/alex.beatlemas ... 3826213230

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:48 pm
by surfblue63
WMU 211G wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:02 am I know not everyone on here does facebook, but on one of the Beatles groups I'm in there's some newly discovered footage of George Harrison driving his psychedelic Radford Cooper S on location filming for 'Magical Mystery Tour' on 24th September 1967...

https://www.facebook.com/alex.beatlemas ... 3826213230

Looks like it has been removed!

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 3:53 pm
by WMU 211G
Link still works for me Stu.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:07 pm
by surfblue63
Must be blocked if you do not log in. No chance of that then as I do not have an account.


PS I get this screen
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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:27 pm
by mab01uk
surfblue63 wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:07 pm Must be blocked if you do not log in. No chance of that then as I do not have an account.


PS I get this screen
Same screen as I get.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:33 am
by mk1
This link should work for everybody.

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

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 11:47 am
by surfblue63
Thanks Mark.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:16 pm
by surfblue63
Mika Salo
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Helen Shapiro preferred the luxury of a Humber Sceptre to the Mini

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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:35 pm
by 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.

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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

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Presenting Top Gear in the Seventies.

Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:25 pm
by surfblue63
Charlotte Rampling

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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:26 pm
by surfblue63
Jenny Clare (model)

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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:01 pm
by timell
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Re: Famous Mini owners

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:05 pm
by WMU 211G
timell wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:01 pm 41716AAD-C63B-4784-AC30-226EE40CFDB7.jpeg

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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...

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