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Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:27 pm
by surfblue63
There's a Wood and Pickett shell on Ebay,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Wood-And ... 2628541146
Wood and Pickett.jpg
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:11 pm
by JC T ONE
Quote =
"Mick Davey Er, its not a W&P shell. The boots spare wheel well is actually part of a white Skoda Estelle bonnet (note its too shallow), the vinyl roof was fitted by Pounds of Baldock in Hertfordshire, sold for £120 a few years ago because it was a patchwork quilt shell. Good luck to the next owner, they'll need it!
PS it used to be my wife's.
It was a Standard Clubman, converted to look like a W&P about 20 years ago by a company in St.Albans, the missus knows who, (she'll have a look for it on her computer when she's stopped laughing).
" end of quote.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:34 pm
by Reborn Cooper S Man
JC T ONE wrote:
Quote =
"Mick Davey Er, its not a W&P shell. The boots spare wheel well is actually part of a white Skoda Estelle bonnet (note its too shallow), the vinyl roof was fitted by Pounds of Baldock in Hertfordshire, sold for £120 a few years ago because it was a patchwork quilt shell. Good luck to the next owner, they'll need it!
PS it used to be my wife's.
It was a Standard Clubman, converted to look like a W&P about 20 years ago by a company in St.Albans, the missus knows who, (she'll have a look for it on her computer when she's stopped laughing).
" end of quote.
Went to see another mini the guy had for sale and sore the above shell, it really is horrible. Story goes that he bought it unseen and got it transported back then realised just how bad it was !
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:38 pm
by rich@minispares.com
Reborn Cooper S Man wrote: Story goes that he bought it unseen and got it transported back then realised just how bad it was !
to be fair, we have all done it.....
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:02 pm
by JC T ONE
Great news,
the interior from the nice WP Innocenti Landau featured as centerspread in Peter Philby,s book Amazing Mini has turned up.
It was stolen many years ago, and the car was unfortunally left outside for a long period.
The owner of the car, has now established contact with the guy who has the interior.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:57 pm
by WMU 211G
UHR850 wrote:
Came accros this one.
Top monstrosity is my pic, taken in '99 at Bank Garage Minis when I went over for a sly shuftie, the vendor who shall remain nameless made out it 'belonged to John & Yoko' but he had no log book etc, etc. Very interesting car, the interior was very swish for the period, the XJ6 rear lights looked odd mind. Badged as a Mk2 S but had a 1071 in it at the time, so he said anyway.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:35 pm
by JC T ONE
JC T ONE wrote:Great news,
the interior from the nice WP Innocenti Landau featured as centerspread in Peter Philby,s book Amazing Mini has turned up.
It was stolen many years ago, and the car was unfortunally left outside for a long period.
The owner of the car, has now established contact with the guy who has the interior.
More great news, a deal have been made, and the owner of the WP Landau now has most of the original interior & dash board reunited with the car.
Door cards are still missing - guess the doors were sold off seperatly ?
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:50 pm
by WMU 211G
A freeze frame from an episode of 'The Persuaders' shot in the Autumn of '70, nice 'coachbuilt' look Mk2 with the rear roof guttering deseamed...
Persuaders #18 crop.jpg
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:07 pm
by foxy52
WMU 211G wrote:A freeze frame from an episode of 'The Persuaders' shot in the Autumn of '70, nice 'coachbuilt' look Mk2 with the rear roof guttering deseamed...
Persuaders #18 crop.jpg
...nice one.. well spotted.. makes me think of the Tilling windowed MK2 S in The Villain... ps why would anyone want an oval windowed,vynil roofed mini..reminiscent of a Hearse..hideous !!!!... soooo ugly and un mini like !!!! foxy52
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:29 pm
by rpb203
The villain Cooper S had wickerwork side panels, (didn't it Len?)
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:41 pm
by WMU 211G
rpb203 wrote:The villain Cooper S had wickerwork side panels, (didn't it Len?)
Yes...
Villain #003.jpg
Villain #004.jpg
Villain #006.jpg
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:23 pm
by rpb203
Unusual finishing touch around the rear panel?
Would be good to see a wicker work mini on the mini scene, anyone got one?
The wicker must be a bugger to do?!
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:57 pm
by rpb203
Did the Villain get caught in the end and end up doing Porridge?
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:16 pm
by WMU 211G
rpb203 wrote:Did the Villain get caught in the end and end up doing Porridge?
Yes!
Some wickerwork / paint on this early Mk3... it's from some news footage about 'Carlos the Jackal' in the '70s...
i309342 CARLOS 2010.jpg
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:02 pm
by Polarsilver
I seen London Black Cabs with Wicker on the outside .. ok some years ago.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:07 pm
by surfblue63
rpb203 wrote:The wicker must be a bugger to do?!
Years ago I found a French web site which showed how it was done. It must have taken weeks to do just one car. These days you could probably get one of those car wrapping firms to print some/cut some on their laser guided equipment.
Renault sold a model of R4 called the Parisienne in the 1960s that had wicker panels.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:10 pm
by Pete
You used to be able to buy fake sham-caning (wicker!) on a roll from the back pages of the old car mags, can't imagine what that looked like or what a nightmare it could have been to apply!
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:49 pm
by Tupers
surfblue63 wrote:rpb203 wrote:The wicker must be a bugger to do?!
These days you could probably get one of those car wrapping firms to print some/cut some on their laser guided equipment.
They did just that on the 90s Radford evocations. There was one down my way a few years ago and it didn't look too bad from a distance but was certainly not as nice as the hand painted versions.
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:59 am
by JC T ONE
Re: Wood & Picket Info
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:18 am
by surfblue63
JC T ONE wrote:From Maximum Mini.
