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I have been digging around about this car for years, finally the mystery is solved.

"Hi Mark-f further to your enquiry about the Radrord mini....in 1981 I was looking to buy a mini cooper, there was one for sale in exchange and mart. The car was in Welling, I rang the person selling it,he told me he had recently bought a farm and this car was in a barn,it started well,but was no use to him. So i went down immediately,he showed me the car and i fell in love with it. It was a chocolate bronze colour,but inside the door sills you couls see it use to be blue. He gave me a bunch of paperwork that went with it.. it was bought by Donald Campbell for his wife. He had it modified to include a 'record player' electric windows full leather interior. It flew when you put your foot down. Being a young naive boy. I didnt realise its importance and unfortunately had it stolen around 4 years after i bought it. I still regret and miss it to this day. Had someone offered to swap it for a ferrari then , i would have turned them down. The last numbers on reg plate were 604B but cant for the life of me remember the first."

Interesting, so it's gone to the coachbuilders in the sky?

Very sad . Thanks for posting Mark. Do you know was it a Cooper or an S?

was it painted blue as per his XK150 and E-Type?

I believe it was light metallic blue.

mk1 wrote: The last numbers on reg plate were 604B

Duff memory, or a different car from the pic?

Al

Nevsmini wrote:Very sad Do you know was it a Cooper or an S?

It was an early 1275 S.

It had a fridge in it when I saw it. I'll see if I can find the picture.

long gone, together with Mr Woppit

Simon776 wrote:

Nevsmini wrote:Very sad Do you know was it a Cooper or an S?

It was an early 1275 S.

It had a fridge in it when I saw it. I'll see if I can find the picture.

Photo would be mega Simon

Pandora wrote:

mk1 wrote: The last numbers on reg plate were 604B

Duff memory, or a different car from the pic?

Al

I questioned this on the bluebird project site?

And I am still confused, I asked if the '604b' was correct or 'BLT 648b' was right? Is it the one in the photograph or are we talking about a different mini?

I reckon it is safe to assume it's a mis-remembering, I doubt that there are 2 Campbell radfords with such close reggo numbers.

I assumed it was you Stu

Yes that is Donalds Radford in the photo above. One of our members has a 1071 Radford with a reg very close to this one (see photo). The bluebird is only a mockup.

Nevsmini wrote:The bluebird is only a mockup.

really!

rich@minispares.com wrote:

Nevsmini wrote:The bluebird is only a mockup.

really!

It is rough isn't it!

It's a very quick & dirty mockup of what would ahve been CN8 A rocket car that it was proposed to have a go at the speed of sound with

As we all know DC came unstuck on Coniston in Jan 67 & the CN8 project never got off the drawing board.

Nevsmini wrote:

Simon776 wrote:

Nevsmini wrote:Very sad Do you know was it a Cooper or an S?

It was an early 1275 S.

It had a fridge in it when I saw it. I'll see if I can find the picture.

Photo would be mega Simon

I have finally found the pictures showing the unique fridge install - you Radford fans had better prepare to weep

There you go The spoiler/chin must have been a later addition

You can see the various colours it was painted under the vinyl roof - it had the rear roof seam removed at some point Rear bumper seam also removed Some parts of the car do survive including the engine block that was in it shortly before these pictures were taken

Can't see any holes for marchel parking lights ? post 66 door handles with sliding glass no holes for chrome trim, non s master cylinder..looks like it's been through a few changes

[quote="App K"] .looks like it's been through a few changes [/quote

Especially the fulll size fridge! When Simon said a fridge I was picturing a little wine chiller as part of the Radford interior!

I'm sure the car was actually recycled to make a fekin fridge (sadly!!), all we have to do is find the fecker and rebuild it into a genuine ex Donald Campbell Radford!