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Can
there be something more perfect ? My favourite band and my favourite
car.
Not
only did the Beatles produce excellent music, at least according
to me, they also had a great taste for cars; The Mini.
The Beatles have all owned a Radford Mini, i.e. a Mini custom-build
by Harold Radford Coachbuilders Ltd. For years I'd wondered what
ever happened to these Mini's. Writing to Beatles-newgroups, fanclubs,
MPL, no matter what, I couldn't get any more info. That was until
I came across the Radford/Mini
de Ville website.
There
was featured the Mini I was looking for, the psychedelic painted
Mini of what I thought was John Lennon's (turned out it was George
Harrison's). This Mini featured in the "Magical Mystery Tour"-film.
Furthermore, Mike, of the Radford/Mini de Ville Register, had
no problem providing me with more info on the other Beatles Minis.
Brydor
Cars was the company that bought most Beatles Minis. Brian Epstein
actually had a number of Minis himself bought via this company.
It was 'Brian Esptein Automobiles Ltd' and traded as "Brydor Cars"
in Hounslow. It was made up from Brian and Doran. Terry Doran
a car salesman was a long time friend of Epstein from Liverpool
and Brydor Cars was set up for Terry with Brian as a silent partner,
when Brian died and Apple was set up Terry was appointed head
of Apple Music. In the 80's Terry sold some of his things at auction
and one was the log with all the cars ever bougth by Brydor Cars
and who owned them but it did not sell.
Almost
all the pictures and info on these pages are courtesy of Mike
of the Radford/Mini
de Ville Register and Roger (the hat) Wall, who made the
'psychedelic mini'-pictures at Goodwood. My sincere thanks to
them for providing me with the info and pictures.
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