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.

Many of the pictures and info on these pages are courtesy of Mike of the Radford/Mini de Ville Register , Roger (the hat) Wall, who made the 'psychedelic mini'-pictures at Goodwood and Barry Jarlett. Also thanks to Scott, Mike Weaver and Keith Renton for providing extra information. My sincere thanks to them for providing me with the info and pictures.

© Arno Kempers