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Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Thread Started on Jul 5, 2004, 9:00pm »
On the Sgt. Pepper album, there is a car going up in flames by Lovely Rita and a Shirley Temple doll is also holding a car with a bloody drivers glove. Some sources have identified the toy car as an Aston Martion (it's too hard for me to tell, but it would make sense if that was the car Paul was driving.)
Some sources credit Paul McCartney, in March 1966, with buying an Aston Martin DB6. Was the car Paul drove on that fatefull day an Aston Martin DB6 or his green Mini Cooper with black leather interior? The liscense plate is GGJ 382c.
The Minis site makes mention of a car with the liscense plate LLO 804D, might they mean this blue Aston Martin DB6 seen here, said to once be owned by "Paul McCartney" liscense plate LLO 840D? (The zero and four are flip-flopped, possibly like the replica numberplate on Ringo's restored mini)...
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Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #2 on Jul 8, 2004, 12:27am »
Something else to think about... In the summer of 1969, John and Yoko took a trip to the Highlands of Scotland where they got into an appearant auto accident. John was driving an Austin Maxi which is a larger version of the Mini.
Well of course he was so fond of the Highlands he was determined that he would show Yoko where he spent his childhood holidays. He drove himself up in a bog standard Maxi car, meaning to be normal tourists. But as you know Yoko had long hair down to her knees and he had this long hair and the beard, and I said "John you can't go thinking you're not going to be recognised. You're mad doing 'bed and breakfast' like an ordinary couple. What are you doing in an old Maxi like that? You've got Rolls Royces, chauffeurs, Ferraris and Porches and you come up in an old rubbishy car like that?" "Oh I just want to be ordinary," he said. So I said "Remember John, when you go up into the highlands the single-track roads start above Inverness. Be very careful and remember the rule of the single-track road." He wasn't a good driver. He was very short-sighted and didn't do much driving anyway and so he was always chauffeured about everywhere. So I was surprised to see him driving there, but he insisted that he drive up. I couldn't go up with him. I had to go down to Scarborough on business but I said "I'll join you later."
So when I was in Scarborough I was having to go to this business premises and I heard two people say, "I hear John Lennon's been in a car crash and he's been taken to hospital," and I thought "Oh my God what's he done now?" So I couldn't wait to get back home to my own house to find out what the devil's happened.
They were all taken to hospital - John, Yoko, Kyoko and Julian. He'd been driving from our croft right round Loch Erobil which is a beautiful run right round to Tongue, and the weather had got a bit dull and dim. He forgot about the rule of the road - at lay-bys you always go into the left hand side one and the oncoming traffic go into their left hand side one. But the foreigners don't understand this and he met a foreign tourist coming along and they didn't go into their by-pass and came straight on towards him. He hadn't gone into his by-pass and they were meeting head on! I asked him "What happened?" He said "Oh I panicked. I let go of the steering wheel and the car just went in the ditch." And of course he was smashed up and had to have stitches in the forehead, chin, cheeks and what have you and taken to the hospital. They were stitched up and they had a lovely time in the hospital. John sent for his LP, it might have been 'Help' or 'Walls and Bridges',and gave the LP to all the nurses for looking after him so well. And he was helicoptered off down to London, but my mother took Julian back to the croft because Cynthia was worried about Julian and she came up and took him home herself. So that was that escapade.
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Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #4 on Jul 8, 2004, 5:43pm »
Okay, let's try this as far as the toy car goes. The James Bond movie Thunderball came out in 1965. Knowing how the boys loved that type of genre, the film must have inspired Paul to also buy OO7's car--the Aston Martin.
Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #5 on Jul 8, 2004, 8:02pm »
That's not a longshot that JP saw Thunderball and liked the car. Good detective work. The toy car looks very much like the white Aston Martin in Thunderball, which was released in 1965.
Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #13 on Oct 20, 2004, 9:58pm »
"Perhaps the most famous of all James Bond's cars, the 1963 Aston Martin DB5 (chassis number DP/216/1) appeared in both Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965) staring Sean Connery. For gadgetry, the car was fitted with two forward firing machine guns, rear-firing water jets, an ejectable passenger seat and bulletproof glass. To make border crossing easier, the car had three revolving numberplates: BMT216A (UK), LU 6789 (Swiss) and 4711-EA-62 (French). <br>"Before being specially-equipped, the Silver Birch roadster was painted Dubonnet Red and road-tested by Autocar magazine in 1963. The DB5 with 282bhp twin-cam four-liter straight-six engine and four-speed manual transmission reached 0-60mph in 8.1 seconds, which was quite respectable for its day. After seeing the gadget-laden DB5 in 1964, Beatle Paul McCartney ordered one - minus the guns, of course. " <br>I found this also:
"If you play I'm so Tired backwards, yes, you will hear "Paul is dead, man, miss him, miss him," but you'll also hear something that sounds very much like John saying, "I wish I would not have killed you, now you should know what" "I'm gonna see my mother in a nice porsche," "He was such a silly git," "Another silly man in a nice porsche," and "Paul is now in a nice Porsche."
worth checking out? could anyone post it w/ backwards audio?
I don't think the "restored " mini is the original mini. check out the fenders over the wheel well.....also, minor point, but on Paul's mini, the wiper baldes don't rest in the same position as Faul's mini......
Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #15 on Oct 21, 2004, 3:14pm »
I have no problem people doubting authenticity but to hit me with "the fenders" and "the wiper blades" is totally ludicrous.
The Mini has had major restorations at least twice, any Mini owner can tell you that the wiper blades change position on any given occasion whether you like it or not and the 'fenders' (??) haven't changed, it simply has wider 10" wheels than in the 60's ...
It's the chassis and the logbook that count. All present in this case. Due to the Mini being a rustbucket, chances are high that on any given 60's Mini, you will only find about 10% of the original panelwork present.
And I have no problem people copying pictures from my site but can you please stop deeplinking, Jai-guru-something .... use your own bandwidth.
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Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #17 on Oct 21, 2004, 3:35pm »
Oh and by the way... AHEM...
Please everyone, do NOT, I repeat DO NOT hotlink pics here, people (and rightly so) do not take kindly to their bandwidth being siphoned away without their permission. A link to their main page is OK, after all, that's what they want people looking at, else they wouldn't have put it up in the first place.
"It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously."
Re: Baby, You Can Drive My Car « Reply #18 on Oct 21, 2004, 7:21pm »
Minispace, mea culpa for not knowing much about car terms..... the wiper blade position was just an observation from limited information about the vehicle.
But perhaps you could explain the body work around the wheel wells (hope that's at least reasonably correct) .......how the restored version of the mini photo of yours taken in the 1990's shows a definite "change"? ...and then reverts to the original style ?
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