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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 5, 2004 21:00:33 GMT -5
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. Beatles Minis... www.minispace.co.uk/beatles/paul/paul.htmThe 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)...  www.astonmartins.com/np6c/db6.htmOne more thing, the logo of the Mini Cooper and Aston Martin are wings...   _____________________________________________ From the Beatles book #43, "Paul has a green mini cooper plus a blue Alston Martin.". ![]() [/img] |
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Post by FlamingPie on Jul 5, 2004 21:47:07 GMT -5
Wow.
And is it just me, or is there something a bit creepy about the pic with Paul in that car?
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 8, 2004 0:27:09 GMT -5
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. John & Yoko...  From the Lennon family site... www.lennon.net/reflections/s_parkes3.shtmlWell 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. An Austin Maxi...  |
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Post by DarkHorse on Jul 8, 2004 2:03:17 GMT -5
The little toy white car looks like an Aston Martin.
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 8, 2004 17:43:50 GMT -5
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. Does it look familiar?www.toywebb.net/prod2328.htmOn another note, Faul sang "Live and Let Die" for the James Bond film (by the same title). |
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Post by DarkHorse on Jul 8, 2004 20:02:58 GMT -5
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.
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 15, 2004 1:23:17 GMT -5
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Post by DarkHorse on Jul 15, 2004 11:01:35 GMT -5
What's the relevance of that license plate number?
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 15, 2004 11:54:52 GMT -5
It makes for a good check, since it can be verified the cars in two photos are the same.  |
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Post by DarkHorse on Jul 15, 2004 11:59:41 GMT -5
...obviously not the same car JP crashed.  |
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Post by FlamingPie on Jul 15, 2004 12:09:21 GMT -5
What's with the 4th picture down?  |
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Post by Girl on Oct 17, 2004 7:51:59 GMT -5
I dunno, GGC
could stand for "Goo Googa Joob". ;D
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Post by Harb on Oct 19, 2004 4:42:33 GMT -5
What's with the 4th picture down? That's Linda in makeup for 'Give My Regards to Broadstreet'. |
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Post by minispace on Oct 21, 2004 15:14:32 GMT -5
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. www.minispace.co.uk |
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Post by JoJo on Oct 21, 2004 15:19:30 GMT -5
Sorry about that, we were a little remiss on this one, we usually catch stuff like that, hotlinking other's pics is a no-no here. We apologise, and if you don't mind, I'll take it down and host it on my server. If you have a problem with that, then away it goes, no problem!  |
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Post by JoJo on Oct 21, 2004 15:35:28 GMT -5
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.
THANKS!
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Post by JoJo on Oct 21, 2004 21:23:11 GMT -5
I suspect he only came on as a member to express his displeasure about the hotlinking. (I could be wrong) |
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on May 7, 2012 14:18:21 GMT -5
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Mar 21, 2014 17:39:59 GMT -5
Starting at :50 are intriguing images of an accident involving a light colored Aston Martin (similar to the dark blue one pictured above). There is a bobby standing by the car. The person who uploaded the video thinks it's Paul's car (I don't know enough yet to make that determination, but it I mean it could be... George Harrison owned a platinum-silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 ( err. maybe it was white: img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4136/74257169.951/0_ade21_7c3ba06f_XXL ) similar to the one Sean Connery drove in James Bond films. After Harrison purchased his Aston Martin DB5, McCartney followed his lead and bought a Goodwood Green 1966 Aston Martin DB6 in March of that year. The Aston Martin in the video is not Tara Brown's Lotus Elan, but it should be noted how similar are the scenes.  George Harrison's Aston Martin can be seen in this video at 2:38 Background info on Beatles cars: Guitaraficianado/BeatlesCarsOn a side note, Mick Jagger had a minor collision with the Countess of Carlisle in his brand new Aston Martin DB6 in September 1966. It seems racing through the streets of London was nothing out of the ordinary... www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2013/03/hey-you-get-out-of-that-car.htmlIt’s September 1966 and Mick is piloting his snazzy new Aston Martin DB6 through the mean streets of West London with his then girlfriend Christine Shrimpton (sister of Jean) accompanying him in the passenger seat.
In an incident that can only ever happen within certain London postcodes Jagger has a vehicular encounter with none other than the Countess of Carlisle. No-one was hurt and the damage was minimal.
Whether Mick got any satisfaction from his car insurance or had his 19th nervous breakdown when he lost his no claims bonus has not been recorded in the annals of history but it’s rumoured the bodyshop wanted to paint it black after the damage was repaired. Just goes to show you can’t always get what you want. (Alright enough already). |
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