Peter Sellers "Basket Weave " Cooper S

[neutral 3]

A friend owned this S in either the late 60s early 70s . He bought it from a well known Actor , who in turn had bought it from P.Sellers.

Does anyone have any info or a photo of it ? Apparently it was sold at Auction a few years ago ?

[Rollcage]

Which one? There are about 4 "Sellers minis" in all, a mixture of LHD, RHD, Radford and W&P ones!

[Cooperman]

Quite right.Peter Sellers had 'Automania' which is when you can't stop buying nwe cars and it becomes an obsession.

[neutral 3]

Not sure, it was def rhd as i remember sitting in it at "Waltham Abbey Gun Club" , Which i have just discovered closed ( for a housing estate ) in 1970.

Will speak to my friend to see if he has the photo of it.

[fiveus]

Made by wood and picket i belive.Or was it radford?

[miniboy1971]

Peter Sellers "Radford" for sale here......currently under offer.

http://www.jdclassics.co.uk/car/328

Lots of lovely motors in their showroom !!

[JC T ONE]

Hi all,

the car that was featured in the Magazines, is the LHD Radford from the movie

" A SHOT IN THE DARK" some say that 2 were built?????

but there have been other movies, with a car suddenly being LHD, when it was a RHD in the previus scene, so its hard to say ??

really need to track down someone that worked on the set? or Elke Sommer ?

Peter Sellers was the person who started it all, with 6189 PK .
A Hooper Coachbuild Cooper, seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyqqZno8Ktg

His wife Britt Ekland also had atleast one Radford, maybe 2 ??
there is the one from the birthday cake scene, but the one she got stolen some years later, had the square CIBIE headlights´, so who knows ??

Peter Sellers later turned to Wood & Pickett for his Coachbuild "addiction" needs.


Jens Christian