1968 Mini Police Car
A genuine ex-Liverpool City Police Area car, OKD 698F has been restored
over an 8 year period by its owner, Noel Durdant-Hollamby, back to its original
specification of 1968.
With original features such as working light and sirens, correct side
badging, dazzling Police White paintwork and driven by the original and
legendary 1275 Cooper S powerplant, this car also features the Pye Westminster
Radio, complete with original telephone receiver, and when you combine those
features with correct Liverpool Police clothing and accessories, this car has
the ‘x’ factor that production need, and props buyers crave for
authenticity in their period productions. Car owner is happy to dress ‘in
period’, to add to the effect.
Since the completion of the restoration in 2008, the car has displayed at
some of the most important classic car shows in the UK, and in front of an
estimated 340,000 people in 2009 alone! Flagship events like the Goodwood
Revival, attracting 40,000 people per day over a 3 day event, the Biggin Hill
International Air Fair (40,000 per day over 2 days), and Wings & Wheels at
Dunsfold Aerodrome, the home of BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ show (15,000 per day over two
days), are three examples of how many people have been made aware of this car.
Recommended by Dave Davies, the Police Registrar of the Mini Cooper Register,
as ‘…the best example of a restored Police Mini that I am aware of’’, Sir
Stirling Moss was recently added to the ‘arrest sheet’, as 698 made an
appearance with 5 other classics to launch the Chelsea Auto Legends Motor Show
in September 2011. Magazines including Classic & Sportscar, Classics
Monthly, MiniWorld Magazine, and Police Car UK, the leading classic Police
vehicle club in the UK, have all run articles on the car.
The BBC ran an item to celebrate 50 years of the Mini, an independent
production company (Betty TV) chose 698 to accompany celebrity chef James Martin
in a pilot film with his ex-Works Rally Mini, 8 EMO, and in 2009 ITV included
698 in its Goodwood Revival DVD in which the car ‘chased’ Rowan Atkinson, in his
last ever performance as Mr Bean, atop his mini with a sofa on the roof!
Motivated car owner - ready for your production.
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