Secret Shitters

[BorniteIdentity]

500k miles over 20 years, is 25k per annum.

 

John Peel lived in Great Finborough in Suffolk, so the commute to Broadcasting House from Peel Acres would be a 185 mile round trip.

Three times a week for 48 weeks a year gives you just over 26k miles.

 

He probably didn't drive in three times a week, but throw in some festival trips and continental trip once a year and 25k looks easily do-able.

 

Yes, he lived just down the road from me.  I never forgave my friend (who I used to ride shotgun with a lot) for going to John's to fix his TV and not taking me along for the ride.

 

In the later years he was at Peel Acres on R1 once or twice a week depending on sessions.  I mentioned KM because it was a left hand drive car - unlikely to be counting in miles.  Although perhaps it had a speedo change?  It's likely John bought it back from Germany where he had many connections, having lived there for a time.

 

Sadly, as it was scrapped in 2004 - and the online system didn't kick in until the year after - we'll never know.

[mercrocker]

Gene Vincent bought and ran around in an A40 Farina whilst living in Kent.   

[DaveDorson]

Are they keeping quiet on that for a reason or are they just taking their sweet time showing it?

 

 

Bit of an understatement there, it's the quickest road legal electric car in Europe!

 

https://practicalmotoring.com.au/car-news/1975-enfield-8000-electric-becomes-europes-quickest-street-legal-electric-car/

 

Oh I know , he's a friend of mine.  I've seen him using it for the supermarket run before now

[BorniteIdentity]

John Peel put half a million miles on a Mercedes 190.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2731309/Portrait-of-a-driver-John-Peel.html

 

After a bit of digging, it was John Peel's Mercedes 190 wore B623 AMH.  More impressively it was Petrol!

 

[BorniteIdentity]

After a bit of digging, it was John Peel's Mercedes 190 wore B623 AMH.  More impressively it was Petrol!

 

PeelMerc.JPG

PeelMerc2.JPG

PeelMerc3.JPG

 

And for completeness, a better bit of vid here.

 

That's enough anoraking for one day!

 

https://youtu.be/e9BLTgTP3dI?t=7m32s

[martc]

Austrian actor Harald Krassnitzer donated his car to a charity auction:

 

 

He since bought another one.

 

(picture of Renault 16)

 

You are Harald Krassnitzer AICMFP.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Robert Plant lives nearby and is quite partial to old american stuff.

[stormee]

German comedian Dirk Bach and the car he owns since 1998:

 

 

 

He says he's got a corkboard at home where he pins all his speeding ticket photos.

This is the only car he ever bought.

Dirk Bach is now dead since 2012, wonder where his vehicle went.

[The_Equalizer]

James Hunt had a Austin A30 Van.

 

I did once did a week's work for an auction house. Hunt's A35 was in the auction. It was a nice looking thing, but only in fair condition from memory. Even with the Hunt connection it didn't make big money. This is going back a good number of years. I also remember there was a sage green Aston DB4 which I coveted, thinking that one day it might be on the cards. Its estimate was £14-16K. Oh the days!

 

Update:

 

Hunt's A35 didn't sell and the Aston made £18687 (about £33k in real terms):

 

http://www.motorbase.com/auction/by-id/1032666987/

[Mr Laurence]

Jarvis Cocker had a Hillman Imp up until 1998, according to this

 

Apparently Cocker figured that the decrepit car was too much of a death trap to give it away whole.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1433396/jarvis-cocker-pulps-car-for-giveaway/

 

(I think I've seen a photo of him with it at some point too)

[Junkman]

Dirk Bach is now dead since 2012, wonder where his vehicle went.

 

Yeah, I want it.

[chaseracer]

How did Cocker's Imp make a "three-ton metal cube"?  Did he leave his ego in the glovebox?

[yellowperil]

Gene Vincent bought and ran around in an A40 Farina whilst living in Kent.

 

 

Sweet.

[yellowperil]

My Renault Extra which I failed to even give away on here was reportedly bought new by Ronnie Wood.

This is what I was told by the previous owner after I bought it.

[chaseracer]

ronald

 

[Eddie Honda]

Jarvis Cocker had a Hillman Imp up until 1998, according to this

 

(I think I've seen a photo of him with it at some point too)

[cros]

Nile Rodgers still drives his yellow p38 Range Rover.

We never got a yellow p38 over here, his was a special edition for the US market (unlike that badly painted mess in Layer Cake).

A lesson to anyone tempted to shovel their way through $76000 worth of coke of an evening.

[5speedracer]

Sweet.

Bugger! Too slow.

[Aston Martin]

How hes allowed to be in a fiberglass car is beyond me.

 

[UltraWomble]

ronald

 

 

Talking of which - Ronnie Pickering has a Picasso

 

[cros]

Jeff Beck's taste in motors may be iffy but at least he has the decency to get under them in the pit at his Surrey mansion.

Evidence of his shiter roots emerged after he nearly ended his career by crushing his digits when dropping the boards back in.

[cros]

Geoffrey Hughes lived in a village near me in the 1980s. He had a crispy white Niva.

[Jerzy Woking]

Junkie musician Pete Doherty had a fleet of shagged out Jags at one point. Also (allegedly) caught smuggling drugs across the Italian border in an XJ8.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I want to post "For Real" when I read about Richey Edwards and his Cavalier but trying to sound clever and part of the 90's scene never works for me somehow.

I suppose it takes a special type of musician to drive a repmobile only just over a year old, Somehow I can't imagine Jimi Hendrix owning a MK2 Cortina 1.3deluxe with a flat battery.

 

Edit, no disrespect intended to any person's living or not.

It was a hire car

[DaveDorson]

It was a hire car

 

Things people do to get out of paying the excess after scratching a hire car eh?

[martc]

Who?

 

 

Boom! I'm here all week, tell your friends.

[doug]

Alex Kapranos has a very rusty W123 estate. That man has class.

[BorniteIdentity]

Junkie musician Pete Doherty had a fleet of shagged out Jags at one point. Also (allegedly) caught smuggling drugs across the Italian border in an XJ8.

This is very true. He’d park them wherever, and should one get towed - he’d go buy another for £750 or whatever. I read it in something like Q magazine. (Must be true)

[chaseracer]

Junkie musician Pete Doherty had a fleet of shagged out Jags at one point. Also (allegedly) caught smuggling drugs across the Italian border in an XJ8.

 

What a diabolical Libertine...

[warren t claim]

Apparently The Queen owns a one off Vauxhall Viceroy estate? 

 

The Civil List would be less of a burden on the taxpayer if Prince Andrew Ebayed off his MK2 RS2000.