BEATLES CARS

　英国のCLASSIC AND SPORTS CAR 誌の11月号で ビートルズ カー が紹介されている。ビートルズの四人が現役時代に自らステアリングを握っていた愛車である。メンバーは車を複数所有していた事は事実であるが、その中でも特別な一台である。

車を観ながらメンバーの顔と性格を想像するのも面白いかも知れない。

 

Baby, Drive my car!

24th Oct 2013

 

ビートルズ、再結成！

 

（彼ら4人の愛車が集合した、という事です）

 

　これらの車は英国のランカスター保険会社が主催したクラッシックカーショーで紹介された車である。それを今回クラッシックアンドスポーツ誌が11月号の誌面で取り上げた。

Four cars that once belonged to members of The Beatles will be reunited on the Classic and Sports Car stand at this year’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show. The Fab Four were originally brought together for an article that appears in the November issue of the magazine. They were photographed at Cliveden House, where some of the filming for ‘Help!’ took place.

John, Paul, George and Ringo each indulged their passion for cars as their fame and wealth grew. Their collections included Jaguar E-types, Mini Coopers and even a Hispano-Suiza limousine, but C&SC will display four fabulous GTs.

 

 

 

ジョン レノン

 

John Lennon’s 1968 Iso Fidia is one of two that he owned, and he bought it for £6150 at the ’67 Earls Court Motor Show. According to his first wife Cynthia, Lennon’s driving skills apparently left much to be desired, which must have made being a passenger interesting in this 5.3-litre Italian-American hybrid.

 

 

 

ポール マッカートニー

 

Paul McCartney’s 1966 DB6 (アストンマーティン）has been the subject of a comprehensive restoration by Aston Martin Works. The car’s reel-to-reel tape recorder was removed and placed in secure storage as part of the rebuild. It was on this device that McCartney began to piece together ‘Hey Jude’ while visiting John and Cynthia at St George’s Hill.

 

 

 

 

ジョージ ハリソン

 

（グループの中で、一番の車好き）

 

George Harrison was without doubt the biggest petrolhead of the four, and he purchased his gorgeous Giallo Fly Dino 246 soon after the group had split up. The ‘quiet Beatle’ kept the car for four years and was often seen driving around Henley in the V6-engined beauty.

 

 

 

リンゴ スター

 

Ringo Starr purchased his Facel Vega Facel IIat the height of Beatlemania in 1964. The UK distributor gave away a gold lighter with each car and, when this example was delivered to his Weybridge home, Ringo’s first question was apparently, “Got my lighter?” Despite having only recently passed his test, Starr used to indulge in high-speed runs up and down the M4.

 

 

ビートルズと言えば勿論音楽だが、彼らの使った車を観るのも楽しい。

 

 

同時にその時代の空気や臭いも感じられる。