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Morris Mini Cooper MkI (Peter Sellers) in Black (1:43 scale by Vanguards VA02532)
This diecast model Morris Mini Cooper MkI (Peter Sellers) is Black and features working wheels.
If you were a celebrity in the sixties then a modified Mini was the cool car to own, and that trend was started by Peter Sellers’ 1963 ‘Wicker Mini’, modelled here.
Sellers asked Rolls-Royce dealership HR Owen to customize his Mini and they commissioned Hooper (Motor Services) Ltd, the spares and servicing arm of the former coach-building firm, to modify the car. It cost £2600 (when a standard Cooper was £679) but featured up-rated leather seats, electric windows and the famous hand stencilled wicker-work effect on its sides. Sellers used the car in the Pink Panther film ‘A Shot in the Dark’.
1:43 scale (approx. 7cm / 2.8in long) - made by Vanguards.
Limited edition of 2200 pieces worldwide complete with numbered certificate.
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