45 years ago, on September 11th 1967, the shooting of the Beatles’ movie “Magical Mystery Tour” was started – a chance to have a glance on the cars of some members.
It is bright knowledge that John Lennon did own a Rolls Royce and that this was a car in a very unusual colour combination for such a distinctive automobile. Beside that John owned #6781GT, a late example of a 330 GT 2+2 of the first series. The car was livered in elegant Azzurro with Blu VM 3015 interior. The car shows ass. # 469 and is said to be the 46th UK RHD example. John purchased the car on April 20th 1965 from Maranello Concessionaires and it was registered on plates DUL 4C. The car was still wearing those plates when it was offered for auction by Bonhams at their Paris sale in February 2011. However, the car was withdrawn from auction by the seller. John Lennon was the owner of the car for seven months only. He put 3,000 kms on the odo before selling it to car dealer Bill Brydon Cars Ltd. of Greenock. One of the owners of the car was mogul Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed who previously owned Harrods of London, the Hotel Ritz in Paris and FC Fulham.

Band-mate George Harrison even owned two Ferraris at least. The “real” Ferrari was 365 GTC with chassis #12245 showing a dark Blue met. exterior with a Crema interior. The ass. # is 691 and stands quite obviously for the 91th of 150 examples being built. The car’s body # is C0770, delivered new via Maranello Concessionaires as well. It is said that George purchased the car using a pseudonym. The car was last heard of when being on offer by John Collins’ Talacrest in February of 2011.

The second George Harrison-car was 246 GTS Dino #06598. Interestingly, George was already the third owner of the car that is still registered on plates TGU 6M. You can easily follow this car by visiting our sister-register DinoRegister.com.

It is known about Paul McCartney that he obviously did own an Aston Martin DB 5 (#DB5/1653/R) as well as a DB6 and a Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 (#1141), but that is serial number knowledge beyond F-Register’s horizon.