Notable giveaways are the way the bonnet sits on the front panel, a flashing indicator stalk and if you look very closely the steering wheel centre horn push is not the simple Morris 'M' but the Austin cars Shield/logo. This is what anyone who mentions the 'Orange Mini' sticks by.however while this car may indeed have a number plate from a MK2 Mini on it, the car itself is a MK1, not only this but in fact, a MK1 Austin mini, with a MK2 grille and rear lights most likely self tapped into place for filming to make it look like a newer vehicle.
#Mr bean mini cooper registration
Further digging on a well known website for which you merely need insert a vehicle registration to find out all details about that particular car will reveal that this mini "is" a Beige 1969 Morris Mini. Bean (the pilot) this Mini is an odd one an orange (BLVC478) car with black stripes running along the lower edges of each side between the wheel arches and a Sandglow passenger side wing.Īny mini enthusiast can look at this car and say it's MK2 due to later rear lights and external hinges on the doors. Bean's Miniįirstly we will start with the (sadly) lesser loved mini Īppearing in the very first episode of Mr.
#Mr bean mini cooper series
Reading this you may be thinking "well, Matt, this is all very well and good, but why would you know anymore than me?" My answer to that is simple - I'm lucky enough to own one of the only surviving original Mr Bean Minis from the TV series and through restoring it, talking to stuntmen who worked on the show with the cars, TigerAspect (the production company for the show), Rowan Atkinson himself and a plethora of other people who have looked after, worked on, used and driven the minis used in the show I have an almost pathetic and uselessly large knowledge on them and as we all know the best thing to do with useless knowledge is to share it. So, what I thought I would do is create a sort of unofficial encyclopedia (including pictures, of course) on the cars used, their fates and whereabouts, replicas that some believe are the real deal and anything else relating.
Bean's Mini or asking general questions about the mini's used too, also having read through the vast majority of them on here and on the internet in general I became aware of quite a few rumours which seem to have popped up, some with zero truth behind them, some with a sort of 'Chinese whispers' truth behind them and some which are entirely true but with no evidence to back them up. There are plenty of Topics on TMF talking about Mr. So, a brief outline to this topic before I start:
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