Famous 1960's Mini Rally Driver Paddy Hopkirk pictured below with his MINI Countryman and Y333 EJB numberplate.



More:
http://blog.minisport.com/2011/04/mi...paddy-hopkirk/

 

Right next to Mini Sport! . Very cool.

 

There was a Mini/MINI session in the SF Bay Area this week where I finally had the chance to meet and talk with Paddy Hopkirk. A thoroughly enjoyable encounter, and I got all my accumulated questions answered. A recent discovery was he tried RFTs on a course for time then let out all the air and repeated the course - 2 seconds slower - interesting.

More photos at: http://hammanet.smugmug.com/Cars/Pad...0633&k=cFCxJXw

 

Brilliant! I cannot seem to make out what kind of emblem/crest that is on the front grill. What is that?

 

I think the top one is the British Racing Drivers Club

And the bottom one is representing the Rally Monte Carlo

 

wow, Cooper royalty here !