'Minder' motors to be auctioned...

[Villain]

Just came across this link via Pistonheads, Arthur's Daimler and Terry's Mk2 Capri are up for grabs...

www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/minder-cars-for-sale/

Villan

[Gene Hunt]

At £100,000 - £130,000 for the two.... Good luck.

Gene.

[Dirty Epic]

Expensive but that Capri does look good!

[Arthur Pringle]

Minder is a show that, despite being well loved, really doesn't have the same cache cult motors wise as The Sweeney, Persuaders, Professionals, etc., especially when you consider that dodgy motors & the show went hand in hand.
Not sure if it was the same one but a yellow Arthur Daley Daimler was up for sale a year or so ago.

[Del Boy]

Yeah i thought the Daimler was "On Offer" not too long ago. Could it be there's more than one doing the rounds ?
It's quite possible.

[Gene Hunt]

The Saint knows the history of this car as he was considering buying it not so long ago. I'm sure he'll post details when he logs in.

Gene.

[Del Boy]

Interesting, hopefully Saint can shed some light on it.

Cheers Gene.

[Arthur Pringle]

Yes I remember The Saint taking an interest in it, it was on offer for an affordable price from memory.

Here is more info on this Minder Daimler-

"Between series 4 and series 6 Arthur drove a yellow Daimler Sovereign 4.2 Series III (with its distinctive fluted grille and bootlid plinth) which also featured in the #6.7 Minder On The Orient Express Christmas Special in 1985. The DYO 979V number plate is actually a prop plate. The car's real registration is VDU 342X". ( Arthur drove another different Daimler in series 8 & 9 ).

"Possibly the best remembered of Arthur's cars was his yellow Daimler Sovereign Series III 4.2. This was the third car of this style to be driven by Arthur in the series and is probably best remembered as it was used at the time series was most popular on television. The real registration of this car is VDU342X and DYO979V was simply a prop."

"George Cole explained the complete story on the Umbrella Series 1 DVD commentary for episode #1.9 'Monday Night Fever'-

Everytime we finished a series we were told that was it and we weren't going to do to anymore, and then they would come back later and say yes we are going to do some more. And at the end of this particular series, which I believe was 1985, I was sitting in the Minder Jaguar and talking to the location manager and I said I must get myself a new car, because I was driving a rather battered Capri at the time.

He said, 'Well why don't you put an offer in for this Jag?' So I said, 'Yes, I might do that.' So he got on to Jaguar and said would they give it a good service and make me an offer I couldn't refuse. So they said 'Yes' and that was that. A couple of days later the phone rings, it was TV Times, they said 'I understand you're going to buy the Minder Jaguar?' and I said 'Yes'. They said 'Well we want it, because we want to give it away as a prize in a competition'. So I said, 'Well I'm sorry, I want it'. So a few days later they ring up again, 'If we get Jaguar to get you a very hefty discount on a new Jaguar, will you let us have the Minder Jaguar?'. So I sobbed a bit and said 'Yes, alright'. So then I went down to present it someone who'd won in the raffle. Then about three months ago (2003), I get a letter from the man who won it originally to say it was being raffled again in aid of Salisbury Hospice and would I go down and pick the winning ticket. So I said 'Yes', went down and picked the winning ticket, that was that. When they contacted the person with the winning ticket, he said 'I don't want it, raffle it again' and so it's now being raffled on the internet."

"Mr John Maxfield owned the car between 1985 up until its appearance on ebay in 2003 and apparently it was either his sister or sister-in-law who won the original TV Times competition. Mr Maxfield promptly bought the car from her at that time. In 2002 he donated this car to Salisbury Hospice to raise funds for them. As mentioned above, the original winner gave the car back and it then appeared on ebay. The winner of the car on ebay at that time is fellow Minder fan Dez who until 2014 kept the car in the Nottingham area and collected the car from John Maxfield".

[The Saint]

Looks like we have the full story from Arthur Pringle

I think the estimated sale prices are very high, especially for the Capri, so it will be interesting to see how much they achieve at auction.

Both cars were on display at the London Classic Car Show last weekend, I took this photo.

The Saint

[Arthur Pringle]

Surprisingly Terry's Capri went for more than Bonehead & Foyle's!
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cars-tv-series-minder-fetch-7826386