MORRIS MINI COOPER
PETER SELLERS
If you were a celebrity in the sixties then a modified Mini was the cool car to own, and Peter Sellers' 1963 'Wicker Mini' started that trend, 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'.