Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

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Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

 

 

"Hang on a minute lads"

           
  Brothers put film classics back on road again    
Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

After the 30th Anniversary at Silverstone in 1989 Popular Classics featured us in their magazine in 1990.

The minis complete with the letter 'G' prefix to match the film cars as the film plates were fictitious so illegal for road use.

DVLA details

From left to right. Antony, David, Daryl and Gareth Davies.

 

Over twenty years on and still going strong...

Worlds first and only sets in existence all built from the original MK1 body shells (not Mk2 modified to look like Mk1 like others) with the first set completed over 20 years ago in 1989.

The brothers passion for the film meant only one thing! They had to recreate the Italian Job Minis to celebrate the Films 20th Anniversary and the 30th Anniversary of the Mini at Silverstone in 1989.

 

 
     
Paramont Pictures (The Italian Job)

From right to left. Gareth, Daryl, Antony and David Davies.

Sky Movies premier the Caine season with the release of Zulu and The Italian Job in HD at the Soho Hotel London March 2008.

The Film Cars and Drivers link below.

Dave & Gareth having built their first set in 1989 and again in 2003 now have the most orignal set in the world all built from standard Mk1 shells.

On its first release in 1969 Daryl aged 14, Antony aged 10 and Gareth aged 12 saw the film on the Big Screen at the Odeon Cinema Coventry where Daryl and Gareth were born. We were instantly captivated by the 20 minute car chase featuring the mini coopers as they roared around Turin (and through Coventry sewers) to avoid capture with the old "over and under routine"?.

As children the three older brothers on a Saturday would play in the river and fields where the sewer scene was filmed as their father played Cricket at the GEC sports ground at Stoke Aldermoor.

Four years later and Gareth is seventeen and guess what his first car was a Mk2 Mini Cooper POJ 121G and from the day he purchased it his plan was one day to build all three.

     
    with their film perfect replica minis  

"I've got a great idea"

30 years on and still rolling on…

I purchased POJ 121G privately only a mile away from my parents house in Balsall Common in 1974 who I recall could hear me driving home from the pub as the car was fitted with a PECO straight through exhaust, The girls loved it, but it gave me headaches.

In 1987 I started a complete ground up restoration replacing the Mk2 body shell with a 1967 Mk1 shell to match the film cars.

"Why Mk1"- The car chase scenes were filmed during 1968 but used the 1969 Mk2 registration letter 'G' to coincide with the films release in 1969. "not allot of people know that"

Clock the Mk1 spot bar which I made in 1979 from Solid bar as the first prototype.

Many viewing hours went into perfecting the spot bar in its current form (if we only had HD quality and David Salamone's help back then) along with the bonnet straps, spot light stone guards and roll cage all of which Salamone and his father put together with the help of his contacts at Cibie who supplied everything except the bonnet straps.

Gareth (1979) in his ground up restoration Mk1 mini which he would sell to Daryl who would then sell on to David to become the Red Mini.

 
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