Ringo Starr bought a Ford Zephyr to transport his drums around. Look, I know there are readers out there who thought the Zephyr could have rivalled Holden at the time. But let me say just one thing. They built them in New Zealand. Don't get me wrong. Like all nouveau riche, as soon as the pounds started rolling in the boys went and bought posh cars. Well after all they named the group after a popular VW model.
Naturally the first song that comes into your head is of course, Baby You Can Drive My Car. Drive my car is an old blues expression for sex. Then there was the one from the lads at our big four, Penny Lane. "On the corner is a banker with a motor car, And little children laugh at him behind his back."
Former Hamilton Island resident George Harrison was a true petrolhead. George was a mate of Jackie Stewart and drove Stirling Moss's Lotus 18 F1 car.
George also owned a Jaguar XKE, a platinum-silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5, a Ferrari 365 GTC, a McLaren F1 supercar and a Light Car Company Rocket designed by Gordon Murray.
OK the reason I am writing all this stuff is because Worldwide Auctions are selling John Lennon's 1965 Merc 230SL in Scottsdale next month.