Mick + Austin Car

[holidayroad]

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/rocki...d=autos_4032#6

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Mick Fleetwood
Fleetwood Mac was so successful in the late-'70s that band founder Mick Fleetwood stored his cute Austin 7 with Eric Clapton when he went to America (Eric is his former brother-in-law), and promptly forgot about the tiny 7-horsepower tourer for 16 years. Restored now, it transports Fleetwood and his elderly mum around Maui. He also fondly recalls his Ferrari 275 GTB. "It's spectacular, masculine, powerful, and I just thought the look of the car was extraordinary." Fleetwood says "the car gene exists in musicians and that's why we're susceptible." Fleetwood's a car guy, all right, with a stealth Porsche Turbo that he runs on Maui's back roads at night.

[michelej1]

I guess since the divorce, Mick has had to go around finding old things and reusing them.

He and Biddy will be having a garage sale any day now.

Michele

[Josh2003]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I guess since the divorce, Mick has had to go around finding old things and reusing them.

He and Biddy will be having a garage sale any day now.

Michele

Wouldn't that make for an amazing sitcom? Elderly British man and his even more elderly mother, gone from riches to rags, forced to live together in the back room of their only means of income: a restaurant catering to Hawaii tourists? They bicker, they joke, the world laughs with them.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Josh2003

Wouldn't that make for an amazing sitcom? Elderly British man and his even more elderly mother

I'm cracking up, even though I shouldn't. My mom's older than Mick and she's still youthful, but honestly . Michele

[louielouie2000]

I'm such a car fan, that little Austin is adorable. Hard to imagine huge Mick driving such tiny little cars as that Austin & a turbo Porsche 911. I never pictured Mick being a car guy at all for whatever reason.

[jenniferuk]

The Top Gear episode he did was good fun- he spoke of seeing the Austin parked in a street and leaving a 'ring me if you ever want to sell' note on it and then ages later receiving a call.

I think he said his children named it Lettuce Leaf due to the green colour, and he told of the excitement of collecting it from the shipping dock in Hawaii.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I'm such a car fan, that little Austin is adorable. Hard to imagine huge Mick driving such tiny little cars as that Austin & a turbo Porsche 911. I never pictured Mick being a car guy at all for whatever reason.

Ken said that both Mick and John were interested in his cars, but not Christine and Stevie and that Lindsey's interest was just a little more heightened than the girls', but Lindsey wasn't into cars like the other guys.

Mick strikes me as such a connoisseur. So his interest in fashion and wine would extending to classic cars does not surprise me. Still, I don't see him caring about the latest Tesla, though.

Michele

[Macfanforever]

How cute that car looks.I cant picture Mick folding himself up and getting inside a Mini Cooper.