#yellow mini

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Yellow Mini icons to make your heart hurt because if you know, you know. :)

From @ rodamrix's animation!

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Black & Yellow.

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Clouds and dirt.

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Rupert Graves as David Martin in LWT’s TV trailer for Open Fire (Paul Greengrass, LWT, 1994)

Posting this set because of some spooky synergy. Spot the yellow Mini.

Yellow Mini 1, 1983:

‘On 14 January 1983, London was the scene of an armed police operation that shocked the nation. In Pembroke Road, Earl's Court, during the evening rush-hour, a yellow Mini with three passengers, one a woman, came to a halt in a traffic jam. A group of men converged upon the Mini from both sides. ... The driver, shot five times and seriously wounded in the head, abdomen and liver, was pulled clear by police. ... Within an hour a senior officer at New Scotland Yard was making a public apology for 'a tragic case of mistaken identity' ... Stephen Waldorf, a film editor, had been ambushed by plainclothes detectives in the belief that he was David Martin, an escaped prisoner who was accused of the attempted murder of a police officer and was also facing bank robbery and firearms charges...’

– ‘The error to force change: One of the cases that sticks in public memory is the mistaken shooting of Stephen Waldorf, just ten years ago’, Independent, 10 Jan 1993 [x]

Yellow Mini 2, 1986:

‘Until recently Rupert drove around in a yellow Mini but then he smashed it up. “It was great fun. I actually enjoyed it. I was driving really fast and it was raining and I hit an oily patch and went skidding into the back of another car. All these old biddies were looking out from a tea-room window, tutting and shaking their heads. It was great!” Strange lad.’

– ‘Introducing Rupert Graves’, Just Seventeen magazine, 26 Nov 1986 [magazine] [transcript]

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My first thought was ‘did Open Fire use Rupert’s own old car?’, but clearly not... :)

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