Beep-beep Yeah! Beatles-related car sales ledger sold

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A most remarkable Beatles related automobilia item was sold last weekend through a website called the Beatles Marketplace. It was a well-used and pretty scruffy 37-page sales ledger for Brydor Cars – the brokering company set up by Beatles manager Brian Epstein in the mid-1960s.

From the seller’s blurb: “A meticulously accurate hand-written sales ledger for Brydor Cars listing all 597 cars they bought and sold during the companies history between November 1964 and January 1967.”

When studying it, it turns out that of the 597 car transactions, 49 were either bought or sold by the Beatles personally and/or Beatles friends and associates, with 24 cars for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey. These include Paul and George's Aston Martin DB's, John's Rolls Royce and all four of the Beatles coachbuilt Mini Coopers.

Two of the latter models were sold recently. Paul McCartney’s Radford Mini de Ville was sold at $236,500 a month ago when brought to auction in the US, while Ringo Starr’s example sold for £102,300 last December. Both cars had been restored and especially Starr’s needed lots of work in order to get it right.

The sales ledger, ‘condition poor’ made £1,500 last weekend, which certainly seems not bad for such a unique document and an intriguing bit of history to us. The seller stated: “It is the only definitive and accurate record of the cars the Beatles bought and sold during this time. It corrects and puts the record straight on a lot of errors, regarding the Beatles cars, which are stated as facts throughout the internet.” Some pictures of the pages can be found here.

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