In celebration of Paddy's 1964 Monte Carlo victory (with Henry Liddon) a 50th Anniversary Gala will be held 22 Feb 2014 at Titanic Belfast. The planning group has been busy with preliminary events, etc, which can be tracked on Twitter and Facebook. They've been posting pics. See this thread for a bunch of them. About a decade ago there was a Paddy Hopkirk Documentary timed to roughly coincide with the 40th anniversary. I'd not seen it and I'm happy to say the 50th gala group have quartered it, give or take, and are posting the parts to YouTube every couple weeks. Here are the first two, I'll post the others as they're available. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IKmDc4c4Lg]Paddy Hopkirk Documentary P1 of 4 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvcjzK7PFVQ]Paddy_Hopkirk_Doc_P2 - YouTube[/ame]
Met Paddy several years ago at the Chicago Auto Show. MINI had him there at the press preview signing photos. Since I didn't own a MINI then, I gave mine away to a friend's son. Wish I'd have gotten 2 now.
Parts 3 & 4: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrnt_WmmOHM]Paddy_Hopkirk_Part 3_Doc - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUFX3FmbDeg]Paddy Hopkirk Doc Part 4 - YouTube[/ame]
Parts 5 & 6 (of 6): [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oP9q_d410]Paddy Hopkirk Doc Part 5 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8uiQ8iQL30]Final Part of the Paddy Hopkirk BBC Documentary - YouTube[/ame]