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Here’s an excerpt about the Winter Rod and Speed Benefit Car Show on Sat. Jan. 23rd in Albany, Oregon as seen on Motortopia website http://www.motortopia.com/event/2989 :

Winter Rod and Speed Show

“The 2010 Winter Rod and Speed Benefit Car Show is Saturday, January 23 at the Linn County Expo Center in Albany, Oregon. This family-oriented, carnival-like benefit vehicle show is for Cherokee Pizano.

Cherokee is a 14 year old girl from Salem, Oregon who has Osteo Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer. She is currently undergoing radiation treatments at Dornbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. Cherokee and her mother are homeless.

The show could be the biggest in its three year history. The Winter Rod and Speed Show will feature the original cars from the movie American Graffiti, the $100,000 “Judge” GTO, the classic Veney’s Vega funny car, and the debut of the new Ashwell Racing Mustang funny car. In addition, there will muscle cars, street rods, custom trucks, motorcycles, drag boats, and classics.”

Photo credit: Martin Pettitt

No need leads in the case of the missing Beatles car, a black 1965 Austin Princess limo, currently owned by Rod Pitman of Portland, Oregon (UK Registration Mark FGO 586C,Serial# VDM4 16087). We need your help to be on the look out for this automobile; there’s a reward offered if the car is recovered.

There’s a long history to Pitman’s Beatles car, which we’ll go into more detail in future posts. In reviewing certified copies of original documentation provided by Pitman, the first owner of the Austin Princess limo was apparently a mortuary in the U.K. which purchased the new automobile in September of 1965. After a year, the car was then sold to the Beatles Ltd of London on September 15, 1966. Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed the original U.K. vehicle registration book on behalf of the Beatles for the purchase of the car (see Pitman’s documentation here).

If cars could talk, I wonder what back seat stories this one could tell, with it’s original owners being a mortuary and The Beatles?

Contact us via email at: car {at} rocknrollcars {dot} com if you think you might have a lead in this case. Pitman seems to think his former Beatles car is still within the United States, but we’ll open up the search to anywhere in the world.

If you have any information or sources of photos for this particular vehicle, especially from it’s early days in the U.K., we’d like to hear from you as well.

Thank you for your help.
Eva Abreu, Editor
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