---
title: "This ‘Penny Lane’ Mini Could Be Yours for 2.5 Million Pennies"
description: "It's a clean machine."
date: "2018-08-17"
modified: "2019-04-10"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/22983/this-penny-lane-mini-could-be-yours-for-2-5-million-pennies"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "For Sale"
  - "Mini News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Beatles"
  - "MINI"
  - "Mini Cooper"
  - "Music"
---

# This ‘Penny Lane’ Mini Could Be Yours for 2.5 Million Pennies

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2018/08/penny-lane-mini-2.jpeg>)
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In case you missed out on [Sir Paul McCartney’s Aston Martin DB5](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/16162/sir-paul-mccartneys-aston-martin-db5-is-going-to-auction>) when it crossed the auction block last year, a different car with a Beatles connection that is equally British and perhaps even equally collectible is up for grabs. It doesn’t quite match the performance of a DB5, but it is more unique and more affordable. It’s a 1968 Morris Mini-Minor covered in 4,000 pennies, one of at least two used to promote the 1968 Beatles hit *Penny Lane*.

![message-editor%2F1534544642134-pennylanemini2.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544642134-pennylanemini2.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

![message-editor%2F1534544667646-pennylanemini3.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544667646-pennylanemini3.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

![message-editor%2F1534544675115-pennylanemini4.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544675115-pennylanemini4.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

According to [*Auto Classics*](<https://www.autoclassics.com/posts/news/penny-lane-mini-for-sale-beatles-mccartney>), the story goes like this: [Paul McCartney](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/21715/let-it-be-james-corden-breaks-down-with-a-beatle-in-latest-carpool-karaoke-episode>) commissioned at least two of these Penny Lane Minis to promote the song's release. Rumor is there might be a third one floating around somewhere in North America, but the one we see here is currently in private hands and was previously owned by a former employee of a company that used the car for promotional work. The other documented Penny Lane Mini sits in a Cornish Goldsmith exhibit in Redruth, England.

![message-editor%2F1534544690333-pennylanemini5.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544690333-pennylanemini5.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

![message-editor%2F1534544698922-pennylanemini6.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544698922-pennylanemini6.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

![message-editor%2F1534544707516-pennylanemini7.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1534544707516-pennylanemini7.jpeg>)
*Performance Auto Gallery*

The pennies on the body of the car are coated in lacquer protecting them from oxidation which is why most of them still have their [nice copper color](<https://www.sinkology.com/copper-bath-sinks/bath-kits/>). Thanks to the extra exterior decoration, this car weighs about 200 pounds more than a regular Mini which surely doesn’t do the car’s power-to-weight ratio any favors. In a previous life, this car was used to raise money for Liverpool-area charities, raising more than $900,000 over the years according to the listing. That’s a lot of pennies.

The asking price for this fun piece of [Beatles](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/5338/sonys-a-i-bots-wrote-us-a-beatles-song-about-driving>) memorabilia is only $25,000, or 25 million American pennies. Incidentally, the listing for the car [throws a 404 error](<https://www.autoclassics.com/advert/117996>) making us wonder if it’s already been sold. Either way, this is a pretty neat piece of both music and automotive history.

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