I READ WITH GREAT INTEREST your article concerning Sir Paul Smith’s various cars in Octane149. I had just le the Royal College of Art when I was lucky enough to be asked by Paul to suggest some designs for a limited run of Paul Smith Minis and a one-off show car. I was given complete – albeit unpaid – freedom to come up with anything I liked.
My first efforts were based on the old Minivans and trucks. Body-coloured stamped grille, steel wheels with hub caps, and a series of industrial colours that included ‘cement-mixer orange’
At the eleventh hour Rover let us down; they could not make or source any of the parts, nor could they mix a decent orange. So I had to do a whole new design pretty much…
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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015