amazing!
Gosh - who let this thread die? Over the past few weeks I have uploaded nearly 500 McLaren F1 photos that I have been fortunate enough to take over the years to galleries on Flickr.com. Have a look through them when you have some time via these links: Jay Leno's chassis #015 at Art Center 2005 - 60 photos XP4 at the Monterey Historics 2005 - 49 photos Chassis #068 at the Monterey Historics 2005 - 83 photos Chassis #014 at the RM Auction 2006 - 197 photos Chassis #016 at the Monterey Historics 2006 - 92 photos There's a sample from each of the galleries below. Please enjoy! >8^) ER Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here's a video of the delivery of one of the F1's: http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-3209792204202049888&ei=xIamS63nEcyr-AbR2NmwBQ&q=f1+grand+prix+1978&hl=nl&view=3#docid=2894700317215595316 Anyone knows this car? Gr. Martin
Yeah, Dan Kennedy is the owner you see there. I forgot the chassis number, but #038 keeps coming to mind. He sold it I think to someone in Georgia. Then it went up on Ebay. I don't follow the F1 owner history that much, but I don't know where it is anymore.
Sold to Texas first, then on to Georgia, then believed to be in Connecticut where perhaps it has remained with what would be its 6th owner I guess. Chassis #038 was correct Al. Thanks for the compliments Tony Also thanks to Brian as I never said so for his comments he made a few pages back. I didn't even get to thank him in person as I had intended a few weeks back. I wandered off in another direction when I first bumped into you at SCS, and then didn't see you again till you were driving out. >8^) ER
Yellow one is now white, and in NY I think. When it was yellow, the controls were all labeled in Arabic. I don't know if they still are.
#38 is my favorite f1 if for no other fact than it was the first one I saw on the road. I almost crashed
Speedhunter's pull through again,this time with a visit to the McLaren factory that had a few F1's inside http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010/03/23/museum-cars-of-the-mclaren-technology-centre-woking.aspx
Erik, I'm quite positive you've had the question before, but the silver F1 that resided in Tx w/ the "Jesus Fish" on the rear, did it not change hands some years ago a new owner out-of-state? Just curious as to whether or not Texas still has a McLaren within its borders.
Yes, chassis #042 did find a new owner in Northern California early 2006, but not before its Texas owner had the car repainted in Rosso Corsa to match his Enzo. He also redid the interior in red as well, and from what I saw of that change it wasn't my favorite. The last pictures I have of the car were taken in January 2007, in Hayward, CA and it was still red. I had met the new owner once and he's a fairly private person, so that's not necessarily a surprise I guess that the car doesn't see much time in public. At the time I met him he also had a second F1, chassis #016. He's since sold that car, and perhaps could have done the same with #042 by now as well. Unfortunately I don't always get immediate updates when the cars move around. As for Texas - you have at least one McLaren F1 there at the moment. It's chassis #065, the one that was sold at auction in London at the end of 2008 for £2.5M, or roughly $4M USD. I believe the car is in the Houston area. I was also informed the owner of that car had purchased a second F1 and was having it Federalized. I don't yet know which car that one is, but I did guess it might be #013 which is also silver like #065. Perhaps he wanted one he could drive so he could keep #065 still in 'as new' condition? Chassis #036, the light blue car, has also been spotted in Texas a couple of times and was wearing Texas plates in one set of pictures that are a couple of pages back. >8^) ER
Wasn't there a doctor in Texas who had one of the early Amerispec cars? The one that Road & Track or some such magazine did a cover story on? Has that one been sold or is it still in Texas?
He wasn't a doctor though - he owns an oil company in Midland, TX that was started by his father called BTA Oil. >8^) ER
Just spent the past couple of hours reading this thread the knowledge is fantastic! Great seeing the brown car in Mexico, when I was younger we visited the London Motorshow (1995 I think) the BMW stand had a brown F1, have searched for many years for a picture of this with no success, do you think this car and the Mexico car could be one and the same? One of the pics of XP1 LM earlier in the thread jumped out at me, (guessing the picture came originally from the dyno shop, although I’m pretty sure there was an NDA in place), at the time (June 2005) we were making a racing game (Project Gotham racing 3) for Microsoft games studio We were lucky to have the use of XP1 LM for the day for audio recording purposes, the car was transported to the dyno shop by McLaren for recording, it want the usual rolling road as this can cause interference when recording but one which the wheels bolt directly to the rig, I remember special adaptors had to be fabricated in advance of the recording As you can imagine there were a number of stipulations of us having the use of the car, a number of engineers and one mechanic accompanied the car, it wasn’t to be driven on the road and only the engineers (and IIRC the dyno owner) were allowed to start / run the car It was a very special day, McLaren bought along an SLR which we were taken out in, fast but very ordinary when parked next to the F1 Was great to be able to look at every detail of the car up close the level of detail and quality was out of this world, through work we have been fortunate enough see most super cars up close and nothing even comes close Zonda included! The car sounded fantastic, very very loud! I always remeber the plastic seat cover, it was a regular white polythene like you'd get at any garage but had the F1 logo in red, dont think i've ever wanted a seat cover so much
No, I was talking about a green car. I believe the story mentioned the wife having to sit on towels because it got so hot inside as the aircon wasn't up to par. I know about the oil company owner's car that fchat user AnotherDunneDeal got to enjoy for a couple of days.
Here are a couple http://img266.imageshack.us/i/mclarenf1lmdyno1.jpg/ http://img218.imageshack.us/i/mclarenf1lmdyno20ce.jpg/
