How many actual Mclaren F1 cars built?

[Peloton25]

Not really...

I did make these two recently, but the quality is rather dodgy considering they were made from enlarged scans. Better than nothing I guess.



This is a nice photo too - would be even better if I made the "DO NOT TOUCH" sign disappear, and better still if that fence wasn't there:



>8^)
ER

[Peloton25]

Pulled up our most recent discussion on Edward to add these two gems:



Thanks to crotale on SFC.com

>8^)
ER

[carbuilder2002]

Hmm I was at the 2005 Goodwood festival and took a few pictures of Mr Masons car. Left my contact details and he actually got in touch with me. Have been trying to set up an in depth meeting with his car for a prolonged photo session but we are having trouble getting a mutually agreeable date

[carbuilder2002]

Anyone know what they did with the spare chassis?

[F1 monster]

McLaren still has it. If a car ever gets crashed badly enough to need it, and the owner is willing to foot the bill, that's how it will get used. Until then, it will sit in storage.

[carbuilder2002]

Intersting I just assumed they would just build a new one from the original tooling if ever a replacement was required following their original claim that it was a car for life. If it needed anything replacing they just made new parts as and when required since they claimed almost everything was made to order anyway. In truth we now know that more than a few parts were infact borrowed from other manufacturers or suppliers.

[F1 monster]

Well, they would be essentially building a new car if they were to use the spare chassis. And I think they would have to fabricate a whole bunch of new carbon fibre panels if it came down to having to use the spare chassis.

I don't know what chassis number any such creation would bear. It's a bit of a grey area as to what constitutes a new car or a repaired one, when you replace the central tub. How would you determine it? Number of new parts? Cost of new parts? Owner's whim? Factory production criteria?

[carbuilder2002]

Well if you look at Lotus I have replaced chassis in a couple so if you replaced the body mouldings at the same time you could still use the original chassis number so long at you replaced the chassis plate on your new chassis.

[F1 monster]

A McLaren is built slightly differently...the tub is the car, essentially. Pretty much everything hangs off the tub. The Elise would be close, but other Lotuses are not comparable.

[carbuilder2002]

I see where you are comming from but so long as you reafix the chassis plate to the new body tub it effectivley replaces the old tub. This would be entirely possible because the original tub would be in an irepearable state anyway and would naturally be destroyed.hence no rick of there being 2 with the same number. I build a new XJ12 Coupe some years ago with a new factory monocoque and all I did was precisely this the only legal requirement was that I provide proof of the destruction of the old body shell.