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01-10-2009, 05:16 PM | #1 | |
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Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
The T.25 is Murray's 25th design. While we can easily name some of the others — the F1, SLR, the LCC Rocket, possibly the Midas and about a dozen Formula 1 cars, has anyone seen any sort of list? I would be really interested to see one, and, failing that, start one.
Also, I didn't realize until today that Gordon Murray Design is headquartered in the same business park where the McLaren F1's carbon fiber pieces were manufactured (Shalford) but not assembled. Here (Google Maps) |
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01-10-2009, 06:43 PM | #2 | ||
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
I was poking around trying to find an answer to this after receiving your PM and came upon this article which I thought was quite good from an unlikely source:
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01-10-2009, 07:25 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
Wow, that's tremendously helpful!
I also found this painting, which I know I've seen before, but could provide some answers.
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01-11-2009, 10:02 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
This is in no way complete, but it's getting there.
At the Art Center in Pasadena in 2005, Murray was presented with the painting above. It showed 35 of the cars GM has designed. "GM didn't have the heart to tell him it was missing 12 of the 47 cas he had designed." source So 47 in 2005, which means 48 including the T.25! Guess the title is no longer correct. Another article acknowledged this and labeled the T.25 as the "25th car Murray's designed not including variants." It also labeled the McLaren F1 as "Type 22", which is helpful as a reference. 1 1966 Ian Gordon Murray Ford "IGM Ford" 2 1972 DeCadenet LM1 Duckhams Ford 3 1972 Brabham BT42 Cosworth 4 1974 Brabham BT44 Cosworth 1975 Brabham BT44B Cosworth 5 1974 DeCadenet LM1 Duckhams Ford 6 1976 Brabham BT45 Alfa Romeo 1977 Brabham BT45B Alfa Romeo 1977 DeCadenet LM4 Ford (Belga livery) 1978 Brabham BT45C Alfa Romeo 7 1978 Brabham BT46 Alfa Romeo 8 1978 Brabham BT46B Alfa Romeo (Fancar) 9 1979 Brabham BT48 Alfa Romeo 10 1979 Brabham BT49 Cosworth 1981 Brabham BT49C Cosworth 1981 Midas Mark 2 1982 Brabham BT49D Cosworth 11 1982 Brabham BT50 BMW 12 1982 Brabham BT51 BMW (scrapped before competition) 13 1983 Brabham BT52 BMW 1984 Brabham BT52B BMW 14 1984 Brabham BT53 BMW 1985 Midas Mark 3 Gold 15 1985 Brabham BT54 BMW 16 1986 Brabham BT55 BMW 17 1988 McLaren MP4-4 Honda 18 1989 McLaren MP4-5 Honda 19 1990 McLaren MP4-5B Honda 20 1989 Light Car Company Rocket 22 1993 McLaren F1 (Type 22) 23 1995 McLaren F1 GTR 1996 McLaren F1 GTR 1996 McLaren F1 LM 1997 McLaren GTR Longtail 1997 McLaren F1 GT 24 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 25 2012 Type 25 City Car
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01-12-2009, 12:31 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
Just a point of clarification on the painting. It was actually given to him by a guy who showed up at the door of his home in England, as I recall.
He used it as the opening slide for his presenatation at Art Center in 2005. I know this because I was sitting next to TVRFreak (who created the McLarenFreak website) in the theater that day, and I heard Gordon give the same description you relayed from there. >8^) ER |
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01-12-2009, 03:07 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
great painting!
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09-11-2009, 02:52 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Gordon Murray's 25 Designs
Just came across this thread.
Is the SLR McLaren really GM's design? He fought tooth and nail to change as much as he could about that car, and still thinks it's an abomination. Not sure he would want to be credited with it being his creation or design. He provided a lot of input on it, reluctantly, and wanted to change much more than he was allowed to, before it was released to the public. I think it's a MB creation, or, at most, a Mercedes-McLaren collaboration (80% of it being MB). |
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