Mclaren F1 Gt Brochure On Ebay!!!!!

HOLY CRAP!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2191303912&category=35936

Driving ambition is better

yes, but the brochure is probably rarer. i dont know of too many copies of "Driving Ambition" that cost $400...

somebody buy it then scan it for me!! i see at least 3 pics that i want.

yes, this definatley outweighs driving ambition on rareity

Did anyone save a picture of this brochure?

Yeah - I did - I mentioned in the other thread you resurfaced that I can share a picture later. It's actually fairly boring as far as the cover is concerned. It appears to be a dark green or black cover with just a small "GT" logo above and to the right of the center. The photos inside it look to be excellent though, and since there are so few good shots in circulation of the GTs I'd love to get someone to scan a copy for us. Given their value, most people probably don't even take them off the shelf though. :(

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My photographic memory isn't always perfect I guess. The logo on the cover is actually centered. I have another shot of it with a strange crop that led me off track. Also the cover is indeed green and not black.

http://a1.cpimg.com/image/AD/F5/42695341-9e99-028001E0-.jpg

Here's some various shots of pages inside. I don't recall how many pages there were in total.

http://a0.cpimg.com/image/98/F4/42695320-0af5-028001E0-.jpg

http://a1.cpimg.com/image/99/F4/42695321-cd1d-028001E0-.jpg

http://a2.cpimg.com/image/AE/F5/42695342-be72-028001E0-.jpg

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/9C/05/42695836-423d-028001E0-.jpg

http://a9.cpimg.com/image/9F/05/42695839-fb3c-028001E0-.jpg

I think I'd actually rather have a copy of this brochure than the Launch Brochure. I'm not an enormous fan of the F1 GT, but there's just not much reference material or many good photos of the 3 cars floating around in comparison to the other F1 variants. Being that it's the rarest of them all, this is certainly understandable, but hopefully someday that will change. Dreaming: Maybe Mr Selldorff will buy one and share it with us the way he has the LM. :lol:

There was also a one-sheet printed on the F1 GT. I've only seen one copy of it ever, and it was on Ebay. Someone else here was the winner of that auction, but I don't know if he intends to share better images/scans of it with us. It was two-sided, with a beautiful shot on the front and some smaller detail shots on the reverse along with some text about the car and McLaren Cars contact info.

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its got 32 pages. some nice picsinside for sure. i have scans of all teh pages buti think mclarne would hav e a cow if i poste d them. and the people selling them for outrageous amounts would be abit miffed too no doubt lol.

Interesting.... I've heard the story of these scans somewhere before. If you don't mind telling, did you make them yourself or did you get them from someone else?

Do you have scans of the Launch Brochure as well by chance?

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Wow !

This GT brochure is a collector´s dream. I should start saving money for that if it shows at ebay again.

Thank You very much for the pictures

Does anyone remember the final price of this gem? Or was 400$ the highest bid?

$400 was not the final bid. As I recall the auction closed at something like $1035 or maybe even a bit more than that. :eek:

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Much money for a brochure but I think the price is ok for such a rare item. The guy who made the fotos even had two of them, and I have none :(

Thanks for putting up the pics Peloton. Never knew the GT brochure was that thick. I had assumed it was only 8 pages. My priorities have now changed. :screwy: I must acquire one of those.

If Mr. Seldorff does get a GT, I'll buy a ticket to the East Coast and spend at least 3 days and 15 gigs worth of memory to photograph every detail of that car. :grinyes:

Regards

Ohhhh...my god the GT is the coolest looking car in the world!
Unlike anything else!
What I like the most about it is that it's just a little over the top:-)

51XPGT is my favorite McLaren of all time and Mr.Selldorff please take a deep dig in your wallet and give us the ultimate McLaren for show and review!

Comparing that GT goodie to Driving Ambition is out of this world!

Wow I must say Peloton a moderator and everything.......moving up in the world!?

Congratulations bud.

Ok, so the plan is Mr Selldorff drops about $2Mil USD on the GT Prototype McLaren is supposedly hanging onto, so that this little group of F1 fans here can get some better photos of it to drool on. Sounds great to me - I'll go ahead and shoot him an email right now so he can get the ball rolling. :naughty: :bigthumb:

I think he might throw us back this smiley just on the suggestion: :loser:

:lol2: :grinyes: :lol2:

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Ohhhh..would'nt it be great to hear his comparison of the LM and GT???
Now that would be a story I would read 10 times for pure pleasure. MG's ultimate McLaren vs. the Legendary LM....cool!

Wow I must say Peloton a moderator and everything.......moving up in the world!?

Congratulations bud.

Awww - thank you sir. :thumbsup:

Its been discussed in here a few times before, and a long time ago I asked one of the Admins about the position, but my request never really went anywhere so I dropped it.

Apparently some other Moderators here on AF.com nominated me for the slot recently and it finally got hooked up last night after I accepted the call.

There isn't really a lot of moderation that needs to go on in here for the most part, so it will be pretty much business as usual I'd suspect. Occasionally we do get a troll or a spammer, so it will be nice not to have to drop it in another moderator's lap for resolution.

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Ohhhh..would'nt it be great to hear his comparison of the LM and GT???
Now that would be a story I would read 10 times for pure pleasure. MG's ultimate McLaren vs. the Legendary LM....cool!


Thorst, I'm right there with you.

This reminds me of the 1st time I saw the Fina McLaren at Sebring in 97. I was in the back seat of the Blazer and saw that thing coming into view like an elusive great white shark showing its dorsal fin. After collecting my jaw from the floor, I scrambled for my camera.

Congratulations Peloton. Even though this particular forum doesn't need too much moderation, we occasionally do need moderated. I don't think you could have asked for a better, more knowledgeable person. Your slogan should be the old Dragnet line: "Just the facts ma'am. Just the facts." And I say that with sincerity. :smokin:

Regards

Who is this Mr Selldorff ?

Is he collecting cars like me collecting brochures?

Mr Selldorff is an F1 owner here in the USA. He has 3 F1s currently including one of the 5 customer LMs. Read all about it here (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=149954) if you have some free time.

There are other references to him and his cars scattered throughout the forum.

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Thanks Arch! Wait.... you're not just buttering me up so I don't hate you so badly when you outbid me on that F1 pedal set, are you? :lol:

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I'm pretty sure you'll get a hard time buying this set the both of you!

Ok, so the plan is Mr Selldorff drops about $2Mil USD on the GT Prototype McLaren is supposedly hanging onto, so that this little group of F1 fans here can get some better photos of it to drool on. Sounds great to me - I'll go ahead and shoot him an email right now so he can get the ball rolling. :naughty: :bigthumb:

I think he might throw us back this smiley just on the suggestion: :loser:

:lol2: :grinyes: :lol2:

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Riiiiight. You know it would be funny if he actually got the GT, but that's thinking super optimistically (and that is an understatement). By the way, congrats on becoming moderator. :bigthumb: You are the perfect candidate for the job.

Haven´t seen that peloton´s status just changed to moderator, but congratulations from me too, even after just one day it becomes obvious that he´s the right one.

And thanks for the F1-owner-thread-link, have read 2/3 of it so far -great !

I just come back to say Thank You for the information about the F1 GT brochure. Last weekend there was the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix at the Nürburgring and there was somebody with the GT brochure. He is very much in brochures and said he has never seen it before. Funny enough it was close to the softbound launch brochure for which he asked 400 Pounds / 600 Euros. Or was it 600 Pounds / 900 Euros? The GT was even cheaper than the lower price that so I had to buy it.

I don´t know how the McLaren lawyers would react if I would scan the entire brochure. But as there are most pages already shown in this thread i will make photographs of the missing pages tomorrow.

May be without this thread I wouldn´t have noticed this GT brochure.

Thanks again

I don´t know how the McLaren lawyers would react if I would scan the entire brochure. But as there are most pages already shown in this thread i will make photographs of the missing pages tomorrow.


PLEASE SCAN THE WHOLE THING. McLaren lawyers can't do much about that. We would be eternally grateful if you did scan it :D

I won´t be able to do real scans as I don´t have a scanner and I don´t want to bend the pages to much as this brochure is bounded. My pictures will look like the ones earlier in this thread. I will do my best.

By the way, how many GT street cars were made? I´m sure I´ve read that last December but I can´t remember.

Peloton, didn´t You mention somewhere in this forum that You got this brochure?

Yes, I got one earlier this year for ~$550 USD. The person I got it from had paid nearly $1500 USD when he purchased it. :eek:

I don't plan to keep it forever, but it was something that I wanted to see very badly. I do plan to scan my copy before passing it along. I will need a scanner first and will probably have one before this month is over.

Congrats on your find. :thumbsup:

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I will need a scanner first and will probably have one before this month is over.


FINALLY! :cool:

Yeah - now I just need to pick the one I want. You'd think after all this time of saying I need a scanner I would have done some shopping around, but no... :loser:

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Peloton,
for $100 you can get a scanner. For $160 you can get a scanner with document feeder, fax machine, and really nice inkjet printer. I have an HP OfficeJet 6110 and I highly recommend it.

I know I can get 'a scanner' for $100, but I probably won't be buying a $100 scanner. I'm almost certain that I'll be buying a tabloid scanner capable of scanning A3 or 11x17" sized pages. I have a lot of things I want to scan that are larger than most scanner beds - which typically handle A4 or 8.5x14" paper. Of course I have the skills to piece things together after the fact, but I don't always have the time to get it done so that's why a larger scanner makes sense for me. At one of my previous jobs we had several tabloid scanners for artwork and they were great!

I really don't have any need for the other features you mention, nor do I have any need for scanning slides or transparencies - in fact I will be specifically looking for something without them. Once I get the tabloid I want, depending on it's speed (some are slow) I may also buy something smaller for lighter/faster jobs.

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Yeah - now I just need to pick the one I want. You'd think after all this time of saying I need a scanner I would have done some shopping around, but no... :loser:

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You've been complaining for 3+ years. Time to do something about it buddy! :D

OK, of course this is far away from nice scans but at least You can see how many beautiful pics are inside this brochure

http://www.brochurebox.de/f1gtbrochure.jpg

Nice work there. :thumbsup:

BTW: If you like the GT, be sure to check out the images that ArchangelGTR put in this thread.

Images from Rosso Magazine (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=442208)

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OK, of course this is far away from nice scans but at least You can see how many beautiful pics are inside this brochure

http://www.brochurebox.de/f1gtbrochure.jpg
I have all the pages scanned...waiting for the website to go live before I post them. Maybe I will make an album later and just throw them up.

Ohhhh...my god the GT is the coolest looking car in the world!
Unlike anything else!
What I like the most about it is that it's just a little over the top:-)

51XPGT is my favorite McLaren of all time and Mr.Selldorff please take a deep dig in your wallet and give us the ultimate McLaren for show and review!

Comparing that GT goodie to Driving Ambition is out of this world!

this guy knows what im talking about!
btw what colors were the gt manufactured in? ive only seen the burgundy and green ones, was there a black one? are any pictures floating around of the 3rd one, i may have seen one photo of it, if it is indeed black, but the quality of the photo was poor and it may have just been the green one... im sure you all have seen it, the one of the gt in the rain with lots of people around it...

The three were:

56XPGT: Green (like XP5)
54F1GT: Black
58F1GT: Burgundy

Unfortunately much like XP5, 56XPGT normally looks black instead of green in most photos. It says in Driving Ambition that the prototype was used for the GT Brochure, but after looking at all the photos in there, its even quite difficult to tell in any of them that the car is green.

The photo you mention was definitely a shot of 56XPGT. It was taken at Silverstone and the car ended up in the display with XP5, XP1 LM and #01R.

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The three were:

56XPGT: Green (like XP5)
54F1GT: Black
58F1GT: Burgundy

Unfortunately much like XP5, 56XPGT normally looks black instead of green in most photos. It says in Driving Ambition that the prototype was used for the GT Brochure, but after looking at all the photos in there, its even quite difficult to tell in any of them that the car is green.

The photo you mention was definitely a shot of 56XPGT. It was taken at Silverstone and the car ended up in the display with XP5, XP1 LM and #01R.

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you are correct, as usual, and here are photos i was referring to, it seems as though it was just unloaded off the truck... and xp1lm is up next, with xp5 parked behind xp56gt
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/FortuneF1/f1gt1.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/FortuneF1/f1gtb.jpg
this is indeed xp56gt, as you can catch hints of the green color in the light reflections off the body lines...

i never noticed this before but in the second photo 56xpgt is running, you can see the hint of exhaust fumes, must have been a chilly day, and the reverse light is on

also does anyone have photos of 54f1gt, ive never seen any!

So who exactly were these brochures made for? Were these only for very interested (and qualified) buyers or anyone who would stop by McLaren's showroom? Any estimates on the number made?

I've got no real answer on the number of F1 GT brochures that were made or what exactly they did with them. I do know that as far as Ebay is concerned (which I monitor frequently) that seeing one come up for sale is extremely rare - only outdone by a few other pieces of McLaren literature like the Owner's Manual that kick started this thread. It's especially rare in comparison to the Launch Brochure which is itself sometimes non-existent for several weeks/months at a time.

There's a large group of borchure collectors out there who seem to have little real interest in the F1, but who typically jump on the GT brochure and drive up the price dramatically when one appears. It will be very interesting to see if that occurs again.

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I just can say that the F1 brochure is rare but collectors know that it exists. The GT was totally new for me when I read about it in this forum, I didn´t even know that there was a streetlegal longtail-version, I knew the GTR but not the GT. Of course I talked about the GT when I was talking to other collectors since I have it, nobody said that he has this brochure in his collection but many have the F1.

I would estimate that there are 10x more "normal" F1 brochures (hardbound and softbound together) than GT´s.

Is there some known information of the time between the production of the dark green GT prototype and the last (third) GT in comparison to the production period of the F1?

Is there some known information of the time between the production of the dark green GT prototype and the last (third) GT in comparison to the production period of the F1?

the gt was in production for maybe 6 months???...

In case no one noticed, or bothered to look, the F1 GT brochure failed to reach it's reserve with a final bid of £202.00 or ~$353.00.

That's a shame...

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oops, didn´t see that.


But he seems to have sold it now, the relisted item is no longer visible.

Is there someone who can confirm that this one is complete?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6576332768&fromMakeTrack=true

Is there someone who can confirm that this one is complete?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6576332768&fromMakeTrack=true

It's complete for the basic LM Press Kit, but the complete version came in a plastic folder and included a copy of the "McLaren Pursuit of Perfection" LeMans VHS tape. It also included 4 slides which this one doesn't have.

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In case no one noticed, or bothered to look, the F1 GT brochure failed to reach it's reserve with a final bid of £202.00 or ~$353.00.

That's a shame...

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I did! but after my initial 'bet' thought I'd shut up!!! Xmas is coming though ... so expenditure like 650 GBP on a GT brochure is a wee bit excessive! ;)

There's a Brochure on Ebay... 1 of 2.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300362982039

I have a feeling this may go for a few £'s........... :) Too rich for me at the moment though :(

I've had the McLaren brochure from the outset but I was tickled pink when Nigel Gordon-Stewart, the MD, sent me this lovely F1 enamel badge with the McLaren Xmas card in 1992. I've never seen another. I wonder what it is worth now? I'm not selling mind, nor the brochure (which is still in its original packing) but am mindful of the tons of old brochures and collectibles I have here but am curious since I am revaluing my insurance policy.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u216/lynxd67/Maclarenbadge.jpg

Sorry about the photo - did it in haste!

Nice!! I bought the Christmas Card signed by some of the Directors with the Mclaren F1 GTR #01R in the wreath off eBay last year and only paid about £50 for it. I think that was quite cheap?....

No real clue on value there - worth what someone will pay for it as they say. If Greg paid £50 for his, and likely others were bidding too, well then there you go. Perhaps his card has signatures from more prominent members of the organization though? To be honest, I don't recall even hearing the name Nigel Gordon-Stewart before. :redface:

I am mostly curious how it came to be that I already have your photo in my collection as of July 5th, 2009 with the same filename, misspelling the word 'McLaren' even. My copy is a few shades darker, but a spot on identical image. :screwy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20H/Maclarenbadge.jpg

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People, get on ebay now!

Search Mclaren f1 brochure press pack 1992 gordon murray rare, and yes it is the brochure, so there is another out there for sale now !

People, get on ebay now!

Search Mclaren f1 brochure press pack 1992 gordon murray rare, and yes it is the brochure, so there is another out there for sale now !

This post feels rather strangely like the kind that you would see from a person who has registered here solely to advertise their own product - a practice we would generally frown upon from someone who is not a regular or even infrequent contributor.

Anyway, perhaps you aren't guilty of this since you didn't provide a direct link as most would, but your desire to promote the item seems just a little too eager. And since you didn't provide the link, I'll go ahead and do so here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360256019386

Now everyone can have a look, and see that whomever is offering this item clearly knows very little about the item they are selling. This is commonly referred to as the "Launch Brochure" and frankly they aren't as rare as some might wish to believe. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few thousand copies in circulation. As to the 'Buy it Now' price on this auction, it is easly 5 times what I paid for the exact same item in perfect condition.

Caveat emptor. ;)

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PS: Also a bit strange I never got a reply from lowdrag on that image? :dunno:

The value of that soft version in perfect condition has been around £150-200 lately. Even the rarer version of this brochure with Gordon's signature does not command such a price the seller is asking, maybe half of that would be closer to what's the current value. For that price the seller is now asking I would already expect to get the original manuals of the road car like was auctioned last year for around £1.100, if I remember right. These launch brochures popup every now and then on ebay and some of the auctions have ended up "seller relisted this item" if the price stayed too low. Everyone are free to draw their own conclusions about such auctions. ;)