XP4 Arriving in the us...

Small, but cool. Just found it

http://www.popepackaging.co.nz/McLaren2.jpg

Cool find - but I think your description is slightly off.

The website you found that on is from New Zealand, the country of origin for XP4 prior to it's trip across the Pacific, so that's probably not an 'arrival' photo, but a 'departure' one.

I wonder if they flew the car or shipped it? I'd choose the plane if it was my million dollar sports car.

>8^)
ER

It's definitely being transported on a plane. You need a pallet in a plane's cargo hold so you can slide the car in without much effort. There are rollers built into the flooring and into the platform of the motorized scissor lift that's used to unload cargo pallets from airplanes.

You wouldn't need a pallet for an ocean shipping container. A car can be driven or rolled right into one. Then, chocks are hammered in to block the wheels and the car is tied down.

The battery is disconnected on longer trips too--which creates all sorts of problems with car alarms closing the windows and locking the car up as soon as the battery is reconnected...makes you look like a right chump! :icon16:

look the indicator lights , they are inverted , they are in the outside ...

I guess the lights are reversible, so maybe someone just wasn't paying attention when they re-installed them. Someone must have taken the time to switch them back though, as here is a more recent photo taken in CA.

Good eye though!! :bigthumb:

>8^)
ER

well spotted

I'm still gutted thatt XP4 left NZ B:( after all it is Mr McLarens home oh well life goes on.............