Atkinson spotted in London

Not particularly exciting, but nice to see the car being used nontheless. Even on a rainy day!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=207860

Nice find !

Sweet!

Though I see a post from you in that thread claiming he has a longtail road car. To my knowledge, it's a longtail GTR - #24R - and I'm fairly certain it's not road legal.

You should share the interior photo of his car over there:

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

BTW: Anyone else think that PH.com should revoke the membership of someone who sees a McLaren F1 and only takes one picture? :screwy: :lol2:

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Just slightly off topic. I caught a bit of a programme on which had Mel Smith (of the comedy series Smith and Jones) talking about his Rolls Royce Corniche. A truely beautiful car. He was the director on "Mr Bean the Movie" And he talked briefly about the time Rowan took him out in the F1.

He said the same thing everyone says. That when you're in another fast car the rate of acceleration starts to slow as you get to 90,100,110. But he said in the F1 even when your up to 160 its still going and he said he was scared :D

Nice to see Rowan uses his how it should be :D

rowan drives it fast and has wrecked it befor also...

Yes he has. Hit a Maestro IIRC. That was back in 99

Accident-prone Mr Bean crashes 650,000 pound sports car
October 26, 1999
BY LEWIS SMITH

ROWAN ATKINSON, the comedian, yesterday crashed the prized 650,000 pound sports car that he bought to celebrate the success of his hit Mr Bean film.

Atkinson, who became a household name for his television roles as Blackadder and the Mini-driving Mr Bean, walked away unscathed from the crash, but his car was badly damaged. He had been driving along the A6 at Forton, Lancashire, when he was involved in the collision with a Rover Metro. The driver of the other car, Margaret Greenhalgh, suffered whiplash injuries.

As Mr Bean, Atkinson was famous for driving an aged Mini, or sometimes a Reliant Robin, but in real life he drives expensive, fast cars and the MacLaren F1 is just one of a string of vehicles he has owned, which include Rolls Royces and Mercedes. Only 150 MacLaren F1s were sold and owners were advised to get special driving lessons to help them to cope with its handling.

Atkinson has a particular soft spot for Aston Martins and he chose the Zagato model as his luxury, together with a tin of wax polish, when he
appeared on Radio Four's Desert Island Discs.

His MacLaren F1, which is fitted with a Formula 1 engine and has a top speed of 230 mph, had to be towed away from the scene yesterday after suffering extensive damage to the bodywork.

Mr Atkinson's brother Rodney, said after the crash: "Obviously, we are relieved that he is uninjured. He's an absolute fanatic when it comes to cars. The faster they are the more he likes them. He's a very good driver."

Police are investigating the crash. Mrs Greenhalgh's husband, Robert, said: "Margaret told me that he couldn't have been nicer. She was impressed he was so concerned with her welfare."

Not sure of the source, but this seems to be the most accurate report on the event. Of course we know there weren't 150 sold :disappoin , and we know it's not a Formula 1 engine :shakehead , and it's certainly not spelled "MacLaren" :banghead: but the rest of the details are probably good. :grinyes:

Another article can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/485692.stm

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I remember. It made a real mess of the nose cone area. But the Rover he hit, only had a small dent.

He is fundamentally a nice bloke though, so Im not surprised he was concerned for the lady.

anyone seen photos of the f1 that the "then" ceo of bmw rolled at 150mph and walked away unscathed, well uninjured anyway. or have any info on that wreck, i forget his name.

That's a really cool pic, would be a great one for exoticspotter.com. I love how it's just sitting there making all other vehicles look terrible. I'd probably make that shot my wallpaper if it was big enough. The rainy effect is cool.

His MacLaren F1, which is fitted with a Formula 1 engine and has a top speed of 230 mph, had to be towed away from the scene yesterday after suffering extensive damage to the bodywork.

OMG !!! This is so "wrong " about it !! :disappoin

:grinno: only 230MPH ?

:uhoh: Btw the whole things just looks like a "Soap" news afterall....
I still wish that someone wrote this ,please go and grab some detail about this car...

:banghead: F1 engine !!! ?? when mclaren turn back to V10 piston and rev over 16K rpm ?? :cwm27:

I came by this post to dig some Mr. Rowan's F1 pictures up for the purpose of making the tale about him..but as you see below address, :lol:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=207860

Has the post been sensored? I don't see any pic?

Has the post been sensored? I don't see any pic?

you seem not to have seen the original pic of Rowan's McF1 of the guy mentioning, now as you see, its pic is totally different one. So should you have seen the initial pic, probably your radar detector would have not been dull. Unfortunatly i dont have that pic..

Has the post been sensored? I don't see any pic?

i missed it too; I have some pics of his F1, but i dont think i have this one :banghead: can anyone here please re-host it?

Was it this one?

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/323/16561car0ps.th.png (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=16561car0ps.png)

(clickable)

Was it this one?

If it was, then it's an old pic / old thread. Now I realize I didn't check the date in the thread to see how recent it was.
I think Peloton posted here a while ago already....

Hurst, now we know you have 13 pics of it, of course we want you to share them! Cause I don't recall having seen that many of it. :D

This was the thread where the image originally appeared - though linked to PH.com as you see in the original post. It wasn't actually posted here.

I think most of the images hurst would have of Atkinson's car are screengrabs taken from the Top Gear program.

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Leaving Buckingham Palace late at night??

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/2534/raf18cw.th.png (http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=raf18cw.png)

(clickable)

I think most of the images hurst would have of Atkinson's car are screengrabs taken from the Top Gear program.
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true, i'll post what i have tomorrow.........

The car looks frosty in that pic. Kinda velvety.

ok, here we go with all my #061 piccies -
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/4990/061rowan2mo.th.jpg (http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan2mo.jpg)
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/9079/061rowan12qx.th.jpg (http://img464.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan12qx.jpg)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/5448/061rowan24cr.th.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan24cr.jpg)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/3329/061rowan31uf.th.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan31uf.jpg)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7834/061rowan46st.th.jpg (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan46st.jpg)
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7325/061rowan57jb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4707/061rowan65fi.th.jpg (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan65fi.jpg)
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5720/061rowan75vu.th.jpg (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan75vu.jpg)
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5282/061rowan86zt.th.jpg (http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan86zt.jpg)
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/4169/061rowan103au.th.jpg (http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowan103au.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6042/061rowanatkinsonsp380gjm2xv.th.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=061rowanatkinsonsp380gjm2xv.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9001/pdvd1062ec9rv.th.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdvd1062ec9rv.jpg)
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/2251/pdvd1100iz8rp.th.jpg (http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdvd1100iz8rp.jpg)
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/1640/pdvd1129dl9jv.th.jpg (http://img161.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdvd1129dl9jv.jpg)
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8661/pdvd1137op6yr.th.jpg (http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdvd1137op6yr.jpg)

Lets see if anyone has any others not listed above!....

I have two that you are missing, but they're almost not worth posting. Both are tiny camera phone shots of his car when spotted on the road. In one you can almost tell it's a McLaren and the other one was taken at a traffic light from behind his car. I thought they were already here on the forum, but after searching I can't seem to find the original thread.

They are almost as good as the Bookatrack photo, but about 1/4 the size. Most people probably wouldn't even save them. :lol:

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I have two that you are missing, but they're almost not worth posting. Both are tiny camera phone shots of his car when spotted on the road. In one you can almost tell it's a McLaren and the other one was taken at a traffic light from behind his car. I thought they were already here on the forum, but after searching I can't seem to find the original thread.

They are almost as good as the Bookatrack photo, but about 1/4 the size. Most people probably wouldn't even save them. :lol:

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lets have a looksee then!.....:) ANY photo has to be worth a post :p

I agree - but they are at home and I am not.

I may set up FolderShare (https://www.foldershare.com) soon so that I don't have this problem anymore. :dunno:

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I knew there was something I was forgetting. :loser:

As described, you can see these are almost worth forgetting, but I do have worse in the collection including some shots I took of #067. :banghead:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20C/image037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20C/image038.jpg

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the first shot is actually pretty good, but yes the second one explains what you meant :rofl:

thanks for the pics, i had not seen them before, and some of yours hurst. :smokin:

As described, you can see these are almost worth forgetting, but I do have worse in the collection including some shots I took of #067. :banghead:
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these ones?....

http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/7264/067eoinmusk37td.th.jpg (http://img325.imageshack.us/my.php?image=067eoinmusk37td.jpg)http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/9870/067eoinmusk44kc.th.jpg (http://img332.imageshack.us/my.php?image=067eoinmusk44kc.jpg)http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/7103/067eoinmusk23vc.th.jpg (http://img332.imageshack.us/my.php?image=067eoinmusk23vc.jpg)

I think they give the shot a bit of action and they arent as bad as you make out :)

Yup - those are the ones. :shakehead

I'm glad some people like them. It was the best I could do given the circumstances. :lol:

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Thank you all of truely MCF1 lovers.

Side note : A passion in excess of moral standard level to certain subject seem not to appear direction of orginally intended to. Nevertheless i love this forum and people unquestionally who have enthusiasm to one thing we go after with sheer love.

couldnt you wave at him to say he'd go to a gas station so you could take better pics?:grinyes:

Flickr is our friend ;)
http://img171.imagevenue.com/loc707/th_11392_1951384997_1a79ddc4df_o_122_707lo.jpg (http://img171.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=11392_1951384997_1a79ddc4df_o_122_70 7lo.jpg)
Spotted in Cambridge, and he only took 1 pic :shakehead

only 1, wtf!

But still nice though.

Would be cool if this car would show up at a carshow. maybe Festival of Speed:)

Damn ! He could have stopped when I was there :(

Looks like these were taken at Rowan's house

http://img237.imagevenue.com/loc490/th_43821_2225239079_a67652699f_b_122_490lo.jpg (http://img237.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43821_2225239079_a67652699f_b_122_49 0lo.jpg) http://img194.imagevenue.com/loc337/th_43823_2225251463_2fe9f57700_b_122_337lo.jpg (http://img194.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43823_2225251463_2fe9f57700_b_122_33 7lo.jpg)
http://img144.imagevenue.com/loc980/th_43829_2225239077_f2171210ca_b_122_980lo.jpg (http://img144.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43829_2225239077_f2171210ca_b_122_98 0lo.jpg) http://img237.imagevenue.com/loc221/th_43836_2225239083_0816250e3b_b_122_221lo.jpg (http://img237.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43836_2225239083_0816250e3b_b_122_22 1lo.jpg)
http://img188.imagevenue.com/loc254/th_43837_2225239081_f780737326_b_122_254lo.jpg (http://img188.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43837_2225239081_f780737326_b_122_25 4lo.jpg)

I wonder how many more years it will take until we see some decent shots of the interior in this car? :popcorn:

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^^ not long hopefully...

he should bring his F1 to a show this year:-)