The Clinic Model Thread

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Le Man

06-02-2008, 04:19 PM

At last I have finally got my scanner back in action. Its been on the "jobs to do" list for far to long. Got to get to grips, with using it again. Let me know if the scans are OK.

Over the next few weeks I shall post some early articles and pics which feature the clinic model. If anyone else has some content to add, please do.

Here are three pics to get things going.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1258/clinic1jx2.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic1jx2.jpg) http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/5880/clinic2as1.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic2as1.jpg) (both of these are high res)

An early factory pic.
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8928/clinic4um4.th.jpg (http://img386.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic4um4.jpg)

Please enjoy.

Peloton25

06-02-2008, 11:47 PM

hurstg01

06-03-2008, 01:02 AM

Great idea Le Man; can't wait for the early articles as I wasn't as 'in' to the Mclaren back then as I am now. :cheers:

Le Man

06-03-2008, 05:12 AM

Thanks guys,

Could not work out why Imageshack did not accept the pic size last night. So here they are again, plus the size bar.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8082/clinic1on1.th.jpg (http://img210.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic1on1.jpg) http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5913/clinic2tz9.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic2tz9.jpg)

Thats better :cwm27:

Couple more pics,

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/1336/clinic5xl4.th.jpg (http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic5xl4.jpg) http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/9689/clinic6fr0.th.jpg (http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clinic6fr0.jpg)

Le Man

06-03-2008, 01:29 PM

This article is from World Sports Cars mag, July 92.

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5346/wsc1zb6.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc1zb6.jpg) http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9986/wsc2gl3.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc2gl3.jpg) http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3884/wsc3mo3.th.jpg (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc3mo3.jpg) http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2837/wsc4lk9.th.jpg (http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc4lk9.jpg)............http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7008/wsc5kt4.th.jpg (http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc5kt4.jpg).......http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5552/wscjuly92oz2.th.jpg (http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wscjuly92oz2.jpg)

Please enjoy.

Le Man

06-04-2008, 02:39 PM

hurstg01

06-04-2008, 03:03 PM

The scans must be OK
Best understatement of the year so far:iceslolan
I am still searching for a shot of it painted blue which may or may not have actually occurred. As you may recall:
Inside the AutoCar "McLaren's Road Car" book it mentions the car as the 'Studio Model' and says "Originally finished in bright silver ("Magnesium"), it's since been painted red, blue and is currently yellow."
>8^)
ER
Erik, not sure if the clinic model was ever painted blue. Or at least, I have not seen any evidence of this. But it would be great to be proven wrong, I just love the F1 in blue.
The hunt is on :runaround:

Peloton25

06-04-2008, 10:35 PM

BRX880

06-05-2008, 02:51 AM

This article is from World Sports Cars mag, July 92.

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5346/wsc1zb6.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc1zb6.jpg) http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9986/wsc2gl3.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc2gl3.jpg) http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3884/wsc3mo3.th.jpg (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc3mo3.jpg) http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2837/wsc4lk9.th.jpg (http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc4lk9.jpg)............http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7008/wsc5kt4.th.jpg (http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wsc5kt4.jpg)

Please enjoy.
Great scans!
Could it be, that there are some pages missing?
7...10-13 -> 8 & 9?

:)

BRX880

06-05-2008, 02:52 AM

It's really a pity that the production F1 wasn't featured with those high mirrors as well as those round lights beside the front air intakes... :(

Peloton25

06-05-2008, 03:05 AM

Thanks for the cover shots LeMan - I believe that I do have that issue of Performance Car Magazine and I recall seeing the other on Ebay once, but didn't end up picking it up. I shall keep watch for it as I do like owning the hard copies too.

>8^)
ER

Peloton25

06-05-2008, 11:05 PM

roger_ph

06-06-2008, 12:44 AM

Although a repost (but this time a higher resolution :smile: ), here are the pics I took of that car back in 1993:

http://img169.imagevenue.com/loc812/th_31060_P1020640_122_812lo.JPG (http://img169.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=31060_P1020640_122_812lo.JPG) http://img170.imagevenue.com/loc1181/th_31062_P1020641_122_1181lo.JPG (http://img170.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=31062_P1020641_122_1181lo.JPG) http://img24.imagevenue.com/loc634/th_31064_P1020642_122_634lo.JPG (http://img24.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=31064_P1020642_122_634lo.JPG)

Roger

Le Man

06-07-2008, 03:49 PM

Great scans!
Could it be, that there are some pages missing?
7...10-13 -> 8 & 9?

:)

No,...... not unless you would like to see a two page Nissan 300ZX advert :cwm27:

Le Man

06-10-2008, 12:51 PM

hurstg01

06-10-2008, 01:34 PM

:cheers: Le Man, great shot!

Le Man

06-10-2008, 04:51 PM

Gordon at the pumps!!

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5420/to1tc2.th.jpg (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=to1tc2.jpg)(clickable)

This image was "printed" at thumbnail size in Autocar and I have enlarged it somewhat, sorry about the quality.

Thanks Greg,

I think the shot above was done for a Shell promotion.

You better have a couple more then!!

These have been clipped from Autosport magazine.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2199/to4dg6.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=to4dg6.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6997/to2jb1.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=to2jb1.jpg)

This one, is for our very good friend Roger. :smile:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1461/to3zn4.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=to3zn4.jpg)

Peloton25

06-10-2008, 05:07 PM

I think the shot above was done for a Shell promotion.

You are correct - a Shell commercial - there's a small comment about this in "Driving Ambition". I made a version of this shot from the tiny thumbnail found in DA once - I'll have to see how it compares when I get home.

Pretty funny though - putting petrol in a car that has no engine. :lol2:

>8^)
ER

Peloton25

06-10-2008, 08:02 PM

Here's (my) version of the gas pump image - you get reasonable results enlarging it in Photoshop, but it's not much better than the one Le Man shared.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20B/1680136b.jpg

>8^)
ER

Le Man

06-11-2008, 01:49 PM

svxit

06-13-2008, 07:56 PM

From "The Supercar: An Evolution of Speed." This is well worth picking up, for those [one or two] who don't yet have it.

[/URL][URL="http://img124.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04647_SuperCars1_122_1017lo.jpg";]http://img124.imagevenue.com/loc1017/th_04647_SuperCars1_122_1017lo.jpg (http://img124.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04647_SuperCars1_122_1017lo.jpg)

http://img185.imagevenue.com/loc443/th_04656_SuperCars2_122_443lo.jpg (http://img185.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04656_SuperCars2_122_443lo.jpg)

Le Man

06-21-2008, 12:54 PM

Couple more.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5259/as1tk8.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=as1tk8.jpg) http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/6434/as2cn7.th.jpg (http://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=as2cn7.jpg)..................http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8792/acapi3.th.jpg (http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=acapi3.jpg) http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7470/acbea1.th.jpg (http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=acbea1.jpg)

hurstg01

06-21-2008, 01:13 PM

:thumbsup:

Peloton25

11-01-2008, 08:33 PM

Le Man

11-03-2008, 08:57 AM

Great find Erik, :thumbsup:

Anymore, where this one came from?

Peloton25

11-03-2008, 09:54 AM

Nope - it came from scans someone sent me of a French magazine's reprint of the original AutoCar F1 road test. There's one other new photo in this version of the article showing them fixing the test equipment to XP4 with Gordon Murray looking on that I'll put up here somewhere soon.

>8^)
ER

ExoticSpotting

12-06-2008, 01:10 PM

I feel stupid asking this, what exactly is the clinic model? I realize that it is a very early F1, but what exactly is it? Was it a development car to test design features that didn't make it to the production car? Is there any connection between 'clinic' and 'Uneo Clinic'?

Peloton25

12-07-2008, 01:52 AM

Think of the Clinic Model as a full scale, non-functional, static model of the F1. Rather than retype it all, you will find an expanded version of that answer in this thread:

Clinic Model - Singapore Intl Motor Show in 1992 (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=473711)

Also there is no relation between "Ueno Clinic" and the "Clinic Model" - just a coincidence in the naming.

>8^)
ER

roger_ph

12-08-2008, 03:49 AM

This one, is for our very good friend Roger. :smile:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1461/to3zn4.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=to3zn4.jpg)[/quote]

Very nice, Martin - thank you :smile:

ExoticSpotting

12-08-2008, 06:27 PM

ExoticSpotting

12-13-2008, 12:03 PM

I was looking through my dismal collection of automotive literature trying to find something to contribute to the forum, and I noticed that in 'The Automobile' was a brief summary of the McLaren F1. The details are nothing knew but thee photos were kind of strange.

The photos appear to show the Clinic Model when it was wearing it's low mirrors, but it was wearing a paint color that seems to be a dark-maroonish red. I thought maybe it was the car as it appeared in orange, and the publisher messed up during the printing, but the only photos i've seen of the car in orange are from when it was fitted with the high mirrors.

I'm almost positive it is the clinic model...
-foglights
-vents behind the headlights
.. but maybe it's a different car, or the photos were photoshopped (can't find a reason why they would do that). Does anybody know what it might be?

hurstg01

12-13-2008, 01:40 PM

ExoticSpotting

12-13-2008, 05:28 PM

Thanks for the help, I guess I didn't look long enough.

Sami Aaltonen

12-23-2008, 12:11 AM

Okey, so this is the "Clinic Model" which I have to ask at the new Thread. Sorry not to find this Thread before I asked it.

But subject cleared very well now, I expected that it might be something "first show / studio model" thing but I wasn't sure so have to check this.

These Clinic Models, how many they procused these? Here is red ones and silver ones, so how many were made?
Is there any left of these?

Thanks for pics and information! :cool:

Peloton25

12-23-2008, 01:37 AM

Sami Aaltonen

12-23-2008, 05:53 AM

Just one was made, but it ended up getting painted a few different colors through it's useful life. We know of silver, the burgundy, yellow and perhaps blue at one point. Unfortunately, no one has seen the Clinic Model for many years. One would suspect that perhaps McLaren have it stored somewhere, or at least I would hope that they do. Hardly the sort of thing I would scrap. :headshake

No harm on the other thread. When things get repeated, I just make sure there is a link to the older postings/thread on the topic and then close them up so we can try to keep similar discussions all in one place. :)

>8^)
ER
OK. So they painted it serval different colors. That explains a lot!
I think they have stored it somewhere. It's not McLaren's way to operate lost history things. So let's hope that they have stored it.

Yep...believe or not; I checked allmoust all of the pages of these F1 Threads............:popcorn:
But didn't remembered that Clinik Model topik, maybe because didn't knew what it was. :(

hurstg01

02-21-2010, 06:14 AM

It's been a while, but here is another shot of the Clinic Model -

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4373853387_32c28209ca_b.jpg

Courtesy of brit_robin off flickr, possibly taken at the NEC show in '94 (?)

Peloton25

02-21-2010, 08:37 AM

Nice detail for that era - must have had a good camera.

Once again though - who takes just one photo of a McLaren F1? :lol2:

>8^)
ER

Peloton25

02-22-2010, 07:46 PM

What do you know, he did take two. :smile:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4377165315_bf8af8f3d0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brit_robin/4377165315/)

>8^)
ER

Peloton25

02-23-2010, 01:46 AM

Okay - make that three. The last one being the best so far IMO. :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4380468967_b9b3fd4752_b.jpg

>8^)
ER

hurstg01

02-24-2010, 12:22 PM

4 ;)

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8126/4384055720d1b14c3a2cb.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/i/4384055720d1b14c3a2cb.jpg/)

Peloton25

03-02-2010, 02:02 AM

I created this from a less-than-ideal source. Thought the finished product was good enough to share. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20I/mclaren-2264-92.jpg

>8^)
ER

Peloton25

03-21-2010, 05:14 AM

hurstg01

03-21-2010, 07:46 AM

Why would they crush it? Makes more sense to keep it (?)

Peloton25

03-21-2010, 07:52 AM

I agree - or donate it somewhere for display.

Keep in mind, it hasn't been seen in ~15 years. :dunno:

>8^)
ER

DocGTR

03-21-2010, 10:26 AM

I agree - or donate it somewhere for display.

Keep in mind, it hasn't been seen in ~15 years. :dunno:

>8^)
ER

It took quite a while before they showed 14R in the book, so I wouldn't be a surprised if someday this would pop up again. I can't see any reason to crush it, even using it for spares on applicable parts would be insane as it is more worth to keep it in a single piece. If not McLaren itself, maybe some museum of "contemporary automobile art" could bring it back to public.

Peloton25

03-21-2010, 03:02 PM

They may have done something similar to what happened with the 'Heavenly Twins' where the parts with any kind of value were removed and saved, then the chassis/body was the portion that was scrapped.

Keep in mind (and you probably know this), in the case of the Clinic Model it was not fully production representative, wasn't an actual F1 chassis under the skin, and never had a real working drivetrain fitted to it. I could imagine McLaren determining they had no further use for it and sending it off. Anyway, for now it remains a rumor I guess. If it reappears again I'll be as thrilled as anyone. :)

>8^)
ER

DocGTR

03-21-2010, 04:32 PM

And it's not only Albert & Edward they scrapped but also XP2 after its duties were done. So it is the sad possibility for the Clinic Model too. Its value for McLaren would be quite low I guess as they have the XP5 for the showcase purposes and in that the Clinic Model would be merely a room filler as it's not a real F1. But it would be still valuable for some automotive related museums, or maybe for a private collector too.

carbuilder2002

03-21-2010, 05:29 PM

Having worked on prototypes many times in my working life it is a sad fact of life that usually once a rototype has served its purpose its just taking up valuable and expensive space. If this fate has befallen the Clinc Model it's a hard one to call, on one hand it is a significant piece of Mclaren Cars history, on the other it was superceeded by the full functioning prototypes. Guess we will have to wait and see.

Peloton25

04-26-2010, 05:06 AM

BRX880

04-26-2010, 08:03 AM

From SCF:
http://img156.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=69004_058_016_122_168lo.jpg

Peloton25

05-28-2010, 06:50 AM

I'm not certain how many realize the significance of this date in history for the F1 project, but I thought I would share a little something I have been working on to celebrate the occasion.

Today, May 28th, is the 18th anniverary of the unveiling party in Monaco for the McLaren F1 (featuring the Clinic Model) and the day the world was officially let in on the secret that was the McLaren F1. :thumbsup:

I've always liked the overhead shot of the car and recently received a high res scan which I have worked to clean up the detail on and present here on this anniversary.

In the face of some fantastic high res shots of F1s at the MTC for another anniversary it probably looks a bit lack-luster, I know. Still I hope everyone here finds reason to enjoy it. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1%20J/Clinic_Overhead_1000.jpg

If you'd like the image at double the resolution above (2000x1400) you can download it via this link (http://img717.imageshack.us/i/clinicoverhead2000.jpg/).

>8^)
ER

Le Man

05-29-2010, 01:48 PM

^^^^^ Very nice :smokin:

Now, where have I seen that pic before :wink:.

Even just looking at this plan view, you can see lots of little changes that were made to the car, by the time it reached its final production version.

McF1

03-23-2011, 05:23 AM

There aren't too many photos of the Clinic Model in circulation wearing it's yellow paint so it was cool to get this new (old) one:

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

>8^)
ER

Yes, I confirm that this picture comes from the french magazine Auto Hebdo which I have preciously kept! Unfortunately I am currently living in China and all my McLaren related books and magazines are in France!

cabrio92

03-24-2011, 03:05 AM

Hello,

Do you notic a black Ultima in a article on the MP4-12C ? Could it be Albert or Edward ?

McF1 > Quite interesting :) tell us when you go back in France :)

Phil

hurstg01

03-24-2011, 03:27 AM

Phil

It's a new 'mule' for the MP4-12c; Albert & Edward are long gone [but not forgotten ;)]

It was good to see they used Ultima again in the early stages of a Mclaren road car development :)

cabrio92

03-24-2011, 03:52 AM

thank you Greg ;) I agree, it's cool to use Ultima.

Phil

hurstg01

07-23-2011, 04:08 AM

Peloton25

12-19-2011, 08:15 PM

Another odd appearance of the Clinic Model:

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2010/2/1/fred-finn-pic-swns-959635806.jpg

Having clocked up 15 million miles, Fred Finn holds the official world record for most miles travelled by a passenger

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2010/11/26/having-clocked-up-15-million-miles-fred-finn-holds-the-official-world-record-for-most-miles-travelled-by-a-passenger-115875-22741262/#ixzz1h2MQ57KI

No mention of the McLaren or why he's pictured with it. The perspective is definitely making the F1 look like a tiny car.

The guy who forwarded me the link stated this photo would have definitely been taken in the early 1990s. He thought Fred might have been an owner but I've certainly never heard the name.

>8^)
ER

cabrio92

12-20-2011, 04:39 AM

Concorde & F1 : two dream machines...

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