07R – Interim Colours - Car Forums and Automotive Chat

murraydeschot

01-30-2010, 05:57 AM

I posted here – ages ago! – several photos of 07R in it’s
Silver/Papaya duo-colour scheme, taken at Knockhill Circuit, Scotland
circa August 1998, just after Larry Kinch bought it from ‘someone
named’ Paul Picard(?) in France – or it could have been, thinking
about it – from Paul Ricard (circuit) in France One passing comment
from Larry on the ‘phone, 12 years back, is a bit of a dim and distant
memory, after all!

Does anyone have validation of the previous owners of 07R prior to
Larry? Also, are there any other photos of the car in it’s
Silver/Papaya colours, prior to it’s dispatch for a Papaya paint job
at Woking?

MdS.

hurstg01

01-30-2010, 08:09 AM

I think most, if not all, of my shots in my folder came from you - I'll host what I've got (I think 1 or 2 may have crept in that are actually #01R...)

hurstg01

01-30-2010, 08:19 AM

hurstg01

01-30-2010, 08:21 AM

They were, for me, the benchmark set of photos that A) made me like the Mclaren GTR and B) made me want to photo them

murraydeschot

01-30-2010, 08:45 AM

murraydeschot

01-30-2010, 08:53 AM

I'll try and mail my former model maker in Scotland, Mark and see if he still has any photos he took of the car that day too, as he was commissioned to convert a 1.43rd Minichamps GTR to the Larry-spec car. If I get a result, I'll host and post.

M

Sami Aaltonen

01-30-2010, 09:23 AM

This is very intersting Thread!
Thank you Greg again hosting those images, totally new for me.:smile:

DMFerrari

01-30-2010, 11:08 AM

Same car right?

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h245/adm06/Mclaren/88467_p61101027pn_122_857lo.jpg

hurstg01

01-30-2010, 11:40 AM

Those are all of 07R at Knockhill, and me in the dodgy striped trousers too! ;)

The '90's were a fashion disaster :p

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6139/007r12.th.jpg (http://img402.imageshack.us/i/007r12.jpg/)

Same car right?

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h245/adm06/Mclaren/88467_p61101027pn_122_857lo.jpg

Sure is :)

DocGTR

01-30-2010, 12:31 PM

Sure is :)

Yep, 07R in action at Suzuka 1995 Pokka 1000km race, where it sadly DNF'd.

F1GTRUeno

01-30-2010, 12:40 PM

The Jacadi livery really is very nice.

hurstg01

01-30-2010, 12:43 PM

When I was conversing with Flemke over the colouring of his F1, around the time the videos of #040 and #13R were being driven near Virginia Waters, I commented which F1 GTR he would like. I can't remember his answer, but I can remember I replied stating were I in that position I wanted #07R if #01R wasnt available :)

EDIT - and it was the first 1/43 I bought too ;)

Sami Aaltonen

01-30-2010, 01:48 PM

Yep, the Jacadi from 1995 Le Mans 1/43 is one of my targets on the future.... :jerking: Great livery.

DMFerrari

01-30-2010, 04:30 PM

EDIT - and it was the first 1/43 I bought too ;)

That's funny its was the first one I bought as well.
Waaaaaay back when they first came out, and it was also my first 1:43.

cabrio92

03-23-2010, 03:36 PM

Interesting thread :)

It is stated the car was delivered in France in Giroix team I supposed. What about Paul Ricard name in this story ?
Larry Kinch made the conversion, right ? Lanzante or factory in 2000/2001 ?

Where is #07R now ?

Phil

murraydeschot

03-24-2010, 04:55 AM

Interesting thread :)

It is stated the car was delivered in France in Giroix team I supposed. What about Paul Ricard name in this story ?
Larry Kinch made the conversion, right ? Lanzante or factory in 2000/2001 ?

Where is #07R now ?

Phil

Phil,

If I recall correctly, Larry shipped the car in from France circa June or July 1998. He said to me it needed exhausts for road-legality at a cost of ... 15,000 GBP. I only saw/was in the car once in August 1998 at Knockhill. Think he commissioned McLaren at a later stage to respray it completely in Historic Orange. The car was likely to sit in his 'toy box' amidst the stellar-provenance Jaguars and Ferraris until he grew bored of it and sold it on ...

I never heard any reports from the Aberdeen area that it was ever seen on the roads there. But his home to then-office wasn't too far and I saw him a couple of times having taken his Japanese-import XJR15 to work.

MdS

hurstg01

03-24-2010, 05:12 AM

#07R is near Basingstoke at Oakfields

Peloton25

03-24-2010, 05:24 AM

McLaren recevied the car in Feb 2000 after a minor front end accident and proceeded with a fairly intensive overhaul of the car, conversion to UK SVA regulations, and that's also when the respray to full Papaya was completed. I believe the car was ready after repairs, updates and respray in October of that year.

>8^)
ER

cabrio92

03-24-2010, 05:28 AM

Thanks you two :)

XJR15 !!!

So, the car is actually in UK but the plate doesn't work in DVLA. Can you say when Larry Kinch sold the car ? After or before 2003 ?

Phil

Peloton25

03-24-2010, 05:37 AM

When Larry owned it the car wore UK plate '16 LK'. He sold the car in July 2002.

>8^)
ER

cabrio92

03-24-2010, 06:17 AM

Well,

thank you very much Erik. The actual plate doesn't work while DVLA inquiry like MAC 1P, strange.

Phil

hurstg01

03-24-2010, 06:27 AM

I have a pic somewhere of it in Papaya with LK16 on its number plate; I'll try to find it tonight

hurstg01

03-24-2010, 02:01 PM

Here is the 16 LK shot alongside its current plate

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7258/007rtryingtobeanlm13.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/i/007rtryingtobeanlm13.jpg/)

F1GTRUeno

03-24-2010, 07:51 PM

What's going on with it being at Oakfields then?

Peloton25

03-24-2010, 08:44 PM

I have heard its owned by Ian Donaldson and he doesn't have an interest in selling it right now. May or may not be true, but it has been there quite a while in their showroom.

>8^)
ER

murraydeschot

03-25-2010, 09:23 AM

I have heard its owned by Ian Donaldson and he doesn't have an interest in selling it right now. May or may not be true, but it has been there quite a while in their showroom.

>8^)
ER

Erik, you've got mail!

Peloton25

03-25-2010, 10:08 AM

And what a fun email exchange it has been. :grinyes:

>8^)
ER

F1GTRUeno

03-25-2010, 11:19 AM

That isn't fair :D

murraydeschot

03-25-2010, 01:02 PM

That isn't fair :D

Confusion - on my behalf - who Ian Donaldson is. There's a Scottish guy named Ian Donaldson who raced Lamborghinis there. That's all. :)

Peloton25

03-25-2010, 04:55 PM

Murray, you forgot to mention the :smokin: part. ;)

Anyway, nobody missed anything. There's two guys with that same name. One is successful, the other one... not so much. :grinno:

>8^)
ER

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