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Originally Posted by Peloton25
The great book doesn't make it completely clear what exactly the Clinic Model is made from. I suspect that most of it was hand laid fiberglass as that would be the most cost effective for a mockup like that. It's definitely not a complete carbon fiber chassis waiting to accept a drivetrain. That honor went to XP1. Neither is it made from cheap plastic panels and knock-off parts. I'd say it falls somewhere in between those two categories from what I can gather.
Remember the quote from Driving Ambition: "with the exception of the engine bay, asthetically complete in every respect both inside and out"
A lot of what you see were probably early sourced prototypes of the production bits. Some things were obviously still in the 'yet to be determined' phase, or at least had not reached final sign off.
BTW: I just figured out where I got the idea the Clinic Model had been painted blue. 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." The book came bundled with the March 2nd, 1994 issue of AutoCar.
>8^)
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see my reply here (
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul....php?p=3569846) regarding the blue of the clinic model
