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Originally Posted by Peloton25
You have at least one shot of #001 - the shot of the first and last F1s from Driving Ambition apparently depicts #001 & #075.
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Some believe that these two shots taken at the Nice Airport in 1999 could be chassis #001.
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~huizinga/photoscenic.html
The one clue that points to this is that this F1 wears the early style side mirrors borrowed from the Citroen CX.
As a point of reference, Mr Selldorff's chassis #007 wears the updated side mirrors borrowed from the VW Corrado and always has in every photo that I have seen of it. That tells me the running change made to the side mirrors for the F1 must have occurred prior to that point in production.
There were only three silver F1s built before #007 - they are XP3, #001 & #006. We know it's not XP3 because of the marker lights in the front, so that just leaves the other two as possibilites which were both painted Magnesium silver. It's anyone's guess really.
Side note: Chassis' #006 and #010 along with #033 all make up my short list of possible chassis numbers for the F1 that was destroyed by Bernd Pischetsrieder. Looking at photos of the car he wrecked, it had the Corrado mirrors fitted to it. I don't think that really tells us anything for this discussion, but when we do find out which car that was maybe it will help in the debate over these two airport photos.
>8^)
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