The McLaren F1 Picture Request Thread

[LMMike]

Thanks Patrick for that picture, good one, glad to have it.

As for the test car bonnet, I'm amazed it slip past me, I wonder if ebay sometimes fails to bring every item up when searching because I look in the UK enough not to miss an item when it comes up, strange and dissapointing.

[hurstg01]

Originally Posted by PatrickT82

I believe I took that pic where the British guy holds the gold part, was in Paris few years ago:-)

Retromobile? see post #23

[astonmartindbs001]

Hey, sorry I wasn't able to help with this one, but it's the first time I've seen such pics of the F1's gold foil-lined hood sections separated from the car. They're fantastic!

[Sami Aaltonen]

Hmm found this from Finish Car forum; Over Drive Forum.

So we decided to leave at 7:30am to get a good start.

On the way there we were followed by an orange sports car which when it overtook I saw was a McLaren F1 LM (only 6 of these were made).

It disappeared but a few miles later we caught it up as it was slowing and turning off the road. So we followed it into a ranch. As we both stopped, a guy jumped out and asked us to leave but we told him it was rare to see a car like this, even in the UK and as we were from the UK and that I had a friend with an F1 could we have a chat. When he heard that I knew someone in Europe with one the owner stepped out of the car and started chatting. It was Ralph Lauren. We had a great chat and I told him that I had worked on some of his cars in the UK. He was very interested in our trip and said that his wife would never let him take 5 months off work!

He showed us some of his cars, another McLaren F1, a Porsche GT, Ferrari F40, Ferrari Daytona Spyder, a RUF Porsche and a matt black VW Camper!



HERE is the whole story!

[astonmartindbs001]

Lol, I've seen this before. And, ahem, commented on it.

[Peloton25]

Originally Posted by Sami Aaltonen

Hmm found this from Finish Car forum; Over Drive Forum.

Sorry Sami - you are a little late on this discovery.

Recap of the American F1 fleet - Post #80

Thanks though.

>8^)
ER

[Sami Aaltonen]

OK just in case I added it here, if someone haven't seen example that brilliant interior image of LM.
For me this was a new case so sorry about repost.

[LMMike]

Fantastic pics of the GTR, thanks for sharing them. Cool story about the LM.

[astonmartindbs001]

I just found these uber-high-res images of F1 GTR #010R while trawling through Flickr, and they're definitely desktop-worthy in my opinion. I hope they can be considered new to at least some of you.














My favourite one is the third motion shot. Oh yes, and happy Chinese New Year to everyone who's celebrating it around the world.

[Sami Aaltonen]

Thank You!

[Peloton25]

New 'old' photo of XP1 LM:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/purbs/4...7617747140782/

>8^)
ER

[hurstg01]

Saw that whilst surfing / working at work - it's a bigger picture than the one I currently had

[FatPenguin]

Am wondering if anyone has this press pic of XPLM (?) in extra-high res, or a similar pic (GTR, F1 HDK) in highres? Am working on a F1 vector project and the current pic of 1024x768 is pitifully inadequate with regards to finer details...



Many thanks to all!

[Peloton25]

McLaren have this version available from their new website. Not significantly larger, but certainly more clear in the detail department:

http://static.mclarenautomotive.com/...ods(large).jpg

That's the best version I've ever seen of the shot.

>8^)
ER

[DocGTR]

Originally Posted by FatPenguin

Am wondering if anyone has this press pic of XPLM (?) in extra-high res, or a similar pic (GTR, F1 HDK) in highres? Am working on a F1 vector project and the current pic of 1024x768 is pitifully inadequate with regards to finer details...

Is there something particular in that picture or wouldn't the other images of XP1LM or other LMs be of any help? What are the details you're looking for?

There are lots of other images of XP1LM and LM3 floating around and recently Martin put up a lot of XP1LM images available for download; links are here: http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...=598631&page=2

I don't know if the older images of LM3 are still available in hi-res, but at least I downloaded most of them few years back as Frank still had it, so if needed I could try to put some of them somewhere for download. All of them would require more than 250 MB space - too much to handle at once.