07R – Interim Colours

[murraydeschot]

Originally Posted by cabrio92

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]

#07R is near Basingstoke at Oakfields

[Peloton25]

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]

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]

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

>8^)
ER

[cabrio92]

Well,

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

Phil

[hurstg01]

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

[hurstg01]

Here is the 16 LK shot alongside its current plate

[F1GTRUeno]

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

[Peloton25]

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]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

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]

And what a fun email exchange it has been.

>8^)
ER

[F1GTRUeno]

That isn't fair

[murraydeschot]

Originally Posted by F1GTRUeno

That isn't fair

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

[Peloton25]

Murray, you forgot to mention the part.

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

>8^)
ER