Another unique McLaren F1 breaks cover...

[christophe320d]

Yep the red one that had the ugly wing is back in the US. The proud owner has a company in silicon valley. He also is having a yellow enzo.

Here's a pic a friend of mine took, he works in the same building

[Peloton25]

Nice shot there - Meltzer has quite a collection.

I still don't believe that Mario Andretti ever actually owned this car, or any other McLaren F1.

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[Mclaren240!]

Any pics of the car with an ugly rear wing for us newbies?

[Peloton25]

Here you go, in all it's glory.





Its slightly taller, the wing end plates are larger and it's mounted further forward - over the rear engine cover - than the wings you will find on the GTRs, LMs and HDF kitted F1s. Very odd - I'd love to know the story behind it. It doesn't seem like something McLaren would have come up with given they already have a package of their own.

There are some earlier photos of this car in Japan without this wing attached.

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[alistair_1990]

maybe he bought the wing from an aftermarket shop an wanted the d.i.y. look rather than mclaren doing the job for him, lol

[mini magic]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

I still don't believe that Mario Andretti ever actually owned this car, or any other McLaren F1.

You should

[diabloroadster2]

Originally Posted by christophe320d

Yep the red one that had the ugly wing is back in the US. The proud owner has a company in silicon valley. He also is having a yellow enzo.

Here's a pic a friend of mine took, he works in the same building

that looks like his enzo under the cover next to it.

last time i was home, i drove past the garage. i got to see the lovely rump of the mclaren in the garage i will be home for a couple weeks again on friday. hopefully ill be able to stop by and snap a picture or 2

[MalkaJB]

It's unfortunate that our thread on this car was deleted.

Good thing I saved the entire thread as a text file before it was removed from the site; not to mention a cached version of it through google search!

[Peloton25]

Yeah - I'm not sure who decided that it needed to be removed, but anyone who wants to can still read it if they want -

Cut&Paste this link into your browser:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3VH_C7XJLscJ:www.automotiveforums.c om/t207106.html

I have a copy saved too.

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[TcarR]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

There are some earlier photos of this car in Japan without this wing attached.

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I may be wrong, but weren't the photos of the car minus the ugly wing taken after these shots? I have the shots of the car in japan with the wing marked as 1999 and the shots of it in japn minus the wing marked 2000. Unless there are two red F1s in japan and i've confused them.

[Peloton25]

I don't mark my shots with dates like that, so I'm just drawing from memory. As I recall, the shots of the car without the wing were from an earlier year of that event, but I could look for them again to make sure. You may in fact be correct though.

This was the only red F1 I was aware of in Japan.

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[Mclaren240!]

Thanks for the pics Peloton25 who why do that to the car sound imagen it screws up the aerodynamics as well as making it look just awfull why do it? Guss money cant by you taste or sence.... prehaps fast and the feurious has a lot to answer for here................

that link to the old thread wont come up for me am i doing something wrong?

[Peloton25]

You weren't doing something wrong - sorry. I tweaked the link now and it should work.

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[mayerSCF]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Here you go, in all it's glory.

Its slightly taller, the wing end plates are larger and it's mounted further forward - over the rear engine cover - than the wings you will find on the GTRs, LMs and HDF kitted F1s. Very odd - I'd love to know the story behind it. It doesn't seem like something McLaren would have come up with given they already have a package of their own.

There are some earlier photos of this car in Japan without this wing attached.

>8^)
ER

I saw those pictures awhile back, and I think that was the first time I saw a Mclaren that I didn't like. That tall, gargantuan wing just ruins the looks.