Neew help on 2 McLarens.....

[mini magic]

OK, the 1st one, a mclaren f1 with hi-dwnfc kit, it states on www.thecarexperience.com that this car is a 1996, yet when it was for sale @ www.qv500.com it said it was a 1998, anyone know exactly what year it is, i have it down for chassis #059 but i'm begining to doubt that, anyone know? heres some pics:





2nd: the jet black car that was in motorcars intl. for so long, you know the one with the hi downfce kit also, i kinda have the same prob. i had this car down for chassis #072 which is a 1998, but when looking through my file i noticed on the ad i printed for it it states that it is a 1997, can anyone help on this one also? BTW: does anyone have the rest of the pics of this car at motorcars intl? i seem to have misplaced mine, thanks.

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[mini magic]

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[Peloton25]

I'm fairly confident on both those chassis numbers you have, but I'll have to look at my notes at home to be sure.

I have the pictures of the Black HDF car, so I'll share those as well.

>8^)
ER

[mini magic]

thanks a lot

[gerd]

Steve Will at Motorcars Int. was asked the same question - which car is in the picture. At one time, MI had 069 for sale and MI used this 069 after the car was "customized" when advertising for other F1s. At some point, I think they changed but who knows. Who cares.

[mini magic]

Originally posted by gerd
Steve Will at Motorcars Int. was asked the same question - which car is in the picture. At one time, MI had 069 for sale and MI used this 069 after the car was "customized" when advertising for other F1s. At some point, I think they changed but who knows. Who cares.

i care. also, i thought 069 was only for sale @ fox valley for about a month then was nabbed. 069 was a charcoal grey and this is jet black

[McLaren Mike]

Is Steve Will any relation to Dean Will, who wos the director of Coke. He is an Australian, we are family friends, he has a white McLaren, just wondering. Plus you are the only people on the net with any clue on this perfect car. I read all your posts.

- Mike

PS: What do you guys think, I found this pic on the net.

[McLaren Mike]

[McLaren Mike]

http://www.geocities.com/pyari3103/mclaren/

thats the website for the mclaren "convertible". Any of you AF People knoe anything or anyone that has a McLaren in Australia. I think Linsey Fox and Dean Wills are the only two, please help
rgrds

-Mike

[tvrfreak]

Hmm, I don't think I like it much...it spoils the proportions and makes it look flat and long instead of compact and rounded. Maybe it's just because I am too used to the way the car actually looks.

I don't think it can be made into a convertible too easily because you would be starving the engine of air, and also because those airboxes sit pretty high...if you made the car into a convertible, it would have to have some sort of a high structure in the back to accommodate those airboxes.

You would probably be also compromising the car's structural integrity.

I don't think I have seen pics of a white McLaren before...that would be
pretty unique. Hopefully you someone can post a picture?

Don't know who Steve Will is.

[McLaren Mike]

Hard 2 find pics of the white McLaren(s)
http://membres.lycos.fr/mclarenwallp...s/white-cs.jpg

[Peloton25]

McLaren Mike - That page of thumbnails you posted is from 'jkbon's webpage. He's an active participant here. I have two out of the three white images, but the first one I have inside a different wallpaper (see below).

This shot was posted here before so I'm borrowing the image from that thread.



Here's the version of the desktop wallpaper that I have, and you can copy & paste the link below it into a new browser window to display the 1280x1024 version. Apparently this head on shot comes from an image used for the cover of a book titled "The World of Cars" - by Roy Bacon.



Hi-Res: http://members5.clubphoto.com/_cgi-b...94-d533&trans=

jkbon - if you read this, please post the other two shots of the white car. I sort of dropped the project of sharing all my pics, but will get started on it again soon. Work and life have been keeping me very busy.

mini_magic - Here's the Motorcars Intl shots I promised to post - I should note that even the file name on the photos references the 97 model year, but that doesn't jive with the other info we know about this car:













Here's one more photo of this car when it was displayed at the Blackhawk Museum. The Blackhawk correctly identified this car as a 1998 model when they were displaying it btw.



Also, on the red car with the LM-Kit, I'm still looking for the info I thought I had that identified the chassis number. I'll let you know what I find when I do...

>8^)
ER

[tvrfreak]

Interesting that it has the 97 GTR-spec 20-spoke wheels. The wing seems to be 97 GTR-spec too. Yet the 97-spec GTRs were longtails, so this is obviously a mix-n-match.

Incidentally, an individual in Sweden has two McLarens as well, a roadcar and a GTR. Anyone know any more?

[mini magic]

Originally posted by tvrfreak
Interesting that it has the 97 GTR-spec 20-spoke wheels. The wing seems to be 97 GTR-spec too. Yet the 97-spec GTRs were longtails, so this is obviously a mix-n-match.

Incidentally, an individual in Sweden has two McLarens as well, a roadcar and a GTR. Anyone know any more?

possibly the guy who lives in Stockholm who owns an orange gtr (chassis #11R) and also owns a Red gt1, eb110, dauer 962 and clkgtr. he showed them at a recent auto show in europe

[tvrfreak]

yup, that's him. wow, that means he has three mclarens, because he certainly has a green road car as well! impressive. and the rest of his collection is just as impressive as well! porsche gt1, dauer 962, clk-gtr, etc. etc.