A burgundy Mclaren GT and a LM

[jkbon]

Burgundy GT


LM

[Peloton25]

AMAZING!!!

Those are the first photos I have EVER seen of '58F1GT' and that says a lot as there aren't many McLaren pics that I haven't seen at least once.

Thanks a lot for sharing those - today you are a god.

EDIT: Incidentally, since we were on the subject of wheels in another thread, I'd just like to be the first to point out that the wheel on this F1 GT is simply beautiful.

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[Porsche]

Oh my

I've officially decided I need an LM. Those pictures are just spectacular, the more pictures I see fo the F1, the more I fall in love.

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

Originally posted by Porsche
Oh my

I've officially decided I need an LM. Those pictures are just spectacular, the more pictures I see fo the F1, the more I fall in love.

Ditto.

[Stratoraptor]

i was looking through the old threads and i have decided to bump this one back to the top. im going to share these with everyone i know

this is my first look at 58F1GT. not the prettiest F1 in my opinion, but its an F1 nonetheless (meaning that i wouldnt mind owning it )

i would like to take this oprotunity to request more pics of the F1 GT. only the rarer ones like the owns in the above link. i really dont have that many of it. cone to think of it, i dont think that i have ever seen 54F1GT....

[Peloton25]

Unless someone is hoarding photos I've never seen, I can guarantee that there aren't any shots of the GT that you don't already have.

I don't believe I've ever seen photos of 54F1GT either. Some of the regular photos appear to be of a black car, but 56XPGT is similar in color to the dark green of XP5 and that car often looks black as well. Colin Curwood is the photographer on most of the standard F1 GT shots you've seen btw. He also took the photos of the Clinic Model at the quarry location prior to the F1 Launch Party in 1992. His McLaren F1 photo collection would be second to none I would assume.

I have heard that the two customer F1 GTs are in the hands of people who also own a standard F1 road car an LM. Maybe someone here will know more than that. Anyone seen XOTech lately??

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[Peloton25]

I don't know when or where specifically the photos were taken. I can't even find an email address on that site to contact anyone. Surely they must know more on the origin of these shots.

I do know that the two cars are in the collection of a very wealthy Japanese car enthusiast/collector, but I'm not aware of his name. Just look at some of the surrounding cars though - Daytona Spyder, F40, F50 - quite a nice little row of cars there. This almost looks like some kind of museum more than a garage or car show. I've searched and searched for more photos or info on these two cars and this collection but haven't found anything else.

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[maartenvanthek]

do we have the chassis nr of the LM? for my pics...

[Peloton25]

I have no knowledge of specific LM chassis numbers unfortunately.

It's kind of a bummer, because if we could identify LM1 or LM4 and the photos of it are orange, it would provide proof that the "Driving Ambition" poster is incorrect where it claims that those two cars were finished in 'Black w/graphics'.

See the image of the LM chassis history from that poster below:



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[drewwtms]

Originally posted by Peloton25
I don't believe I've ever seen photos of 54F1GT either. Some of the regular photos appear to be of a black car, but 56XPGT is similar in color to the dark green of XP5 and that car often looks black as well.

See photo below. 54F1GT was painted in black with 10% flake according to classicars.com. Only two other F1s were originally finished in this color making it pretty rare. The other pictures that I have seen are of a green GT and the dark burgundy GT (which is 58F1GT). The black GT below is as black as black can get. It's possible that the green GT (from the McLaren shop tour photos) is the prototype 56XPGT and it was painted. Classicars.com lists it as originally in primer so we have no color to start with.

Originally posted by Peloton25
Colin Curwood is the photographer on most of the standard F1 GT shots you've seen btw. His McLaren F1 photo collection would be second to none I would assume.

This would be amazing! I think someone should get a party together and we can all fly to England to see it!



- D. Drew Ingram

[Peloton25]

Like I said in my previous post - most of the photos of 56XPGT make it appear black, but the car is really green. I can almost guarantee you that the car in that photo is the prototype and not the black customer car. I mean it's obvious what the car would look like in black because of this, but I still don't believe there are any photos circulating of the black GT.

Originally posted by drewwtms
It's possible that the green GT (from the McLaren shop tour photos) is the prototype 56XPGT and it was painted. Classicars.com lists it as originally in primer so we have no color to start with.

The "Driving Ambition" poster and QV500.com list it as "Silverstone Green" however QV500 also identifies the GT photo they have posted as '54F1GT' which would be incorrect, as it is one of Colin Curwood's photos and I know that his shoot was done using '56XPGT'.

My photo collection of F1 GT's barely numbers 30 images total - and a few of those are even duplicates. There's just not a lot out there. I have the name of someone who owns an official F1 GT brochure released by McLaren Cars - I have emailed him before about it. I think I should ask him to sell it to me so I can get some scans from it.

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Here's the Colin Curwood F1 GT photo I would most like to have a framed copy of on my wall:

[scoob]

There are a couple of other not so good photos of the Burgundy F1 GT on that website which don't appear on the main page. Check out http://www.tu5j4.com/%20MCLARENF1/F1GT_03.JPG and http://www.tu5j4.com/%20MCLARENF1/F1GT_04.JPG

[DiabloFan]

I have great news. Now you can all be happy. I know where these two cars are located and who is the owner. I even have more pictures. But I also want some help from you. For example, mini magic could post his pictures of 011 and I also want to see some more pictures. If you want to help me to get some more pictures to my collection, just make post and I write all informations here.
Thanks for reading.
Happy birthday to mini magic. I am three years older, if you want to know.

[Peloton25]

You know who owns the Burgundy GT and the LM? And you have more photos?

Cool - I wish I had some unique stuff to share with you. Hopefully mini magic will come through for the team.

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[mini magic]

i don't need new pix of the gt, i don't like it and the lm i can wait for new pix, my love is the reg. road car. hehe, you won't get the pix out of me that easily

thanks for the b day greeting btw