Silver high-mirrored F1 spotted in London

[WaZzZuPpP]

Now thats interesting



Did Ralph Lauren sold one of his road cars?

[Peloton25]

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

There are supposed to be five of these high-mirrored F1s according to a couple of good sources (and this thread), so maybe this is the one car we haven't yet been able to identify?

Here are some images I put together of the other four.

#040


#055


#071


#074


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ER

[hurstg01]

This one must be the final high mirrored car yet to be identified, and must be the one the owner who contacts me from time to time commented on recently.....

[Peloton25]

Now, where have we seen that plate before?





And if this plate is real, XP1 LM carried it briefly too:




From the DVLA lookup:

The vehicle details for F1 MCL are:

Date of Liability 01 10 2009
Date of First Registration 01 09 1999
Year of Manufacture 1999 <-- Really now?
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 6064CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour SILVER
Vehicle Type Approval null


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ER

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by WaZzZuPpP

Now thats interesting



Did Ralph Lauren sold one of his road cars?

Is it me, or is there.

Something missing in the second pic!!

"Mirror mirror on the wall"

[Peloton25]

I think it's one of those optical illusions. The high mirrors sit lower and closer to the body than they might seem. Maybe we should call them medium mirrors.

I cycled through all my high-mirrored F1 shots looking for something similar, and found this one of Flemke's from less of an angle, but you can see the right side mirror is only barely visible. Move the camera another inch to the left and you'd lose it completely.



Also, I'd expect to see a portion of the second mirror in these two shots of #071, but it is also "missing".





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ER

[Le Man]

I was thinking more like this pic,



OK its further away, but its also showing more of the right hand side of the car and lower down. Maybe I,m a sceptic, but now the car is out and about, more pics will appear.

I mentioned before about the silver 99 car a while back, which I think belongs to Ron Dennis. He is known to own several, modified F1,s in his personal car collection.

[hurstg01]

Remember when the Testarossa's had one wing mirror?





I can see the 2nd mirror in the front-on shot. Hopefully we'll see more of this car now it's out and about

[microsup]

Its also interesting to see that this car F1 MCL has had no previous owners: -

Manufacturer: MCLAREN Colour: Silver
Engine Size (cc): 6064
Type: Sports/Convertible


Model Year (YYYY): 19990000
Date of 1st Registration (DD/MM/YYYY): 19990901
Vehicle Registration Mark: ***** Get the Vehicle Status Report
Number of Previous Owners: 0

Fuel: Petrol

[mini magic]

Hopefully it'll be floating around next week

[mclarenman]

found a youtube vid of the unkown f1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOraUAdFWPw


EDIT: Moved your post in here to keep it with the rest of the discussion.

[Le Man]

I,m pleased the vid has proved its a high mirror spec car.

Strange how some images can play tricks on the mind, or perhaps I should look like this instead of

Now its made me really curious, to know its chassis #

[Peloton25]

I wholeheartedly encourage that curiosity.

I have a couple of guesses, but two things seem certain. This is a 1996 or earlier car - surely that helps narrow it down. Of the five high mirrored F1s, it was one of two that had the mirrors added after production in a retrofit scenario.

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ER

[andybee]

I dont know the chassis, but I remember when the Z1 mirrors were originally mocked up, it was being mocked up on a Silver chassis. No idea if the mirror ended up on that particular F1.

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Now, where have we seen that plate before?





And if this plate is real, XP1 LM carried it briefly too:




From the DVLA lookup:

The vehicle details for F1 MCL are:

Date of Liability 01 10 2009
Date of First Registration 01 09 1999
Year of Manufacture 1999 <-- Really now?
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 6064CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour SILVER
Vehicle Type Approval null


>8^)
ER

I have allways wondered, was those XP1 LM register plate just "show" plate or was it really registered before those media shots about LM were taken?

Those LM shots in the woods, open door and sort of images which were seen right after the LM lounch (if I remember right), were those some kind of Media shots, pictures for the media to print their magazines?