RE: 1,200bhp for sale!
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They make a really horible road going car, not my idea of fun anyway. 
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
johnfelstead said:
They make a really horible road going car, not my idea of fun anyway.
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
As I understand it the road car was tested on the UK motorways around the M40!
Now that I would like to see (and hear and feel)
markmullen said:
johnfelstead said:
They make a really horible road going car, not my idea of fun anyway.
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
Bruce McLaren did build himself a road car based on his M6 CanAm car though, called the M6GT. There were plans to build this into a series of road supercars, but that came to nothing sadly when bruce was killed testing the M8D at Goodwood. 3 M6GT's were built although only bruces car was built by McLaren, the other two were built by Trojon, which was the normal practice back then where McLaren would build the works CanAm cars and Trojon would build the customer spec cars under licence.
As I understand it the road car was tested on the UK motorways around the M40!
Now that I would like to see (and hear and feel)
Somehow I don't think the M40 was built then.....
The March 707/717 - now that's a beasty. Running 8.8 now is it? When I last met it, the engine was a puny 8.2, and the dyno sheet said 997bhp.... Chris Chiles was piloting it (closest thing to flying without leaving the ground), and on a test day - Silverstone Intl circuit, it was 4-5 seconds a lap faster than the McLaren F1GTR from the British GT series. Ahhh 1970's technology!
Sid asked Chris to back off a bit as he was scaring some caterham drivers....
Wasn't the M8F turbo a Jim Hall creation? I last saw it in Trevor Parfitt's workshop.
As for Can-Am and bringing it back - well - the 3m x 2m box idea is fine if you couple it up with - the races will be 200miles, and you can have 150litres of bio-fuel. That's it. Suddenly, 1200bhp monsters disappear, but the technical brains have to create something fast, reliable, and economical. That's not 150L of diesel either!
That's how F1 should be. The only restrictions should be the physical size, which is a minimum as well as a maximum, and the amount (and type) of fuel they can use.
Now, where's my credit card, I'm off out to buy a shopping car for the wife....
thunderbelmont said:
The March 707/717 - now that's a beasty. Running 8.8 now is it? When I last met it, the engine was a puny 8.2, and the dyno sheet said 997bhp....
Wasn't the M8F turbo a Jim Hall creation? I last saw it in Trevor Parfitt's workshop.
You must be remembering it incorectly, i have all the dyno sheets from the day the car was restored and it's never had that much power. It's got more now than when Chris drove it, but more significantly it's got far more torque. I meet Chris on a regular basis, he's one of our regular main competitors with the earlier sportcars. He runs quite a few cars of his own now, from a T70 Spider, Chevron B9, Cobra and Mustang.
Jim Hall was behind the Chaparals, the M8FT was a McLaren project payed for by Chevrolet, the works team binned the idea after one run but the Commander Motor Homes team did run an M8FT and an M20T in the 1973 season.
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