RE: Chris Harris video: shotgun in a McLaren F1

[jon-]

andy74b said:

Very very old video, was just before I got the car. Car now has the cage taken out and seats/harness fitted. Interesting video to post given that I know what speed that must have been!!

If anyone interested, car now having full rebuild to as new spec. Will be back in the summer.

How long have you had the car?

Isn't there a rule where you can't be tried for the crime if it was X years ago? I seem to remember Alex Roy doing something similar with his run from east to west. Perhaps that's just America though, or perhaps I made it up.

[PaulB81]

Wonder what day that was there? I was in that dealership on Monday poking around the Ferarris whilst waiting for them to fix the door on my elise... must have just missed the F1 being there

[iva cosworth]

LuckyP said:

Le Mans....

1995....

Going into the night, raining......

Were you there?????

Yep ,first time i had been down there

[0a]

Have to say that was the best PH news item ever! Absolutely brilliant not to see a car of this value tootling or outside Harrods. As for the erm, enthusiastic driving, I wouldn't care if how many points I took (for the seatbelt I mean, of course).

[GFWilliams]

Pic of the interior in a more recent state

[andy74b]

dinkel said:

Oh my . . . #14R, built for Team Goh ("Team Lark McLaren") for JGTC in 1996, scoring 1 victory before being destroyed in an accident at Sugo. Replaced by refurbished chassis #04R and later converted to a street car.

It's 13r.....

[LuckyP]

iva cosworth said:

Yep ,first time i had been down there

What a way to break your duck!!

[andy74b]

PaulB81 said:

Wonder what day that was there? I was in that dealership on Monday poking around the Ferarris whilst waiting for them to fix the door on my elise... must have just missed the F1 being there

Was may/June 2010. So guess you missed it.

[wst]

I sincerely hope that this was shot before August 2011, because if it wasn't then I've been regularly (well, I went twice last week) driving past Dick Lovett (almost applied for an apprenticeship with them but it was too far away :'() for work and... the video of Tiff in a GTR on the road makes me cry at the end because I am never going to have one unless I am the jammiest git in the world.

If I drove one I would summarily kill myself straight after.

(Whether this is because life would never be as good as the driving of that, or so that someone with an F1 that doesn't like me would just give me the keys for an hour... no comment )

[BBS-LM]

Interesting Video on the History of Dick Lovett:, some very nice metal on show,as you would expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCA7XLphec&fea...

[E38Ross]

was lucky enough to see and hear this at wilton house 2010

andy - when you say original spec do you mean original for the road car? what about the wing etc?

[0a]

Thread in SPL soon

[dinkel]

andy74b said:

It's 13R.....

. . . and http://www.meijdonck.nl/mclaren/1997/26r.php >>> 26R

Cheers for that.

[David87]

Fantastically mental. Great video.

[Chris Peacock]

600 brake, and it looked well planted at each full throttle burst....

Then again, was it on full slicks?....


No wonder CH was soiling himself.



Great vid btw Chris

[glm1977]

very nice - love the way the driver kept looking in the mirrors (for the police?) as if anything was about to catch up.....

[Rich_W]

dinkel said:

andy74b said:

It's 13R.....

. . . and http://www.meijdonck.nl/mclaren/1997/26r.php >>> 26R

Cheers for that.

As a rule, probably best not to disagree with the owner of a car about it's heritage

Re: the Police. i reckon they just wanted a closer look. Don't blame them

To all @drive.

Keep it coming. If you could string together an hour show once a week. Maybe air it at 21:00 every Sunday.

Edited by Rich_W on Wednesday 18th January 21:36

[MrGman]

Awesome video

Not sure i'd be sitting there with no seat belt though, no matter who the driver was!

[10 Pence Short]

Rich_W said:

As a rule, probably best not to disagree with the owner of a car about it's heritage

Some time later in SPL said:

Guys, I bought a car from a dealer in 2010 and have just found out the chassis number is not what they said it was. Can I get my money back?

[andy74b]

Chris Peacock said:

600 brake, and it looked well planted at each full throttle burst....

Then again, was it on full slicks?....


No wonder CH was soiling himself.



Great vid btw Chris

Road tyres. Mclaren did conversion in 2006.

Planted throttle would spin the wheels.