1/18 Scale McLaren F1's Showcase

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These are getting rarer and more expensive these days, so who has any of them? I have the LM (which is really a 1996 GTR wi
th LM orange road car paint job) and the 1997 "Longtail" GTR road version in black. I have a silver Maisto F1 in 1/18 scale but the detailing, although very good, is far behind UT's. I also have the chromed version which although was made from the Maisto car does seem to be better detailed. I am looking for the standard road car but eBay searches are becoming shorter and shorter these days, and the values become greater and greater. Feel free to show off your F1 collection, road cars or Le Mans racers.

Here's mine:


Maisto/Gwilo McLaren F1 chrome paint


Maisto McLaren F1 road car (1993) and UT Models McLaren F1 LM 1996


UT Models McLaren F1 GTR 1997 "Longtail" Road version


Don't be shy, show off your F1 collection!

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Cmon guys surely someone else has a McLaren F1 in their 1/18 collection?

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Yes if it is the UT Models 1/18 model it is now extremely rare, and you have the box, it would also command a very very high price if you ever wanted to sell it. I paid nearly £60 for mine last year and that was a cheap one (it had a few scratches in it which I removed with some T Cut and Auto Glym polish for proper cars.

The black longtail one in my collection holds the record for most expensive car in my collection. I paid £65 for it and again I got it cheap, some of those are commanding £120-200 on eBay now. The racing ones are also getting quite rare and are pushing past £100 these days.

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Yep exactly the same here. I would never want to sell it (or any of my 100+ car collection) but knowing I would get more than I paid for it is nice to know. When I was much younger, dad stopped me buying a longtail for just £20 because it didnt have the box with it. I was pretty upset at the time because I was 10 and wanted it more than anything else, but now I know it wouldnt have been worth more than £5.00 without the box, and I have seen them unboxed on eBay with prices at £5-10.

The real LM is my dream too, but it is an impossible one, as there were only 5 made, 2 are owned by the Sultan of Brunei, 2 by McLaren, 1 of which Ron Dennis has promised to Lewis if he wins the title, and the other is owned by someone very very rich in America (I think). Oh well we can all dream, or wait to see if the P11 will be any good in 2010

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yep, and I still maintain it would be quicker round the TG test track than just about anything (In LM guise of course). I haven't seen an LM/GTR for real yet, but on the way to East Midlands airport a couple of years ago, I saw the "standard" one in silver coming out of Donington. Dad asked me what it was but I just stared at it, what a gorgeous car. They say if the gearing is tweaked a bit it could get the world record back from the Veyron and SSC Ultimate Aero thing. Would love to see that...

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M3John: It was the same story for me, albeit this was last year. UT ones have gone through the roof the last few years as they went out of business, so the Maisto ones are slowly going up as well; I paid £30 for one off eBay. Looking for the UT version as well, but they command nearly £130 in some cases.

Kiwi Carguy: Nice big collection. What manufacturer is the 1/8 black GTR with gold wheels?

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Broomsticklady said:

Sorry to resurrect topic. I've been asked by a friend who's computer illiterate to sell a few things on ebay, one of which is the 1:18 UT model F1 Silver road car. It's boxed and to be honest doesn't look as if it's ever been taken out of box - it has some kind of 'banding' round it which I think wouldn't be there had it been out.

I've no idea how much this might be worth starting at - I don't want to go in at a silly level, but equally don't want to take a chance on 'giving' it away!

Edited by Broomsticklady on Thursday 6th November 23:29

Wow, that sounds very good. If I wasn't so honest, I would offer you £20 HERE and now for it, but I am, and I could safely say you could start the bidding at £80+ and it will still sell, or if you're going to put it as buy it now, about £130 would be the right price. These things are rarer than rocking horse poo these days, especially the UT ones.

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Wammer said:

motormania said:

Don't you just love it when a manufacturer announces a Limited Edition model, it sells out and then 5-10 years later they release it.

That then devalues the price tag of the original and if I'd had one of them i'd be writing to Minichamps right now to complain.

Makes all Limited Editions from minichamps pointless - besides, when they are producing several 1000 of a model, how limited it that? That to me is a mass produced item. Limited to me is something below say 50 models worldwide.

I know why it is done, put the words Limited Edition on the box and you can up the price and the fools will think they are getting something very special.

It's like all the 'Limited Edition Specials' that GPL try and pimp you... It's just the same models repackaged in a different way - pointless exercise and done not for the collector but for the company selling them to make more money off us - SUCKS!!!!

Yeah I heard the licence agreement finally expired, I just wish that they could have made more sooner, I will be buying the Minichamps 1/18 release when it's out, but also I think what my collection needs is Lewis' MP4/23 and the MP4/24 when it's released, along with the MP4/6 driven by Senna.

The reason they stopped producing the model (which wern't supposeed to be Limited) is that McLaren fell out with BMW who partly held the licences to the model. Its now been 10yrs and the Licence has run out so the model can be made again.

Its not that they want to screw all there customers who bought the model 10yrs ago. Anyway have you seen the prices on ebay recently they dont seem to be getting affected.

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The Maisto one should fetch £25-40 if its in top condition and boxed, but if its not in good shape then just stick it on eBay and see what it goes up to. But if it's the rare chromed version (imported by Gwilo) then they're worth a hell of a lot more. Some are changing hands for upwards of £200. Not bad when 3 years ago I paid £45 for mine


UT Models ones start at £50 and go into space. If it's the metallic gunmetal grey version then that's worth £120+.

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tim-b said:

dpbird90 said:

These things are rarer than rocking horse poo these days, especially the UT ones.

That's nice to hear, I have the orange UT model, but some bloke has defaced it by scribbling his name on the roof....looks something like...[gloat]"Gordon Murray"[/gloat]. He was running a college project when I was studying car design, and was a thoroughly nice chap. Bit embarassing asking for his autograph, but glad I did now! Not that I could ever sell it...


how much did you say they were going for again?

Wow, If I had the money I'd expect to pay at least £400 for that. Which version is it, the original with the bi-plane rear wing, or the later single planed one? The earlier bi-plane one is worth even more, they didn't make very many at all, and it's a true replica of the real thing. A year later they realised it cost too much and just painted the GTR race version in LM colours. "Unfortunately" mine is the later single plane version, but I don't care. Along with the other 3 I have in my vast collection (original roadcar, "longtail" road version in s gorgeous metallic black, and of course the centrepiece chrome edition) of 100+ 1/18 scale cars built up over 15 years, they are my favourites. Unfortunately, my entire collection is being boxed up and stored in the loft, as I'm going to Uni in 2 weeks time, my sister is having my old bedroom, and I can't take them with me because a) I won't fit them in the car or in the flat and b) it's a stupid idea so have £2000+ worth of model cars lying around. Most of the collection has at least doubled in price since I bought them, including an original bburago Ferrari 250 GTO, which I found in a bargain bin at a souvenir shop in Spain and paid €20 for, 5 years ago.

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gearboxed said:

Hi everyone , i have the said car F1 Mclaren chrome plated limited ed, just taken it out of the box for the second time since i brought it back in 1993, it's the Gwilo import, can anyone advise the best way of selling the car as im selling all my cars from over many years of collecting.Sadly the wife has won the war and it time for my cars to go , many thanks mark

Personally, I'd tell her you're keeping at least the chrome McLaren. They're hitting £200ish these days, and considering in 2006/2007 sometime I paid £45 for mine that's a pretty good investment, and I'm wondering what it will be worth in another 10-15 years time, so I'd suggest to keep hold of that one. But if you really must sell it, then eBay is perhaps the easiest place to sell it at, but we all know what some people on there are like these days...

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ogrady said:

I have a UT model of the orange McLaren F1 GTR 1:18. Does anyone have any idea of it's value and the best place to sell it.

Cheers

You could try the back of the local paper, but most seem to end up on eBay. As for value, at the very least I'd say £60, more for s minter. And if the rear wing has the 2 planes (as the real car does) then you could safely get £100+ for it