[hurstg01]

brt900 said:

Bingo sports seem to have one for sale
http://www.bingosports.co.jp/StockDetail1/shop_632...

That's possibly my favourite F1, and has been for sale / sold for a while now [chassis #029 in Creighton Brown colouring for those that take note] and has commanded a high price

[epom]

brt900 said:

Bingo sports seem to have one for sale
http://www.bingosports.co.jp/StockDetail1/shop_632...

Wow, just wow.....WANT !!

[Don1]

Sold, according to the site? Stunning.

[crosseyedlion]

Bookmarking this thread.

Coming to the realisation that i'm more than a little bit obsessed with the McLaren F1.
Badly need to see one in the flesh, are there any on display in the UK?

[johnnyreggae]

Peloton25 said:

Gooding and Company will auction McLaren F1, chassis 066, at their Monterey sale

From their description of the original owner could this be the car that allegedly did 200 mph almost every day on the guys's commute to work as they discovered when giving it a quick remote check ?

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?p=2&a...

Actually reading Flemke's later post suggests it could be the other car ?

Edited by johnnyreggae on Tuesday 13th August 15:10

Edited by johnnyreggae on Tuesday 13th August 15:13

[CraigyMc]

crosseyedlion said:

Bookmarking this thread.

Coming to the realisation that i'm more than a little bit obsessed with the McLaren F1.
Badly need to see one in the flesh, are there any on display in the UK?

They turn up at motoring events quite a bit (eg. Festival of Speed etc). That's probably the best place to see one.

As far as I know none are in public museums (which is a good thing!)

C

[iva cosworth]

CraigyMc said:

As far as I know none are in public museums.



C

I have had a glimpse of a private collection ,not sure how many but when I was there,there was at least 3 F1s present.

I was delivering building materials to them.

[hurstg01]

johnnyreggae said:

Peloton25 said:

Gooding and Company will auction McLaren F1, chassis 066, at their Monterey sale

From their description of the original owner could this be the car that allegedly did 200 mph almost every day on the guys's commute to work as they discovered when giving it a quick remote check ?

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?p=2&a...

Actually reading Flemke's later post suggests it could be the other car ?

Its a different car - that was Dr Bschers [of Bugatti fame]

CraigyMc said:

crosseyedlion said:

Bookmarking this thread.

Coming to the realisation that i'm more than a little bit obsessed with the McLaren F1.
Badly need to see one in the flesh, are there any on display in the UK?

They turn up at motoring events quite a bit (eg. Festival of Speed etc). That's probably the best place to see one.

As far as I know none are in public museums (which is a good thing!)

C

There is one in South Africa in a museum that sometimes has public days....and there were a few in Japan but that Museum seems to have closed.

[Peloton25]

crosseyedlion said:

Bookmarking this thread.

Coming to the realisation that i'm more than a little bit obsessed with the McLaren F1.
Badly need to see one in the flesh, are there any on display in the UK?

If you plan to come down south sometime soon, message me and I might be able to point you in a direction.

>8^)
ER

[crosseyedlion]

Peloton25 said:

crosseyedlion said:

Bookmarking this thread.

Coming to the realisation that i'm more than a little bit obsessed with the McLaren F1.
Badly need to see one in the flesh, are there any on display in the UK?

If you plan to come down south sometime soon, message me and I might be able to point you in a direction.

>8^)
ER

Cheers, expect a PM soon

[storminnorman]

I was re-visiting some of the older parts of the topic the other day - does anyone know if Flemke's magical clutch eventually got replaced?

[camshafted]

Another has changed hands in recent weeks.

DK Engineering just sourced an F1 for a client in his 30s.

The 1994 car was originally delivered to Japan's Tag Heuer sales boss I believe.

[Joe911]

storminnorman said:

... does anyone know if Flemke's magical clutch eventually got replaced?

The car has been driven very little in the last few years, unfortunately. Still though on the same clutch after 33k miles.
During the life of the clutch, as it wears and starts to slip, it can be adjusted/shimmed up to 4 or 5 times before the surfaces are so worn that the plates must be fully replaced. Even that adjustment has not been needed.

[Peloton25]

camshafted said:

Another has changed hands in recent weeks.

DK Engineering just sourced an F1 for a client in his 30s.

The 1994 car was originally delivered to Japan's Tag Heuer sales boss I believe.

That was chassis 012 they sold - it has bounced around a bit in the past few years but they have suggested it will likely stick with the new owner a while. Given his age I fully understand. Congrats to him!

If you go back in time to 1994, #012 was the car used in the Best Motoring videos wearing the Tag Heuer decals. It was one of my first real exposures to the car watching those video tapes back then and despite not understanding Japanese I was still pretty mesmerized but what I could see. The car still has one Tag Heuer decal left on the center of the steering wheel - I hope he keeps it there.

>8^)
ER

[alecmets2011]

Hey peloton25, I tried asking you this on another forum a couple of months ago, but you never answered. It seems you're here on this forum a lot more, so I signed up, and well here I am. Anyways, how many F1s were originally painted McLaren orange and how many of them remain that color today. Chassis #s would make it even better. Thanks.

[hurstg01]

alecmets2011 said:

McLaren F1 chassis #066 has sold for $3,575,000. Over the estimated selling price.

has to be more than that, they are commanding nearly $10m....

ETA it hasnt crossed the block yet....

Edited by hurstg01 on Saturday 17th August 21:03

[alecmets2011]

@ Hurst

Whoops I was looking at chassis #062 when it was sold back in 2010. For some reason when you search for McLaren on G and C's website it's the only F1 that pops up. My apologies. I thought the sold price seemed strangely low.

Edited by alecmets2011 on Saturday 17th August 21:34

[thegreenhell]

$7.7m at the hammer, $8.47m inc. commission.

Edited by thegreenhell on Sunday 18th August 05:03

[Rollcage]

That's interesting.

A fully legal US import car doesn't make $10m - seems the prices haven't firmed quite as much as we thought!


Edited as was thinking of a different car.

Edited by Rollcage on Sunday 18th August 10:23

[alecmets2011]

With this one going for $8.47 million, I have no doubt that within a year or two you will start seeing them sell for over the magical $10 million mark. Although... something's just occurred to me. Since the price of the McLaren F1 is rising so rapidly and is now worth so much, I hope most of the owners don't start permanently keeping their cars in garages, worrying that if they take them out on the street that any little damage will kill value. Kind of like the 250 GTO. Very few owners exercise them regularly. Cars, especially the F1, were meant to be driven.