Full Carbon P1

[Ellb123]

Hi all,
Attended a show this weekend (Bella Auto @ Bywell Hall) and there was a full carbon fibre P1 on show.

What an absolutely crazy looking car, and the paintwork/Carbon looked incredible in the light. I was just wondering if anyone had an background on the car, I’d be interested to know about it, what kinda price did these go for? And any reason why it would be LHD?

I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgable on Mclarens so go easy on me 😂

[aazer89]

So you have to ask MSO (Mclaren Special Operations) to do this, a rather expensive and unique spec.

AFAIK there are only a handful of these in existence - Ive seen two others on the interwebs (one is owned by MSO the other Manny Khoshbin). Prices.... no idea whatever MSO deem the right price. Dont forget the car itself is about £1 - £1.3 million

[The Surveyor]

I was talking to the guys on the McLaren stand at the Bella Auto Show, they were from McLaren Leeds which is part of the 'Parks' group, the car is owned by the Parks family. They said it was a custom set of bodywork supplied by McLaren Special Operations (MSO) with a purple pigment in the carbon fibre resin (rather than a purple lacquer over black carbon) and it did look absolutely amazing.

The guys on the stand were spot-on, really nice and seamed to be enjoying the event, although when I asked if I could possibly sit in the car, I was told very quickly 'no'.... lol

[ralphrj]

The Surveyor said:

They said it was a custom set of bodywork supplied by McLaren Special Operations (MSO) with a purple pigment in the carbon fibre resin (rather than a purple lacquer over black carbon) and it did look absolutely amazing.

The owner may have had to order it via MSO but I'm pretty sure it was supplied by Prodrive.

[rich12]

Please tell me that bird st was removed very quickly?

[nessiemac]

rich12 said:

Please tell me that bird st was removed very quickly?

Do you mean reflection of a flag?

[rich12]

nessiemac said:

Do you mean reflection of a flag?

Ha. Thank god. Can't zoom in on my phone so it really does look like bird st!

[WCZ]

they're all LHD op,

a common thing with the halo models.

[footsoldier]

That car was personally specced by Ron Dennis, and then auctioned off for charity. (At a premium)
Was bought, and still owned, by Park family, who own Mac Glasgow.
They also have an all carbon 675LT I think
Here it is in 2015 with a 918 I also know well,,,

[flemke]

I don't know the exact number that were made (or retro-fitted) with "visual carbon-fibre" bodywork, but it was around fifteen or twenty (including all the prototypes that they rebuilt and were not included in the official production numbers). IIRC, full VCF bodywork cost an extra £250k.

[jamieo]

You may be thinking of 675s, there are 25 carbon bodied 675LTs. Sell for about double the price.

See here: http://www.mclarenregistry.co.uk/675lt-1/

[footsoldier]

flemke said:

I don't know the exact number that were made (or retro-fitted) with "visual carbon-fibre" bodywork, but it was around fifteen or twenty (including all the prototypes that they rebuilt and were not included in the official production numbers). IIRC, full VCF bodywork cost an extra £250k.

Yes. I can’t be sure, but fairly confident this one was retrofitted. I can’t remember it being full visual carbon when above pic was taken.

Parks for sure sent their 675LT to be done later as well.

[flemke]

jamieo said:

You may be thinking of 675s, there are 25 carbon bodied 675LTs. Sell for about double the price.

See here: http://www.mclarenregistry.co.uk/675lt-1/

No, I am not thinking of the 675s.
That list on the linked pages is incomplete. McLaren built and sold to customers more than "375" P1s. The VCF option was theoretically available from the beginning of the P1 build-run, but McLaren were not in a position to put it on actual customer cars until the initial 375 were done.
Near the end of the normal build-run, McLaren decided to offer to customers the bulk (IIRC about 15) of the prototypes as nearly-new units, with the main point of differentiation being that those prototypes would be rebuilt with VCF bodywork and therefore would not "count" as being additional to the 375 regular cars.
Once they had done that, and with a few normal customer cars still left to build, they were in a position to offer the VCF bodywork as an option on the remaining cars or as a retro-fit to cars that had already been delivered. As I said, IIRC the additional charge for VCF on the P1 was £250k.