Mclaren F1 spotted!

[ditchvisitor]

On Friday afternoon by the Silverstone Porsche roundabout I saw an awesome F1 with the plate F1 TOO
Looked incredible and cheered up my traffic riddled drive!

[ilovevolvo]

Tony does like to use his .....

[hurstg01]

I guess it looked like this

[ditchvisitor]

Yep!! Amazing! Brilliant to see it out being used on a Friday in traffic! I almost went round the roundabout again so I could see it again!! It seems that quite a few of the owners on here, ie Andy, Flemke actually use them rather than be garage queens.

[prg123]

Wow that and an F40 in my garage, would be just perfect...... When I'm rich

- Pete

[exigepete]

Was discussed on here a few years ago, apparently belongs to (or at least used to) the former manager of the band Genesis.

[nickson]

if it is tony smiths then he lives about 500yards from me. i have seen the car in the flesh a couple of times, but i havnt seen it about for years! awsome and very rare sight on the roads! pretty much one of my fav cars ever!

[munch997]

I was lucky to catch this leaving Silverstone a few hours ago! Very much by suprise.

[Pork]

munch997 said:

I was lucky to catch this leaving Silverstone a few hours ago! Very much by suprise.

Did you manage to get any pictures?

[ilovevolvo]

nickson said:

if it is tony smiths then he lives about 500yards from me. i have seen the car in the flesh a couple of times, but i havnt seen it about for years! awsome and very rare sight on the roads! pretty much one of my fav cars ever!

Yes its Mr Smiths you must have a nice view of his castle (CC) nice place to live

[nickson]

it is a mighty nice house! and he has some lovely cars. i remember going up to his place about 15 years ago when i went to a local after school club lol. went swimming in his pool, and one of his guys showed me into his garages. i cant for the life of me remember any of the other cars he had, as the mclaren was the only one i was interested in at the time! i would love to go and see what he owns now! but the only reason i got the oppitunity at the time was because this after school club had use of his pool every now and again.

shame i havnt seen the mclaren driving about chiddingfold either, last time i spotted it must have been 6 years ago!

[ExiledScot]

Absolutely made my day seeing that, been my dream car since I was a kid, never expected to see one in the flesh Attracted quite a crowd!

[Carparticus]

hurstg01 said:

I guess it looked like this

Followed it down the A5 whilst I was heading for the Silverstone Classic event on Saturday.

Theres dozens of pics from the event here :- http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...



Snap taken from top of a double decker bus with an iphone, clearly showing the 8ft high rugby post wing on the back

[chevronb37]

Tony Smith had this tucked up behind his 246 Dino at Silverstone. I posted these photos elsewhere on PH but hope nobody minds a repost. I've been fortunate enough to see the car at a number of race meetings where Tony has been competing in one of his historic racers.

[tugs]

I saw him too!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-8BjLvOP0&fea...

[ilovevolvo]

nickson said:

it is a mighty nice house! and he has some lovely cars. i remember going up to his place about 15 years ago when i went to a local after school club lol. went swimming in his pool, and one of his guys showed me into his garages. i cant for the life of me remember any of the other cars he had, as the mclaren was the only one i was interested in at the time! i would love to go and see what he owns now! but the only reason i got the oppitunity at the time was because this after school club had use of his pool every now and again.

shame i havnt seen the mclaren driving about chiddingfold either, last time i spotted it must have been 6 years ago!

Your a lucky guy there is many great cars in it I do love his masser 250f of course the f1 is king