First ever modern McLaren F1 car to be offered for sale

[FourWheelDrift]

Nice Marlboro car too. Ex-Mika Hakkinen MP4-Peugeot from 1994, used in the San Marino GP of that year.

Link below.

http://tinyurl.com/rjnon

[flemke]

While it may be true that it's the first of the McLaren F1 cars built after Ron/Project Four got involved with McLaren, there are loads of cars from the '60s and '70s that are in private hands, a number of which regularly compete in vintage competitions.

[FourWheelDrift]

funny you should post that I just changed the title incase anyone should come back with that

[flemke]

Great minds think alike.

Kidston has just started his own auction/acquisition/advisory shop. It's no surprise that someone in his position would hype something as much as he could.

[racefan_uk]

What are the odds that a buyer on the phone called 'Ron' is the winning bidder..?

[FourWheelDrift]

£225,000 isn't a bad price for a McLaren-Peugeot F1 car, probably be worth more without the Peugeot engine though

Little video 256k WMV - http://f1.online.videos2.free.fr/vide

[Eric Mc]

Brundle blowing up in 1995?

[FourWheelDrift]

Yep, but 1994.

He suffered an electrical failure, a conrod went through the ECU.*



*McLaren engine failure excuses, number 141.

[Eric Mc]

1994 of course

That was one dramatic GP.

[williamp]

But the advert says its LHD. No good for circuits in this country...

[ettore]

Is this statement actually true though?

I seem to remember David Clark at Taylor & Crawley offering an MP4 a couple of years ago? (could be my memory failing!)

Also, doesn`t the Sultan of Brunei have the odd MacLaren dotted around? I`m sure if he was serious about acquiring one even Ron would unlock the store cupboard!

The price is interesting as well - on the surface it seems reasonable because of rarity (on the external market at least). The engine will help, but this was hardly a successful car was it? Benettons, Williams et al are cheaper. Even contemporary F1 Ferrari`s suffer a weird market. The "latest" available cars are sold off for significant sums ($1M+)to "favoured " (read mug) clients whereupon they slide in value for several years until they are perceived as historic.

[rubystone]

racefan_uk said:

What are the odds that a buyer on the phone called 'Ron' is the winning bidder..?

I reckon you may be right - not much point in firing the engine/s up though