Thursday 23rd April 2009

Polish Man Builds McLaren F1

Ultimate supercar project emerges from builder's shed

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The McLaren F1 ranks pretty highly on most petrolhead lists of dream machines, but few would go to the lengths of re-creating the legendary 'Macca' at home.

In keeping with the original design, this recession-spec F1 from Poland uses a V12 engine purloined from a dead BMW. The Polish F1’s carbon fibre tub appears to have been redesigned in steel and fibre glass, but as for the rest… your guess is as good as ours!

However, we especially like the small model car upon which this brave backyard builder appears to have based the whole project. See a full gallery of project car pictures below.

 

[SpyderPig]

Good effort. Much nicer to look at than your average kit car!

[haggy]

Be nice when its finished!

[Gad-Westy]

Polish man builds McLaren F1 Automatic!

Clearly a skilled individual if a little misguided.

[Nickellarse]

I like it. Compared to some of the tat we see this is actually quite pleasing. It puts to shame the miriad of stoopid student designs. This lad has at least put his money where his mouth is and dun it.

He needs to get a nice bird on top of it for the photos though!

[paul26982]

good effort but terrible in a way, will probly sell for a fair few quid too. Flemke were are you, love to here your comments

[briancorish]

Er, I'm pretty sure that's a V8, not a V12...

[SleeperCell]

For the record (and the retards who are clearly the blind ones for not noticing the numerous comments that also point this out), when I posted the below there was in fact a prominent picture of an Audi V8, not the BMW M70 that is now pictured. To the PH 'journalists', I realise being accurate in either facts, spelling or grammar is far beyond your capabilities but FFS you could at least have the sense to fess up when you go back and change things like most publications do, you're supposed to be part of a proper publishing company now, not some two bit backyard operation.

Err thats pretty obviously a V8 engine, not a V12 and an automatic??

To be fair the exterior is nowhere near as bad as most of the dodgy replicas of Ferraris and I suppose at least the engine is in the right spot and it looks relatively proportionate, but that interior doesn't look to be shaping up too well.

Edited by SleeperCell on Friday 24th April 04:32

[hugh_]

That is a stonking effort, nice to see it going onto a custom chassis rather than a rebodied <insert 80's 4cyl coupe here>.

[Nobody You Know]

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that the car is looking pretty good, good work, obviously some skill and knowledge gone into it.

Better than that Rover based monstrosity that was shown on here a while back.

[fpsasm]

What you have to remember is.. nower days you can get get 200+hp/litre easially, and 120hp/litre with reliability ( e.g the XFR )

[Gad-Westy]

fpsasm said:

What you have to remember is.. nower days you can get get 200+hp/litre easially, and 120hp/litre with reliability ( e.g the XFR )

erm, am I missing something?

[PeeJay]

SleeperCell said:

Err thats pretty obviously a V8 engine, not a V12 and an automatic??

To be fair the exterior is nowhere near as bad as most of the dodgy replicas of Ferraris and I suppose at least the engine is in the right spot and it looks relatively proportionate, but that interior doesn't look to be shaping up too well.

There's a V12, red valve cover, in the background in pic nr 2.

[zcacogp]

fpsasm said:

What you have to remember is.. nower days you can get get 200+hp/litre easially, and 120hp/litre with reliability ( e.g the XFR )

Interesting. What do you base such comments on - do you have figures? (Cars, not bikes.)


Oli.

[Snoggledog]

Gad-Westy said:

fpsasm said:

What you have to remember is.. nower days you can get get 200+hp/litre easially, and 120hp/litre with reliability ( e.g the XFR )

erm, am I missing something?

Me too...

[BoRED S2upid]

Well done that man a very good effort, will look even better when its had a paint job.

Shame the PH journalist couldn't tell a V8 from a V12, poor motoring journalism.

[911motorsport]

fantastic effort, in a TVR meets Maclaren type way.

[jpalmer]

PeeJay said:

There's a V12, red valve cover, in the background in pic nr 2.

I'll stab that the Audi V8 pic is to show the transaxle he's using.

[dean_ratpac]

you have to applaud guys like this - albeit bonkers and left in a shed for far too long. Amazing, he probably will end up with quite a nice looking machine. At least he didn't build it in his basement and have to tear half his house apart to get it out. Lambo stuck in bassment oh how i laughed! another fine example though... gifted - yet bonkers

Edited by dean_ratpac on Thursday 23 April 13:36

[Mc Lovin]

bloody good effort, the man's got talent. Doing the best with what you've got springs to mind and he's certainly acheived that imo

[Tahiti]

Hats off! Looks like a pretty good effort.

I wonder what Mr Dennis thinks...