The Official McLaren F1 Thread
Feb 26, 2010 | 05:23 PM
#181
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From: Malibu, CA
Peloton25 AKA Eric knows where every single Mclaren is and who owns it!!! I have know him for years and he is one man wealth of INFO....trust me!!
Feb 26, 2010 | 06:21 PM
#182
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Good to know. He seems very knowledgeable and very passionate about McLarens so he has my respect. Plus it always comes in handy to have someone who knows more than you do.
Feb 26, 2010 | 07:01 PM
#183
McLaren Fanatic
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,578
From: California, USA
Thanks for the compliments there guys. 
Quoting myself from two posts I made on FChat:
So while I certainly aspire to know everything we're still not quite there yet. Since that last post was written, I've learned the name of the current owner of car that is fairly new to the USA, bringing the number of current 'unknowns' down to 17.
F1s tend to change hands at a rate of about 5 or so per year which adds to the challenge of keeping track of them. Sometimes I wish they'd just stay put, but often the only time they surface is when one comes up for sale.
>8^)
ER
Quoting myself from two posts I made on FChat:
Originally Posted by Peloton25
There are still some 'unknown F1s' and they fall into a two categories for me.
There are a couple of chassis numbers we really know nothing about. Those would be #049, #052 (we do have build photos), #057, #066. Three of those cars are silver, so we could have seen them and just not known. Most of the unidentified F1 pics I have are silver.
Then there are some cars that have been seen at one point in their lives (in certain cases - rather well known) and then have kind of fallen off the map. Chassis #072 of Thomas Gonzales is one of those cars. The others I would put into this category are #012 which we believe is the 'TagHeuer' F1 used in the BestMotoring videos; #033 if it was truly rebuilt after its crash; #039, believed to be the brown F1 in Mexico; #048, in build photos and spotted once in Cannes; and finally the other yellow F1, chassis #060, probably still in plastic in Japan.
There are a couple of chassis numbers we really know nothing about. Those would be #049, #052 (we do have build photos), #057, #066. Three of those cars are silver, so we could have seen them and just not known. Most of the unidentified F1 pics I have are silver.
Then there are some cars that have been seen at one point in their lives (in certain cases - rather well known) and then have kind of fallen off the map. Chassis #072 of Thomas Gonzales is one of those cars. The others I would put into this category are #012 which we believe is the 'TagHeuer' F1 used in the BestMotoring videos; #033 if it was truly rebuilt after its crash; #039, believed to be the brown F1 in Mexico; #048, in build photos and spotted once in Cannes; and finally the other yellow F1, chassis #060, probably still in plastic in Japan.
Originally Posted by Peloton25
There are 30 F1s out of the 64 road cars where I can't tell you the original owner's name. Of those 30, we do know where 16 of them were originally located at least as far as the country, and 6 of those cars went to Japan which is always a difficult place to get information from.
Moving on to present day knowledge, there are just 4 chassis that we know nothing about the ownership history of - those are #049, #052, #057 and #066 in case you happen to see any of them, or in case you are looking for an F1 chassis number that you'd like to pretend belongs to you.
Besides those 4, there are 18 F1s where the current owner's name is not known, however, 14 of those cars have a current known location.
Moving on to present day knowledge, there are just 4 chassis that we know nothing about the ownership history of - those are #049, #052, #057 and #066 in case you happen to see any of them, or in case you are looking for an F1 chassis number that you'd like to pretend belongs to you.
Besides those 4, there are 18 F1s where the current owner's name is not known, however, 14 of those cars have a current known location.F1s tend to change hands at a rate of about 5 or so per year which adds to the challenge of keeping track of them. Sometimes I wish they'd just stay put, but often the only time they surface is when one comes up for sale.
>8^)
ER
Feb 27, 2010 | 01:51 AM
#189
McLaren Fanatic
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,578
From: California, USA
Reader Review: The McLaren F1 Experience
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ER
PS: The Aussie F1 is #009
Last edited by Peloton25; Feb 27, 2010 at 04:10 AM.
