The Official McLaren F1 Thread
#481
The silver F1 is chassis #068 and when you saw it in Monterey in 2009 it belonged to Dan Watkins of Massachusetts. He and three friends had driven some of the cars from his collection across the US the week prior to Monterey in a trip they dubbed "Supercars Across America". Automobile Magazine printed an article about their journey here. Dan was a great owner, but unfortunately chose to sell the car earlier this year and right now it's in the UK. Previously it spent about 4 years with an owner in Costa Rica, and prior to that it was here in the USA with a different owner who also had another road car and an F1 LM. I rode in that F1 back in 2005 - definitely a great day for me!
I love all your F1 pics Gideon - thanks for sharing them at Flickr.
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#482
Those are really excellent shots of that pair. If there are more from those sets I'd love to see them.
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#486
The pics are kind of out of order, but if you study them a bit closer you'll see they just repainted the nose of the car and then some of the other areas that get road rash while driving. This was done while the car was for sale through DK Engineering sometime in 2008/2009. I can assure you that Mototechnique would have matched the paint exactly so any variation on colour (spelled the Brit's way) is a result of the camera/lighting variance.
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Last edited by Peloton25; 12-13-2010 at 11:18 AM.