Cars cars cars (and some bikes)

[TheJock]

Please post pics the the McLaren chassis if you manage to locate it. I'd love to see it

Hi guys, I found some of the McLaren rolling chassis pics, unfortunately not very great quality, but I said I’d post them.
I’ll follow up with a couple from the Supercar Show that happened a few weeks later, which was incredible, every rare marque I could have hoped for and more!! Only problem there was that the entire car park had a red carpet which caused colour spill on to some of the cars.

 

[TheJock]

And a couple from the supercar show a couple of weeks after the McLaren launch, every marque imaginable and then some!

 

[TheJock]

And a few more.

 

[Roo]

nice shots Stewart although in the case of the McLaren beauty really is only skin deep! ;D I'm off to an all American car show today. Hopefully I'll get some decent pics.

 

[Roo]

cars with sunstars

 

[Click]

cars with sunstars

Nice pictures, Roo

 

[Roo]

cars with sunstars

Nice pictures, Roo

Thanks Click much appreciated. I decided to just use the nifty 50 STM for the day and I was either wide open or stopped right down with it.

 

[dslrdummy]

One from the Mercedes Museum, Stuttgart

 

[dslrdummy]

And another

 

[dslrdummy]

Mercedes 300SL Gull Wing

 

[V8Beast]

Thanks for finding the pics, Stewart. So am I looking at a carbon fiber tub and aluminum cradles?

IMHO, McLaren doesn't make the prettiest road cars, but that's OK because they go like stink!

 

[TheJock]

Hi V8, your spot on, a CF Monocoque cabin with aluminium and titanium chassis parts. The Middle East launch was held in the Armani hotel, so it was quite a swanky affair, I also managed to blag my way in to the P1 launch at the Habtoor Grand hotel ballroom, it was even better!! I’m quite bias as I’m an avid McLaren F1 team fan (I don’t follow drivers) so I love/prefer the McLaren road cars over the usual Ferraris and the like.

I got the chance to work on the Fast and Furious 7 in Abu Dhabi and I drove the MP4-12C back to its resting place, loved it!! The steering wheel felt so precise it was scary, that on top of the acceleration would be real fun on a track, unfortunately I only drove it round the Emirates Palace. I managed to drive quite a few exotics that day, I started up and drove/re-parked a Veyron, a McLaren SLR 722 and I was the precision driver in the yellow Ferrari 458 in the film, the scene where the cars all come in to park one after each other. The weekend before I drove vehicle number 2 (black Suburban) in the scene with Kurt Russell. No cameras allowed as you would expect, but I think there are a couple of iPhone snaps somewhere!!

 

[TheJock]

Ye it is a bit of a pain but I was there for 3 days so I don't think thats too bad. Lots of action lots of cars.

I was meaning the more rare cars like the Ferrari 250GT SWB breadvan. Only one ever made and it won the first Stuart Graham Award which was given for most admirable competing car.

Estimated value being £10 million.

Ferrari 250GT SWB breadvan, Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy For Historic Cars Pre '63 GT, Silverstone Classics 2015 by Tom Scott, on Flickr

'The striking three-litre V12 scarlet Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan is a one-off Ferrari made in 1962 from a 1961, chassis number 2819 GT. It was commissioned by Count Giovanni Volpi in 1962, when Enzo Ferrari refused to sell the immensely rich Venetian one of his new 250 GTOs, Volpi simply hired renowned engineer Giotto Bizzarrini to upgrade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB into a GTO beater – the result was the distinctive Breadvan, so known due to its extended rear roofline and shooting-break appearance. The re-bodied Ferrari made its debut at the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hours, outpacing all of Enzo’s GTOs before being sidelined by a driveshaft failure. Despite being immensely valuable, thanks to the enthusiasm of its current owner, it continues to regularly compete in major historic events such as the Silverstone Classic.'

I see the breadvan was crashed at Goodwood last month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Brut_Photo]

3 p1's

 

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3 p1's

First post? Beautiful car. 8)


...and welcome to CR

 

[Brut_Photo]

3 p1's

First post? Beautiful car. 8)


...and welcome to CR

Yep. Figured would post 3.6million in one photo

 

[sama]

Classic Car Show in Markham Ontario 8) 8) 8)

 

[sama]

and these

 

[Roo]

nice images sama

 

[V8Beast]

I got the chance to work on the Fast and Furious 7 in Abu Dhabi and I drove the MP4-12C back to its resting place, loved it!! The steering wheel felt so precise it was scary, that on top of the acceleration would be real fun on a track, unfortunately I only drove it round the Emirates Palace. I managed to drive quite a few exotics that day, I started up and drove/re-parked a Veyron, a McLaren SLR 722 and I was the precision driver in the yellow Ferrari 458 in the film, the scene where the cars all come in to park one after each other. The weekend before I drove vehicle number 2 (black Suburban) in the scene with Kurt Russell. No cameras allowed as you would expect, but I think there are a couple of iPhone snaps somewhere!!

Sounds like a fun day at the office ;D May I ask what you do for a living?