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[Closed] One for the petrol heads - £100m+ of Mclaren F1's

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Kidd in a Sweet Shop is always excellent. Jodie's Macca factory tour with Zac Brown is brilliant for example but this one is, imo, better 🙂

Very very cool collection


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 10:01 am
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I liked her tour of the UK Gumball guy's HQ. I don't know anything about the guy but I liked his old school BMX frame collection


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 10:37 am
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Apparently those cars are never going to be driven in anger again as they were bought as investments.
Total shame as an F1 giving it beans is a glorious sound.


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 10:52 am
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Makes me sad that. Same with most modern hypercars. Years of work and 100’s of million pounds in development and most of them spend their life sitting under a cover in a garage, bought simply to say you have one.


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 11:33 am
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Interestingly, as per the vid, when the F1 was first released people did buy them to drive them. They never thought they may go up in value and bought them for what they were. The ultimate drivers car.

There's a good few with 40k km+ on them. One owner in Germany used theirs for the daily commute and regularly did 200mph + on the autobahn.

Jay Leno for eg still drives his regularly even today.

I know if I ever won the euromillions I'd buy one and drive it also 🙂


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 1:48 pm
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I used to work next door to the bit where they cleaned the F1s up before they delivered them.

Every couple of weeks you'd be working on a spreadsheet then hear the noise as they fired one up. Quite a noise.

Lusted after a papaya one, but any 18/9 it was well out of my price range. Still is now TBF.


 
Posted : 09/04/2022 2:01 pm
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On the industrial estate where I worked there was a racing team that ran F1’s.
The racing versions looked even more amazing. I wonder how many were stuffed into the barriers at races?


 
Posted : 10/04/2022 2:27 pm
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This may be total bs, but I seem to remember reading all 28 F1 GTR chassis are still alive, including one that had a massive fire but was still rebuilt.


 
Posted : 10/04/2022 2:31 pm
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Rowan Atkinson’s infamous F1 is now owned by a relative of Bin Laden


 
Posted : 10/04/2022 2:53 pm

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