When you read the history on the McLaren trust website you may understand some of the questions above. It was of course written off and then a lot of parts were cobbled together to make a show car. One wonders if the car as sold contains any parts of the original car but as they say if some of the original parts were replaced with new ones it has the lineage of the original and is not a replica. Lets hope there isn't another one out there with the same chassis number.