Gardos F5000

[Steve Holmes]

I see Chris Watson has the McLaren M18 based Gardos F5000 for sale. I've not seen many period images of the car. Is this an earlier or later guise?



Advert here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...1120085396.htm

[Terry S]

I see Chris Watson has the McLaren M18 based Gardos F5000 for sale. I've not seen many period images of the car. Is this an earlier or later guise?



Advert here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...1120085396.htm

This car has been for sale on Race Cars Direct for almost a year but hasn't sold.

The advertised price was GBP 80,000 which is about NZD 142,000. Now they want NZD 180,000 for it. A bit brave.

https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/De...m18-gardos-or2

For some other photos see

http://autopics.com.au/search.php?se...gardos&Search=

and

http://www.oldracephotos.com/shop/in...rdos&x=19&y=19

[Ray Bell]

There are pics of the car in the F5000 Thunder book for comparison...

At least one Barry Singleton's story and there's a story from Jaime Gard as well.

I really don't think it looked like the pics shown, but I'd need to have a look at the pics to decide whether or not it's just the colour or something that's different. It was a very late car in the F5000 era, so it shouldn't have been changed much at all.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks you guys, great info! Looks like its been restored to its later guise. Here is the car (thanks Terry for the link) in 1980.

[Terry S]

I see this car has popped up again today on Race Cars Direct.

They still want GBP 80,000 for it. As I said in post #2 it's no wonder it didn't sell in NZ at NZD 180,000

[Terry S]

I see this car has popped up again today on Race Cars Direct.

They still want GBP 80,000 for it. As I said in post #2 it's no wonder it didn't sell in NZ at NZD 180,000

I see that this car still hasn't sold at GBP 80,000, so they have changed the price.

Now they want GBP 90,000 for it......

https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/De...m18-gardos-or2

[Terry S]

I see that the Gardos F5000 is still on the market at GBP90K.

That must be two years since it went on the market

[Ray Bell]

It would be a shame to see it broken into its component parts because they can't sell it...