The McBegg is currently being rebuilt in Invercargill by Wally Willmott who built the original chassis at McLarens. I was talking to Wall in the weekend and we were discussing the car. The original chassis is with the McLaren Trust but they have another chassis in Invercargill, and most of the original Begg built parts. Wall told me the story of how the McBegg came into being. I am not sure of the year, but McLaren were building the M1Bs and were also running the F1 car, and had a tyre supply contract with Goodyear for the supply of F1 tyres. Bruce felt that these tyres proved to be better than the tyres they were using on the M1Bs but were only available in 13" wheras the M1Bs ran 15" wheels, so it was decided to build an M1B chassis with altered suspension pickup points to suit the smaller wheels. The car was assembled and raced but did not handle as expected. It was tried again with 15inch rear wheels and 13" fronts, which improved the situation, but was still not as good as had been anticipated. The car was subsequently stripped of all the parts and the chassis thrown into the rubbish bin. Also in the rubbish bin was an M6 front body section (I was told by the original driver of the McBegg that this was from Denny Hulmes Can Am championship car) This was being used by Wally Willmott when they were building the prototype M8. The nose section had been sliced through the air intake ducts horizontally and deepened by 2". Moulds were then taken from this, and it to found its way into the rubbish. George Begg, who was working at McLarens at the time asked Bruce if he could buy both parts and was told to just take them away, which he did, and brought them back to New Zealand when he returned and built the McBegg.