One of my favourite Can-Am paint schemes, that of Oscar Koveleski's McLaren M8B. In 1970, Oscar bought one of the ex-factory cars that had dominated the championship in 1969. Lothar Motschenbacher bought the other one. Koveleski had support from hobby car company Auto World, who sold kitset models, slot car ets etc, and his fantastic paint scheme was created to look like a Scalextric slot car set wrapping itself around the body.

Of the three factory McLaren M8B's from 1969 (one being an updated M8A from 1968), two are now in New Zealand. The M8A became the spare car in 1969, and was then updated again to M8D spec by McLaren, who kept it, and eventually this was the car gifted to Denny Hulme, and is now with the Bruce McLaren Trust. Can someone tell me which is the second car now in NZ? Is it the car that wet to Motschebacher, or this car that went to Kovaleski?

Koveleski qualified 14th, and finished 6th in the race. Behind him is the elderly Horst Peterman McLaren M1C.

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