Thanks Ken, what a great image! The McLaren is exactly as I saw it 20 years later at Silverstone except it had the VDS stripes, as in the 1990 article. The owner later removed the turbo and made it a normally aspirated car, which made it more reliable, but took away some of its character.Originally Posted by khyndart in CA
June 1973. Trojan Racing. Croydon. London. Team VDS McLaren M8F Turbo.
VDS mechanic, Graham Donaldson had just finished preparing the team's McLaren M8FT for the 1973 Interserie races in Europe, using the Trojan Workshop.
I would hang around Graham and get to "touch the sides."
Ken Hyndman "touching the sides" and Team VDS mechanic, fellow Kiwi, Graham Donaldson
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