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McLaren's 1966/7 F1 cars
This is a fantastic article on theses cars. Lots of great photos. Should greatly appeal to Kiwis.
Highly recommended
https://primotipo.com/2016/10/07/mcl...19667-f1-cars/
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World Champion
Have passed this link on to the current owner of the M4B. Thanks.
I'll be posting a pic of the McLaren Ford shortly on my picture site.
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Good article Terry, thanks. Now for the picky bit. The tacho is not reading any revs at all, the redline/telltale is though!
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The Primotipo site is truly excellent. Lots of well researched and interesting articles and photos - Australian bias, but that's to be expected, and lots of off-beat and interesting tidbits.. Fully recommended!
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World Champion
From my Mix of Pics thread
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Before any fluids were put in the car, this was one way to work on the underside.
The first McLaren M4 A being prepared at Colnbrook in 1967.
Photo from McLaren book by Doug Nye.
Perhaps that was common practice back then as this is Paddy Hopkirk's Mini Cooper being worked on during the 1967 Acropolis Rally.
(Only difference is the Mini was still full of fluids !)
I can remember looking out from the stand at Pukekohe before the start of the 1971 NZGP and watching the Rorstan crew work on the Porsche powered car which was on its side as they tried without success to fix the gearshift for the unfortunate Bryan Faloon to drive.
(Ken Hyndman )
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Semi-Pro Racer
This photo has always amused me - I wonder if the gentleman look at his watch is the owner? Photographer unknown
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I just love the "transporter" of the day! Of course the "designer" photo is absolutely priceless.
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Bruce McLaren liked having New Zealanders on his team and this is shown in this photo of the 1966 F1 Mallite chassis car.
From left; Eoin Young, Howden Ganley, Bruce McLaren, Bruce Harre, Colin Beanland, Chris Amon and John Muller. (All Kiwis. )
(I met up with John Muller years later on a kiwifruit farm near Tauranga and we had an interesting chat.)
Photo from:Bruce McLaren;The Man and His Racing Team by Eoin Young.
(This was the team that I dreamed of joining one day.)
That first GP car still looks good today. 50 years later. 1966-2016.
(Ken Hyndman )
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 10-20-2016 at 09:19 PM.
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