McLaren M6-GT 1969 Road Car

This M6-GT was developed by Bruce McLaren from the M6 CAN-AM car in 1969 and served as his personal transportation until his death in June of 1970. After Bruce's death, the road car project died with him. This original prototype was the only one built at the race shop. Others were built and modified by Trojan who built all the customer McLarens at that time. The number produced has been reported to be 3 or 4.
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Denny Hulme bought the car and shipped it to New Zealand for display at the Museum of Transportation and Technology. Denny sold the car in 1990 and it came to California. The car has a total of 1,973 miles on it and is original except for paint. Few historic cars have been preserved in such original condition. The top speed is 165 mph and it accelerates from 0 to 100 mph in 8 seconds.

I love it! You can see where they came from with the F1.

Wow, do you have any pictures of this car? I thaught McLaren F1 road car series were the only road cars that mclaren ever produced for the road :/

Originally posted by gigatron
Wow, do you have any pictures of this car? I thaught McLaren F1 road car series were the only road cars that mclaren ever produced for the road :/

the F1 is the only road car to be produced by McLaren Cars Ltd. (unless u want to count the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren). but McLaren also have a history of racing in Formula-1, Indianapolis, Le Mans, and Can-Am. the picture above is that of a McLaren Can-Am race car.

I attended a hill climb event in Worcester, England about 5 or 6 weeks ago.

The event is the Shelsley Walsh hill climb, incidentally, the oldest (car) racing meeting in the world...

There was an M6-GT there. It was red and in excellent condition. Needless to say, it was driven up the course very slowly!!

(There was also an original GT-40 as, chassis no.1008...http://www.gt40.org.uk/Cars/1008_1.HTM)

I believe i'm right in saying there was a replica version produced during the 80's called the UVA Montage; anyone else remember this?

the m6gt had a chevy engine :biggrin:

"Wow, do you have any pictures of this car?"

http://www.barchetta.cc/All.Ferraris/sports-cars/img-7646-1.html

http://www.barchetta.cc/All.Ferraris/sports-cars/img-7645-1.html

Here's one for sale...

http://www.bobileff.com/ferrari_frame.html

Then scroll to the bottom of the page...