I always thought there was 3. I think in a movie I downloaded it said there was three.

You're correct, there are 3 seats, one in the middle for the driver then one on the left and one on the right for some very lucky passengers.

http://www.rapidcars.com/f1interior3.jpg

here ya go

hehehe you can sit in the middle and 2 hot ass girls can sit on each side!!!!!!!! lol!:smoka:

Look at the dips in those seat! You could put some water & goldfish in those! (Not that I ever, ever would)

Man, that would be one sweet car ride. Does anybody know what the speedometer goes to. I am sure it will go up over 200 mph.

the 200 mph on the mclaren speedometer is where 35 is on my truck, i would kill for one.

it goes to 240 mph and 380 kph. i think thats the only car i can think of that can go faster than the speedo goes up to....

No my friend, my 1994 Chevy Lumina goes at least 95 and the speedo only goes to 85...i rule.

Originally posted by hermunn123
i think thats the only car i can think of that can go faster than the speedo goes up to.... There are plenty of American muscle cars that can "bury the needle."

Answer to Speedo question. The Speedometer goes up to 390 km/h,or roughly 230 mph. I saw the movie with Gordan Murray (or was it Andy Wallace) but anyways he did 391 km/h with a digital Speedometer. It makes things much easier. BTW, the Speedometer unlike most cars, goes 3/4 around the whole gauge, which is much better than increments of 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, etc. cause who spend most of thier time at 200 km/h anyways?

sorry, about the needle thing, i kinda meant something else though. Porsche, it was Andy Wallace that drove the F1 to 240.14 mph. the speedo does go to 240 mph and 380 kph.the speedo wallace had was digital, the normal speedo isn't digital

Ya, I know it's analog, but according to you, it goes up to 240 mph, but only goes to 380, I thought it would go to the full 390. Cause 240 mph is 384 km/h so I figured it woul have gone up more.

i have a picture of the F1 speedo. 380 kph is the highest it goes, i'm sure it can go faster, but thats all it goes to.

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That's wierd

Originally posted by hermunn123
i have a picture of the F1 speedo. 380 kph is the highest it goes, i'm sure it can go faster, but thats all it goes to.

Could you post the picture?

I had one kicking around in my McLaren folder. Had to shrink it down for size reasons. The original 1600x1200 clearly displays the top MPH speed of 260, and the KMH at 400. Not too shabby.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/106677McClarenDash.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/106677McClarenDash.jpg

:drool: carbon fiber. why don't i see that everyday:confused:

because you drive an '89 toyota pickup

Originally posted by hermunn123
because you drive an '89 toyota pickup reality is a bitch

Lol, subtle, well-placed jokes. :D


Oooh 260 MPH, that's like 45 times faster than I can run.

actually the mclaren only has one seat, because it's a single seater :D

I think you referring to the Ameritech F1's that were brought to the states as a 1 seater in order to be legal for the show and display license.

Snowboarder...you are slightly mixed up. Ameritech brought the cars in before show and display. They imported them as "kits" into a free trade zone port and slapped their own VIN numbers on them along with the McLaren VIN numbers. They also removed the two side seats and made them into "single seater kit cars" but of course the people who bought these cars immediately put the seats back to the original configuration.

The Show and Display is an exemption category that allows cars to be exempt from DOT FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards) requirements. They are not exempt from EPA emissions requirements, however. So the cars don't need to have any changes made, except perhaps to the engine management and exhaust systems Any McLaren owner who applies for a Show and Display exemption does not need to change the seat configuration in any way.

The Le Mans cars (there's five of these and they are called McLaren F1 GT) had only seat as well. The nearside seat area (right side when you are sitting in the driver's seat) houses the ECU, fire extinguishing system, and a large panel with various other switches and control and monitoring systems. I forget what's on the left.

Here's the breakdown of each type of car produced:

3 GT (roadgoing longtail) version. 1 in Japan, 1 at the factory, 1 unknown, possibly with the Sultan of Bruneii.

5 GT LM (long tail) that were actually used in racing. 1 in North Carolina, rest I don't know.

28 GTR (hard core! These were the ones raced at Le Mans). They are pretty hard to come by. A few belong to race teams.

64 (1 has been written off in a crash, numerous others lost to private collections, 8 have been converted to a GTR "look" with extra brake cooling and spoilers and front skirts--these are the most desirable ones--they have the comfort of the road cars and the better performance and looks without the discomfort and noise of the GTRs. Some of these have been converted to the GTR spec, or to a high downfoce package, with the fixed rear wing, high downforce package, better brake cooling through ducts or snorkels, etc.

Pink Floyd's drummer, Nick Mason, has a red example of these "GTR conversions", and it was in CAR magazine two months ago. :bandit:

Someone could confirm that this is the Ameritech ?

http://membres.lycos.fr/tnyssen/ameritechf1.jpg

http://membres.lycos.fr/tnyssen/ameritechf1cockpit.jpg

If you have other pictures, I'm interested :D

Yup, that's the "Ameritech McLaren F1." The company is actually called Amerispec. Run by a guy named Dick Fritz. It's in Connecticut.

The bumpers, side marker lights, and seating changes were the only things they did, looks wise.:bandit:

I love the interior. The seats look like they have been dipped as if they are go-karts seats.

but they are very comfortable...

I have a go kart, but it only has plastic seats :( I wish I could get a racing seat in the frame.

it´s not much more comforable

Originally posted by Porsche
Lol, subtle, well-placed jokes. :D


Oooh 260 MPH, that's like 45 times faster than I can run.

so uh.....you only run 5.7 miles per hour??? my cousin was on my motorcycle and i was running and he clocked me around 20 mph and that wasn't a dead sprint either, haha. so the mclaren is only 13 times faster than me.

nother thing, in my new Road & Track they compared, well not compared just basically drove, a Porsche 959, a Ferrari F40, and a McLaren F1 and then he got to ride in an F/18 Super Hornet, pretty good article, i read it this morning

is it possible to get road and track in germany

You would have to order it.
Have you seen the signature yet menu?

hm no not yet.. i´ll have a look!

could/would you post a link

I have e-mailed it to you. :)

thanks!

looks so good!

It is the best one I have made, I also made Silverlotus340r's one.

thanks again..
i´ll look at silver

What do you think?

really nice i like his most

It is quite good. Maybe I should make myself a new one.

well i like all 3
yours is very good, too

ok :D

have seen your jag at automotivecritics.com
gave him a 10 :D

HELLO! yes this is my sig! i love it! thanks again jsb.

i like menu's ...ferraris...almost as good as lotus' ! :D

thanks! all three are a masterpiece of art :D
jsb you can sell them to the national art gallery :D

Turner prize maybe! :D

I always thought there was one seat in the F1, which turned me off the F1, so I went to a function in the UK, where there was an F1 on dispay, imagine my dleight when I found there was 3 seats :D- at least it means when I'm rich I can still have an F1 and be a family man, just as long as I only have one kid :p

Hehe I was driving mine the other day :D :rolleyes: and I am a family mna!

well so buy 2 mclaren.. one for you and one for your wife... so you can have 4 kids :D

Sneaky Idea

:D

But then you would not be able to argue.... oh right you only shout when one of you crashes into the other whiile keeping up! :)

well i would kill myself if i crash a mclaren

You would probably be dead anyway. :( I am sure they owuld re-do it for you if you had enough money, as they are such rare cars and they have huge amounts of recourses.

yea may be



ps: i´m just sending you the first 2 vids..
it takes some time cause my antivirus programm scans them and that takes most of the time :-(

on the CD?

no that was when i tried to send them via email...
know the cd is burned and will take his way to the middle of nowhere on monday

yay! middle of nowhere is where I am!!!!!!!!!!! :D

can´t find it on a map

sorry it is off the page. :)

back to mclaren f1

how may were made?
how many do still exist?

200 and something, and only a couple have been written off. :)

Only 100 were made and as far as I know, only 2 have been damaged beyond repair.

I thought there were more than that... maybe 100 of the road type.

*headache*
had a accident with my z3
i´m feeling so bad now...

what happened? :( :( :(

No offence, but how is this related to the McLaren F1?

Exactly 100 cars have been produced.

64 road cars
28 GTR (for racing)
5 GT (long tails)
3 GT LM (roadgoing longtail cars)

Several of the 64 road cars have been converted to the high downforce package (fixed rear wing, extra cooling for the brakes, etc.) which makes them look like GTRs from the outside.

While several have been involved in accidents, only one has been completely written off. That's the one Chris Dawes killed himself and two others in. It hydroplaned and hit a tree and flipped over and the fuel leaked onto the exhaust manifold, burning it to the ground.

The factory has 4 cars:
A silver roadcar that is on permanent display at their Park Lane showroom
A green GT LM at the factory, destined for their museum
A silver and black demo car that is for sale
A green car (K8 MCL) that was used to set the records and has about 40,000 km on the clock.

So there's 95 cars out there. But a few are in private collections and will never be sold. So there's less than 95 in "circulation" and while most were in Europe, more and more are finding their way into the US after Show and Display rules allow them to be imported without modifications except to the exhaust system so that they meet EPA emissions regulations.

interesting, thank you. All those pictures you see of a black car are the record holding cars then, as I remember the number plate. :)

mr bean had a mclaren right?
but i think he crashed it...

well... some oil was on the street when i got off the "autobahn" and hm i hit the crash barrier and went over a curbstone :(
11000$ damage and i won´t have a car for 2 weeks now:(
but i´m fine again

are you sueing the spiller of oil, or the government? Mr Bean was indeed the man who wrote off the Mclaren... i am pretty sure it was written off anyway.

well there was some oil on the street not coming from my car...
the funny thing is my friend has a z3 3,0 with chip tunig.. about 270 ps...
he got there 10 min later and nearly the same happened to him... just some scratches... not a good day for z3 drivers :(

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) rear-ended a Mini and had extensive damage to his front end. But it was fixed. The McLaren is so expensive and so exclusive that most owners opt to fix them, even when there is extensive damage.

Chris Dawes' car is the only one I am aware of that has been written off.

The black car that holds the records is dark green. It may jus tappear black in photographs, or it may actually have been painted black to begin with, but it is currently dark green.

thanks for the info of mr bean:flash:

I'm from england but believe Ameritech had to do the mods because the Mac has no side airbags so had to remove the passenger seats in order to import them and make them road legal, as with the other mods. Usually customers returned the cars to original spec as soom as they were licensed.
carbuilder2002

anybody got a website, email or phone number for ameritech?