On the heels of our latest entry into The Smoking Tire dream garage, a friend of the site sent in these photos from a recent Florida car show. This is McLaren F1 #73 of 73, the last F1 built. Hard as it is to believe, the owner wasn’t satisfied with the car, so he sent it back to McLaren, and had them install a GTR Body Kit, special forged wheels (the only set of its kind), re-paint the car in Dark Tangerine Metallic, and, most importantly, install the LM engine. This is one of two such F1 road cars to have the engine swapped for the LM unit. They finished the job by adding an upgraded cooling system, upgraded air conditioning (a must for South Florida) and a sport exhaust. The grand total? 690hp and 2300 lbs.
Although this isn’t an authentic LM for the history books, it combines the best of both worlds: The more powerful engine and bodywork with the less noisy snychromesh gearbox from the road car, and a full interior with A/C and a radio.
#73 is such a unique piece of McLaren history, it’s hard to say what the car is actually worth. Given that a nice example F1 would sell at about $1.8 million in today’s market, and estimates for the LM’s are around $10 million, we’d say $5-6 million is a good number for this car.
Thanks, Vinny for the tip!
that really is a very nice peice of kit, unique. ive been obsessed with mclaren for a long time and i questioned whether you were right to have the LM in your dream garage as i would most definatly have the straight F1, but #73 provides that middle ground that may just be the ticket……lets hope we dont both come into the money at the same time as theres only one!
in the sign it says it is #73 of 75. not #73 of 73 so its not the last f1 ever built