That would be a lot better than slapping a livery on a road car in order to pretend it had raced.Īlso, there were some people who wanted a GTR in order to make it look like an LM, which have almost always been impossible to buy, and that was the motivation for their conversions of GTRs that included the “Papaya” paint.įurthermore, for most of their life the F1 GTRs have cost buyers a meaningful amount less than the road cars did buying a GTR was a less expensive way to become an F1 owner. Next, one might have wanted an F1 road car that looked like a racing car, which would lead one to take a GTR and run it with its genuine historic livery. The road cars have gone through periods when none was for sale, so if you wanted an F1 to drive on the road you had to buy a GTR and convert it. Think it’s different from the F1 road car/GTR situation.įirst, many if not all of the F1 GTR conversions were done by guys who did not have F1 road cars. “It has never been clear to me what the point of that conversion would be. Aangezien niemand hier op dit forum een F1 en een P1 bezit, en Flemke wel, en dus ietwat meer kennis ter zake heeft, zal ik hier zijn antwoord copy-pasten op de vraag wat ie vindt van een eventuele conversie van de GTR tot een straatlegale auto: Flemke neemt de tijd en de moeite om elke vraag, hoe onnozel ook, te beantwoorden. Op Pistonheads loopt de thread “Flemke – is this your McLaren” al een eeuwigheid en is ondertussen toe aan z’n 5e volume! In deze thread stellen forumleden Flemke de oren van z’n hoofd over z’n McLaren F1 en sinds kort ook z’n McLaren P1.

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