Dear Ultimatecarpage.com visitor,

Most car enthusiasts are familiar with the McLaren F1, which is still considered the finest road car ever constructed, but far less people know that this was not McLaren's first road car. Officially launched at the London Auto Show early in 1969, the McLaren M6GT was intended to be the company's first street car and a contender for Le Mans glory. Based on the highly successful M6 Can-Am racer, the M6GT was very much the brainchild of company founder Bruce McLaren, much like the F1 was Gordon Murray's pet project. Unfortunately the car's future was cut short very early in the development due to rule changes and the entire road car project was shelved after Bruce McLaren's untimely death early in 1970 at Goodwood. It is fitting that his final trip on public road to track was in his personal M6GT. This car was bought by his team-mate Denny Hulme and displayed for many years in the Auckland Museum of Transport in McLaren's native New Zeeland.
Apart from Bruce's own car, only two other M6GTs were produced in 1969. In the 1970s various Can-Am racers were converted to coupe form, but there are only three original cars, which are all accounted for today. The car we feature today is the only example that has contemporary racing history. Amazingly only a few years after it rumbled around Europe's racing tracks, it was used to bring the next owner's kids to school. In 2006 it was bought by the current owner, who has brought it back to its 1969 competition specification.
We have uncovered every detail of this little known machine in a thorough article and 18-shot gallery, showing the M6GT in action at last year's Monterey Historic Races.

McLaren M6GT - Ultimatecarpage.com - Images, Specifications and Information

Regards,
Wouter Melissen