Where is my McLaren???

I did a search on every search engine known to man. I could only find the race cars like F1. It may be possible to downgrade the racers to road legal. Sorry zokissima.

Yes there were 1/43rd scale kits of the F1GT in road and race trim, including the original road car that Bruce Mclaren built himself and used as personal transport. I know of none in larger scales. Try www.grandprixmodels.com and search their catelogue, I would think any kits are now out of production.

I'm assuming you mean the McLaren F1 road car, circa 1998?

There's never been a plastic kit of this car. A few cast-resin kits of the GTR cars have been produced, I believe, but they were very expensive and I don't believe any are still in production.

I'm surprised Tamiya never kitted this one -- it's a really interesting car, and it seems like it'd be right up their alley (no pun intended).

Hope this helps,

Matt Usher @ FSM

Yes, the F1 road car.
Thanks for all the posts. I was afraid that there was never a kit manufactured. And I completely hear you on the Tamiya front. I thought for sure they would have made one. Alas, no such luck. I'm sure the kit would have done well. I'm tired of building ferarris. I want some other super/sport cars to build.

I'm sure this note is a couple years late, but here goes.

I have also been searching for the McLaren F1 GTR. I even stopped by the dealership in London to enquire. No luck. After a while, I did come by one (just ONE) manufacturer of a kit in 1/24 scale. It was put out (in resin) by the Japanese company Studio 27 ( http://www.kiwi-us.com/~studio27/e/index2.htm )

Now, unfortunately, I made another recent trip to their website, and it appears the McLaren is not on the list. So, you may have to do some searching in a warehouse or eBay or whatever. Let me know if you come across something, as I'd be interested myself in picking one up.

 Accurate Miniatures made a Mclaren of some kind but its been several years ago. I can't remember what model it was but I had two of them. Started one didn't like it, threw it away and sold the other on E-bay

Matthew Usher wrote:

I'm assuming you mean the McLaren F1 road car, circa 1998? There's never been a plastic kit of this car. A few cast-resin kits of the GTR cars have been produced, I believe, but they were very expensive and I don't believe any are still in production. I'm surprised Tamiya never kitted this one -- it's a really interesting car, and it seems like it'd be right up their alley (no pun intended). Hope this helps, Matt Usher @ FSM

I think it's their whole contract thing with mclaren that messed everything up, hence all their mclaren Formula1 kits went out of production right away as well, even the newer MP4/13 kits.  Good thing I managed to stock myself 3 of each kits and 2 of the 1/12 MP4/6...reason being i grew up watching senna and all.  =P

As for the F1, i remember seeing the studio27 kits as well in 1/24, but never any plastic kits.

No, there's never been a kit of the McLaren F1 road car made - unfortunately. Studio 27, & I believe Le Mans Miniatures, are the only companies to do ltd rel resins of the long & short tailed versions. Otherwise McLaren Cars International & BMW wanted far too much money in royalties. I don't think Gordon Murray was ever too pleased with even seasoned journos test driving it. I still have a mag packed away somewhere, that has an article on Jonathon Palmer's blat in it. The one bit I remember was Jonathon's comment: 'Faster than a real F1 in just about every gear', or words to that effect.

The kit you're referring to billbirk, is the CanAm M8, & it's successors. Bruce & Denny basically ran riot through the CanAm series back in the early 70's in those things. 

Profil 24 did two versions, both resin.    Studio27 a number of different versions and Renaissance did a super kit.
GP Models have some Studio27 in stock but others to order only (4to6 weeks) - £84 for Profil24 and £105 for the Studio27 - that will give the credit card a beating !!!

www.grandprixmodels.co.uk

What we REALLY want is a super detailed 1/12 kit!   I'll have to speak nicely to Ron Dennis next time I see him (only kidding - I should be so lucky!).

Martin