McLaren Minivan !

[mab01uk]

Spotted on the NAM Mini forum in USA.
http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/fo ... e-60s.html

This is from Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car, November issue
"love the description of the high tech instrumentation used by team McLaren in early Can-Am days!"



McLaren Company Minivan Reg. No. UUL 153F

[rich@minispares.com]

so that's what the little meals on wheels vent on the roof of original mini vans was actually designed for..........

[LMM76C]

Cooper S wheels (and presumably brakes too). There's a photo of this van outside the (5 David Rd) unit in Phil Kerr's book, same wheels.
Tyrell also had a Cooper S braked Mini van, which I subsequently took the front brakes off for my 998 Cooper around 67/68.

[miniminor]

Can see where today's generation of Honda Civic and similar modifiers take their inspiration from!

[Chris64]

Hahaha, that's excellent!

[Jeroen Booij]

It turns out the McLaren test mule Mini Van was previously the Brabham works parts delivery car, too.
The car's mechanicals were later used in a TiCi kit car that survives - still unbuilt - in the USA.
I'm not making this up!
https://maximummini.blogspot.com/2022/1 ... ks-to.html

[mk1]

Such a shame that van is gone for good.

Interesting story none the less.

M

[66Traveller]

I remember it - or a recreation of it - at Goodwood Revival a few years ago.

[mab01uk]

I remember it - or a recreation of it - at Goodwood Revival a few years ago.

Bruce Mclaren Tribute - Goodwood 2015

"The team’s original battleship grey Austin Mini van – Tyler Alexander’s ‘company car’, and the vehicle used to test pylon wings around the streets of south west London during the early days of aerodynamic exploration!"
https://www.mclaren.com/racing/heritage ... d-revival/

[surfblue63]

not the only Mini Van seen at McLaren