The REAL Story Behind McLarens First Car

The F1 Has A Grandfather, And Its AWESOME
In todays video, we go over the history behind McLarens first ever road car, the M6GT, where it came from, how it was developed, and what ended up happening with it.
00:00 intro
01:15 M6-GT/M6-A history
03:19 M6-GT development
05:23 Tragedy
#McLaren #f1
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Tags (IGNORE:) - McLaren, McLaren F1, Formula 1, Bruce McLaren, McLaren Artura, Artura, McLaren M6-GT
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[@Jerseygarage]

Are you a fan of the M6-GT? Whats your favorite McLaren car ever made?

[@vaultdweller2287]

I’m a fan of the m6, f1 long tail, and speedtail.

[@IlianNachev]

I am a fan, but my all-time favorite car is the F1. I will most probably never be able to own one so I am getting my sports car itch scratched with a ‘95 Mitsubishi GTO TT AWD ATX. I have installed a Forced Four shift box and paddle shifters in it so I can be in control of the transmission. I also replaced the stock turbos with slightly larger units that yield about $650hp to the crank. I know, it is not a McLaren, but how many people can afford one anyway… And it looks darn good with the ‘99 front and rear end conversion I did to it! 😉

[@totes1378]

You can definitely tell that the F1 takes a lot of liberties and shape from the M6-GT

[@BartLocanthi]

Some issues: "little known" driver Denis Hulme was the F1 champion in 1967, and co-dominated Can-Am with fellow Kiwi McLaren.
McLaren died while testing the M8D (not "A") aka Batmobile, which ironically was developed to accommodate the FIA ban on "unsafe" high wings .. which the M8B used in dominating the 1969 Can-Am.

[@RegenXF1]

I asked u to make this video and u did it thanks but M6 gt still interesting

[@vaultdweller2287]

I was wondering about this car for a few days when I saw it on the mclaren website, now I’m a fan!

[@Jerseygarage]

I'm glad you enjoyed! It is a really awesome car

[@vaultdweller2287]

it is very beautiful too I gotta admit

[@michaelmorahan57]

denny hulme had one for years must be the british race car driver he mentioned denny was a new zealander like bruce

[@LEMIZLITE]

Never heard of this car, but great video

[@Jerseygarage]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@sands6864]

you learn something new everyday, great video!

[@Jerseygarage]

appreciate it thank you!

[@samuelsabo9493]

Probably the senna though i won't lie I'm not a huge McLaren fan, can't deny they have some amazing cars

[@Jerseygarage]

I'm not a terribly big fan of their cars, as they are all pretty much copy and paste just with minor body style changes, doesn't mean some of them like the Sabre and the 720S aren't awesome

[@samuelsabo9493]

@@Jerseygarage couldn't agree more, love the videos

[@magikvfx]

I love to shit on mclaren for building shit cars (F1 excluded), but this thing actually pretty cool, sadly only got a chevy small block.
Wished it got a v10 or v12, possibly a detuned one of those flat 12's
Great vid!

[@Jerseygarage]

Thank you! And yeah it would have been cool to see some sort of unique power train other than the LS of its time in the form of the 350 small block, but that’s just my opinion

[@pchurchill]

£50m shid be the RESERVE .. price at auction !! (given rarity and legacy!)

[@IcePea379]

i did 10 pushups while listening t9 this video

[@Jerseygarage]

Thank you IcePea379! Very Cool!

[@neontd]

​@JGarage this sounds like one of those yt studio auto replies

[@Jerseygarage]

Nah, its like the Trump tweet where he's like
"thank you Kanye! Very Cool!"

[@armenian_man]

i did 11

[@Jerseygarage]

@@armenian_man no one likes a show off

[@Miguel-is9mr]

Cool car! Unfortunately tho, it's Br*tish

[@Jerseygarage]

eh its got American guts so it can't be that bad, then again I wouldn't necessarily trust British designers, how can I trust them to build a car when they can't even elect the right prime minster?

[@Miguel-is9mr]

@@Jerseygarage Exactly, brother

[@LEMIZLITE]

Bro censored Britsh 💀