A Delivery Mileage McLaren F1 Is Up For Sale, And It Makes Us A Bit Sad

McLaren F1 chassis no. 060 is being sold at a specialist dealer, and it's done just 148 miles from new

17 Oct 2017

A Delivery Mileage McLaren F1 Is Up For Sale, And It Makes Us A Bit Sad

What we have here is a McLaren F1 like no other. It’s clocked just 239km (148 miles), effectively meaning it’s covered delivery mileage only. It was never registered by its single owner, and is still wearing its factory protective wrapping. Oh, and it includes all the original accessories including the tool chest and luggage set.

This 1997 example is finished in Dandelion Yellow, while on the inside you’ll find a dark grey interior with contrasting yellow inserts on the driver’s seat. Gordon Murray’s signature is hand-painted on the body, and you get a spare, LM-style exhaust and a GT R steering wheel along with the deal.

This is the closest thing to a new McLaren F1 in existence, and it’s up for sale at specialist dealer Tom Hartley Jnr. It’s listed - as you’d probably expect - as ‘£POA’, but this will almost certainly become the most expensive F1 ever sold, exceeding the current record of $15.62 million.

All of this makes us a little sad. The McLaren F1 is one of the greatest driving machines ever built, and one of the 64 produced has sat for most of its 20 years on Planet Earth doing nothing. Never turning a wheel in anger. Not once hitting the 7500rpm red line of its BMW-derived V12.

There is of course hope that the next owner decides “screw that” and uses this car in a way that’s fit and proper, but we can’t help but assume its factory fresh condition will continue to be preserved.

Any super rich people out there want to prove us wrong?

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Original owner is the dumbest and/or most patient self controlling person in the world.

Why don’t we crowdfund it as Alex’s next car?

I think Ron Dennis’s McLaren F1 has less mileage than that but it does get driven…..every year to the MOT station and back lol.

Technically, the first owner maybe never even started the engine. Wth are you buying a McLaren F1 for if you don’t drive it, much less start it’s engine? A waste of money. Probably some rich “prince” who was building a car collection or something.