The World's Greatest McLaren Collection Is Up for Sale
As
seller Tom Hartley Jnr. states
, Ojjeh was pivotal in helping fund the McLaren F1, and the car is the centerpiece of the collection. It's the last of 106 McLaren F1s built in total, and it's finished in a shade of orange called Yquem, which McLaren later renamed Mansour Orange. It's a color McLaren kept exclusive to him. The rest of the collection consists of last-built examples of many special modern McLaren road cars, including the Sabre, Speedtail, Senna, Elva, P1, and what appears to be one of every LM and LT model.
Photo by: Tom Hartley Jnr
Not all are Mansour Orange, with the Senna in a bare-carbon, yellow, and green livery, and the 675LT Spider in bare carbon with orange accents. Most of the cars were never driven, either, with only the F1 having 1,810 km (1,125 miles) on its odometer, and the P1 GTR used at a handful of McLaren track days.
Ojjeh was actually a Ferrari collector at first, but he sold his collection when he helped found McLaren Automotive. It's hard to imagine a better collection of McLaren road cars, certainly outside of the company's collection of F1s. And it's easy to bet that there will be tons of people lining up for the chance to buy an F1 from the man who helped make it a reality.
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