MC Claren lola race car

[Rick Iverson]

The bargin here is if you buy at the advertized price, he will ship to the US.

[starkejt]

If anyone pays $100k for that, may it come with full blown AIDS.

[Steve Davis]

Looks like a 'specialty' Malibu Grand Prix car to me
Single 'rotor' CVT - looks a LOT like my 2 cycle golf cart ...

Steve, FV80

[Daniel Thompson]

The Canadian Snow Plow engine alone is worth $100k...

[TimW]

price notwithstanding, Lola did indeed design and manufacture the cars for the Malibu Grand Prix venues back in the day. It looks very similar to those cars (and there are more than one left so the rarity of this one is questionable...)

Tim

[Mark_Silverberg]

Definitely first generation Malibu Grand Prix Car - One of the nicest I have ever seen. I usually say these cars are worth about $1500 - but I think this one may be worth as much as $1700 because of the condition!

[KenT]

Man, Apexspeed rocks! Where else can you have people chime in and give lineage and value of an old Malibu Grand Prix car?

[Mark_Silverberg]

Well it isn't really rocket science - just about any thing with four wheels and assembled is worth $1500. Probably not much of a place to run it except maybe it would be allowed in SCCA Solo II. Basically it is a parade car at this point.

[Doug Carter]

This is fun... http://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/...07593DADBXF005



$100k. Bwahahahahah!

[starkejt]

Originally Posted by Doug Carter

$100k. Bwahahahahah!

So if I contact him and get him to post a classified ad here, will you ban yourself for making negative comments about the asking price?

[Beartrax]

Originally Posted by starkejt

If anyone pays $100k for that, may it come with full blown AIDS.

That's a bit extreme. Perhaps a lobotomy or a bib to catch the drool would be appropriate.

[Doug Carter]

Originally Posted by starkejt

So if I contact him and get him to post a classified ad here, will you ban yourself for making negative comments about the asking price?

Yes, if he posts it here for sale asking $100,000 for a $1,500 oversized go-kart, I will post the exact same thing again so that I can ban myself, then un-ban myself in a Roger Goodell-like overturn of authority.

[Brett Lane]

Wierd thing. There were two FF's at the Donington collection museum in the UK. One was a Van Diemen RF97 with two inch wide treaded tires that were about the size of this car.

At least that was what the sign said.

I know that history points out that English people were smaller in the past-horses and pigs too. But race cars too? The Lotus I saw must have been driven by a really big Scottish dude....

Nevermind

[Steve Demeter]

90 MPH

McLaren Lola ought to be a tip off that the seller does not know what he has.

I was thinking it might be a McLeagle like the one Gurney modified for the Can Am back in the day until I read other posts.

As a famous historian once said "You've got to be putting me on"

[starkejt]

Originally Posted by Doug Carter

Yes, if he posts it here for sale asking $100,000 for a $1,500 oversized go-kart, I will post the exact same thing again so that I can ban myself, then un-ban myself in a Roger Goodell-like overturn of authority.

You'll probably have to ban me as well, since the first derogatory, smart-ass comment will come from me, most likely within 2 minutes of the OP.

[ghickman]

There was a Malibu GP here in SoCal that ran these up till the mid 80's. They were sluggish turds.

Doubt they'll ever have any real value.....wait a minute that's what I said about my 76B back in 1982 when the flat bottom cars were nothing but garage dust collectors.

[Bill Bonow]

Maybe the car was built here?

[Gokart Mozart]

My god, the long-lost McLaren Lola Race CAR! <- said no one ever.

[Don Elzinga]

Originally Posted by Steve Davis

Looks like a 'specialty' Malibu Grand Prix car to me
Single 'rotor' CVT - looks a LOT like my 2 cycle golf cart ...

Steve, FV80

Actually that is a single rotor Wankel engine. Looks like the same Sachs unit that went in the early '70's Arctic Cat Panther. Not enough of a 'Cat geek to tell whether it's a 295 or a 303.

Don

[a. pettipas]

This thread is too silly...

[starkejt]

Says the man who just created a thread with three asterisks for a title containing nothing but a period.

[Kazis31]

I think you guys said just about everything there is to say about this ad.
Honestly i would be hesitant to pay $1'700 for it.
If McLaren and Lola really built this I'm sure no one up there is too proud of it.
Looks like bad home built to me.

[EACIII]

I read the ad and it is possible that the seller really thinks it is a valuable car. Wonder what he paid for it. Thre is a sucker borner not every day but every hour.


Ed

[RSR427]

I might have to add this gem to my car collection. The wife's gonna kill me, but it would look great next to my Lotus-Ferrari!

[normv]

I am guessing he brought it at this shanons auction, which indicates it was sold for $6000 http://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/...07593DADBXF005

Lola list it as a T506 on http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/history/type.htm but I don't think that justify's the extra 000 in the price, .

[fitfan]

i think its cool, i'd like to have one... the joking asking price not withstanding... even the 6k last sale price seems way high! would be fun. hot glue a fez hat on my helmet at an autox...

[Rick Kean]

"the car is an exact copy of the formula one open wheeler's with suspension chassis style...

absolutely fantastic"

bwahhh!

[DFR Dave Freitas]

I have a customer with two Malibu Grand Prix cars sitting up in his rafters. They are parked right next to his Offy Indycar engine...weird taste

[Beartrax]

A friend & I would occasionally spend some time at a Malibu Grand Prix when we were in college. Had I known I was driving a $100,000 car I would have been more careful!