In honor of what would have been Bruce McLaren's 85th birthday, we look back at the M6GT, the first McLaren road car that never happened.
In early 1970, he prepared a prototype merging one of the empty M6 GT bodies with a stock M6B chassis and a Bartz-tuned Chevrolet engine. Registered OBH 500H, Bruce's personal ride had an estimated top speed of 165 mph, and some quirky features, like manually operated lights that were raised and lowered using finger holes in the leading edge of the pods.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. While Trojan Cars, builders of McLaren's racing machines released a statement that they might market a road-going version of the MGBGT, the project got shelved forever on June 2, 1970, when Bruce McLaren died after hitting a bunker that was used as a flag station at the Goodwood Circuit while testing his M8D Can Am prototype. It wasn't driver error. The rear bodywork came off mid-corner, the car stopped producing sufficient downforce, and from that point on, he became a passenger.
March 1970: Bruce McLaren sits on the wheel of his McLaren-Ford M14A before the start of the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in Kent.Bruce McLaren only managed to put 1900 miles on the clock of his M6GT, and Trojan Cars never got to build a further 249. Four years later,"The wildest road car."
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