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Monty213 - Solved: 1968 McBegg
« on: August 26, 2017, 01:38:38 PM »
Fellow Autopuzzlers, for a point please tell me the name and year of this race car, and what it's based on.

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Re: Monty213
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2017, 04:32:09 AM »
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Re: Monty213
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2017, 11:38:52 AM »
Car from New Zealand?

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Re: Monty213
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2017, 02:22:11 PM »
Yes, it's from New Zealand! I suspect that if you have been able to pinpoint that it must mean you know the car...
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Re: Monty213
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2017, 10:53:17 AM »
1968 McBegg with a McLaren M1B chassis

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Re: Monty213
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2017, 10:11:55 AM »
Yes! mekubb takes the point. This is the fourth time a racecar by George Begg has appeared on AP.
From a NZ news website:

"The original McBegg sports car was the eighth of 18 cars built by Drummond's George Begg. Begg had worked for Kiwi motor racing icon Bruce McLaren at the McLaren factory in England and packed a container with bits and sent it to [Begg's hometown of] Drummond where it arrived on December 23, 1968.
Included in the container were a chassis from the 1966 McLaren M1B and the body from Denny Hulme's M6 Can-Am car.
Rebuilt at Drummond as a McBegg, the car ran successfully throughout New Zealand for several years with a number of drivers, including Southlander Barry Keen and West Otago's Laurence Brownlie, who broke a land speed record in it.
After it fell into disrepair, Walter Willmott, now resident in Southland, who was at McLaren when the original M1B and M6 cars were built, decided to restore the vehicle as it was the missing link of the Begg cars."
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