A race car driven to victory by both Bruce McLaren and Roger Penske has just sold at auction.
Although McLaren history is largely remembered as starting with the M2B, the team's first Formula 1 race car which made its debut at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren was already established as a racing outfit three years prior competing with cars from other constructors.
Over the weekend, a car billed as the first race car to be fielded by McLaren went under the hammer at a Bonhams auction coinciding withThe car was recently discovered in storage in South America, with all that remained basically being a rusted chassis, a few body panels, and the last engine it ran, an Oldsmobile 3.9-liter V-8. It started out life in 1961 as a Cooper T35P F1 car powered by a Climax engine and was modified six times before reaching its current form.
It was sold to Roger Penske the following year who had it rebuilt with a more powerful engine, at which point the car became known as the Zerex Special. Penske took it to wins at Riverside and Laguna Seca in the U.S. and at Brands Hatch in the U.K. It was then sold to McLaren in the early part of 1964.
McLaren would continue to modify the car and score wins until the team sold the car in 1965 to Texan amateur racer Dave Morgan. He then sold it to a Venezuelan amateur racer in 1967, at which point it went off the radar. Given the amount spent on the car by its current owner, we suspect a full restoration, likely to the condition the car was in when raced by McLaren, will soon be in order.
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