A vintage racer is on tap from the team at IXO.  Our first look at their pre-production 1:43 McLaren M6B GT was unveiled yesterday.  Detail and execution looks great for this tiny scale.  I’m sure this piece will resonate with fans of the McLaren marque.

About the McLaren M6B GT…  “This is a 1969 McLaren M6B GT with serial number M6 GT 50-17. This car is one of six M6B/GT’s built and the only one to have raced in period.  This chassis was the Trojan Prototype displayed at the London Auto Show in January 1969. Later it was sold to English racer David Prophet and bodied as a M6B GT Coupe and raced during the 1969 European season.  In 1970 Prophet sold the car to Bill Bradley Racing for the 1970 Interseries Series, which was the European equivalent to the CanAm series. It was rebodied as an M 12 Roadster and campaigned by Prophet in all of the Interseries races except Keimola where Leo Kinnunen drove it.

After the 1970 season Bradley racing offered the car for sale and was purchased, as a M6 GT Coupe street car, by Canadian Andre Fournier who used it to drive his children to school. Later Gilles St. Pierre of Quebec, Canada purchased the car for his collection where it remained until January 2006.”