1996 McLaren F1 GTR | Uncrate

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has spent decades quietly assembling one of the world’s great car collections, and its centerpiece may be the McLaren F1 GTR, the only one to leave the factory in its original livery. He bought chassis 10R in 1999, the first of nine cars built to 1996 specification: extended bodywork front and rear, a more aggressive front splitter, and a magnesium gearbox housing that shaved 38 kilograms off the car that won Le Mans the year before. It’s also one of only two short-tail GTR prototypes in existence, the other being chassis 01R, the car that took that outright Le Mans win in 1995. McLaren ran 10R through testing ahead of the 1996 race with David Brabham behind the wheel, then converted it for road use and sold it directly to Mason. Its scarlet-and-yellow paint, applied in-house at the factory, is the only non-customer livery ever worn by a GTR. The car is now going to auction, closing out a long run in which the fastest F1 GTR ever built did nothing but sit in one drummer’s garage.