Chris Harris talks cars with David Clark

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

Leisure, Comedy, Motoring, Classiccars, Chrisharris, Collectingcars, Cars, Automotive

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Chris Harris and Edward Lovett chat with David Clark; former Director of the McLaren F1 road and race car programmes, about his experiences at the wheel of one of the most ambitious projects in motoring. Chris gets excited at the thought of a very special development car and reveals his dream drive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Collecting Cars.
0:06.0	The Collecting Cars.com podcast with Chris Harris and Edward Lovett.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of the Collecting Cars podcast. Today, with me, my usual partner in crime ever love it and also David Clark who is
0:25.0	about as embedded in the world of old cars and old car racing as anyone on the
0:30.6	planet and for me most impressively was the man who back in the day
0:35.2	attempted to sell a car called the McLaren F1 and I'm partly got him here today
0:40.4	just to tell us all about an adventure but also a broader conversation
0:44.4	around old cars driving and the passion we have for those subjects.
0:48.0	David, welcome to Gerardo and Co.
0:51.0	Thank you very much.
0:52.0	Coffey Good? Yeah, very good. Thank you very much. Coffey good.
0:53.0	Yeah, very good.
0:54.0	Thank you. Max isn't.
0:55.0	Love it, yes.
0:56.0	So back in the early 90s, those of us that read the motory media heard about this car that Gordon Murray was designing the ultimate streetcar
1:06.4	and I remember seeing the first pictures of it to 92 93 the mules and then I remember
1:17.1	May's addition may 94's edition of car magazine when they drove it and the numbers even now just just trip off the tongue six 627,000 pounds or whatever it was, and then, and the power figures
1:26.6	and the acceleration.
1:28.7	How on earth did you sell them?
1:30.1	We were on the back of a global recession and suddenly you got this piece of unobtainium
1:35.0	that you got to try and sell. How did it work?
1:38.0	Yeah, I think a lot of it was that people didn't really understand the car or the price of it in those days.
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