Chris Harris talks Cars with Gordon Murray

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week, Chris Harris sits down with world-renowned automotive designer, Gordon Murray.

The pair discuss his complete career, from his early life in South Africa, designing Formula One cars at Brabham and McLaren through the '70s and '80s, and of course the legendary McLaren F1 and his new T.50 supercar.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Collecting Cars.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to the Collecting Cars.
0:07.0	podcast with Chris Harris. Hello and welcome to another. C
0:17.0	Cus dot com podcast with Chris Harris.
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to another collecting cars
0:16.0	podcast.
0:17.0	Sorry it's been a while, but our strategy has always been quality over quantity
0:21.0	and I'm glad to say that we're fulfilling that role today because I'm here
0:24.9	at Gordon Murray Automotive to see his new T50 supercar but also to talk to him not only
0:31.8	about that project but his fascinating life around
0:36.0	racing cars and road cars because let's not forget this is the man that built
0:40.5	World Championship F1 cars that were driven by the lights of PK and of course Etencena but he was the
0:48.0	father of I think the most famous revered super car of them all the one that's still the rubric for everyone
0:53.7	that's making such vehicles the McLaren F1 and he's back with a new car the T50.
0:58.7	Gordon that was a long interview sorry a long introduction because you've done so much I'm sitting in your building which is
1:04.8	amazing for me because I drive past this on the way to my day job the whole time and it's
1:08.6	always empty I always think when's it going to kick off but it's kicking off now
1:11.8	isn't it with your T-50?
1:13.4	Yeah we're right here yes we actually we had an event in this building in November 2017 to
1:19.6	celebrate 50 years of car design and now we're back for real with T50. I've just seen
1:27.6	the vehicle it's embargoed until was it the sixth? Fourth. Fourth.
1:31.1	Well this won't go out before then, so it doesn't matter.
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