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1965 Elva M1A Mclaren

1965 Elva M1A Mclaren in Spinout, Movie, 1966

Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin:

1965 Elva M1A Mclaren

Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

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vilero ◊ 2010-02-12 10:47	How do we list this one? As it is now 1965 Mclaren M1A Elva or as new make Mclaren-Elva, model M1A? INFO about it here -- Last edit: 2010-02-12 10:47:56
antp ◊ 2010-02-12 13:56	Or with Elva as make, as we have few? Or is this something else?
Beans ◊ 2012-01-16 21:44	McLaren Mk 1 or Mk1A
dsl ◊ 2019-12-26 21:42	Same car, entered with different name. We seem to have a few of these M1/M1A/M1B/M1C split between Elva and McLaren makes without clear reasons how the split is made. Maybe A Big Decision needed to put them all together under one make?? I favour McLaren as make, M1(x) Elva as model. Comments??
Gallivant ◊ 2022-04-25 04:56	The car has now been heralded as having been driven by Graham Hill and Elvis Presley, designed by Bruce Mclaren and presented by Lord Charles March. That is all written on the right hand door, as follows "Original drivers: Graham Hill, Elvis Presley. At bottom (Created by) Bruce Mc Laren ( and now presented by) Lord Charles March. Link to "scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net" -- Last edit: 2022-04-25 05:00:17
Exiv96 ◊ 2025-10-06 00:17	dsl wrote Same car, entered with different name. We seem to have a few of these M1/M1A/M1B/M1C split between Elva and McLaren makes without clear reasons how the split is made. Maybe A Big Decision needed to put them all together under one make?? I favour McLaren as make, M1(x) Elva as model. Comments?? I'd rather put them as McLaren-Elva (brand). I've found this explanation here: https://www.historicautopro.com/1967-mclaren-elva "The McLaren sports-racing car line had been founded in 1964 by purchase of what had been Roger Penske’s highly modified Cooper-Climax ‘ZereX Special’ into which was installed a lightweight medium-capacity Oldsmobile V8 engine. An in-house replacement chassis was then developed, which emerged as the McLaren-Oldsmobile M1A design and for 1965 McLaren signed a manufacturing agreement with industrialist Peter Agg’s Trojan company which had just acquired Elva Cars Ltd. While the McLaren works team would develop original new models and campaign its own works cars, Trojan would put each design into series-production for customer sale under the McLaren-Elva name. This arrangement worked very well (...). The new M1B model was launched in September 1965, and through 1966 the works M1Bs in brick-red livery excelled in British events and starred in a tremendous rivalry with the big Lolas. The M1B was put into production for customer sale by Trojan, and sold in the all-important American market as the ‘McLaren-Elva Mark 2’. For 1967, while the Gulf-sponsored McLaren works team developed brand-new new monocoque-chassised M6A cars with which Bruce himself and team-mate Denny Hulme took the CanAm Championship title, a further updated version of the M1B emerged for customer sale, promoted in the US as the ‘McLaren-Elva Mark 3’."

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