Mclaren Ulster

[Ian Williams]

I get the impression that the Maclaren company wanted to rewrite history because they couldn't bear to sully their name by representing the great Bruce McLarens first race car as a rough but extremely effective home built 50's Austin seven special. Hence the sad over restored nonsense we see presented today, the same happened to his A7 workshop hack which was restored quite recently here in NZ albeit under instruction by the NZ McLaren trust rather than the company. The trust did the first restoration of Bruce's Ulster special which was closer to the cars origins than the later restoration carried out by the company. It is all the more sad when there are good clear period pictures of the car under construction and in competition.