My New McLaren Coffee Table

[jason.parker.86]

Hello!
Just thought I would share a picture of a new Coffee Table which I got as a gift for my Dad.



The block itself is from a 1985-1987 McLaren F1 (1.5 litre TAG Porsche). The top half is made from Aluminium and bottom half has some kinda Magnesium alloy.

Come with a COA with detailed history as to which races it was in and actually won the 1986 Austrian Grand Prix (With Alain Prost).

Must admit I was shocked to see that it competed in 3 seasons!

[Lca1443]

As far as cool goes, that is in the very category.

[Paul]

Wow, nice gift!

[jason.parker.86]

Yeah its certainly very unique and special! I never even knew Porsche powered McLaren in the 80s until I seen this.

[CMSMJ1]

So cool indeed.

[rfs]

How exactly did your dad acquire this race-winning F1 engine block? It must have been expensive!

[jason.parker.86]

No idea how it come about, some bloke had 7 blocks from that era sat in a store room somewhere. Some had history and others didn't. Luckily this one did, and come with the certificate from McLaren to verify its history!

[CyleB]

Can you get a picture from the top looking down???

[jason.parker.86]

Not the clearest picture but ill try get a better one when I get home:

[CyleB]

No thats great i just wanted to see what the bottom said... very nice piece enjoy

[jason.parker.86]

Yeah the guy who made it into a coffee table made some vinyl sheet that reflected the colour scheme of the car and logos from that era.

[N12ck]

its excellent, but dont you think its quite sad for the engine, an engine which has Won Formula One races is now a coffee table with a model car, poor engine, but great coffee table!

[mep]

Very nice table. Notice how the collar surrounds the engine on top view. Very nice.
It's not sad for the engine to end up like this. It's a great honor. It could just as good be melted down and an ordinary road engine casted from the metall.

[SiLo]

I want it now!

You should rebuild the engine into it's former glory.

[machin]

Sweet. I was considering something similar with my kitcar's first crossflow engine which is sat in my garage having decided to let a rod out the side at Llandow circuit. Not quite the same though!