Shmee explains the El Chapo McLaren F1 license plate mystery
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I think the Harrods gtr is running a fake plate so El Chapo would get the parking tickets.
A parking ticket or lead?
Oxford Street is a bugger to park on to be fair
@@jamesdean8785 and the Harrods car park is extortionate!!!
The combined forces of the FBI, police and the military power of several countries never managed to stop El Chapo's reign until the magnitude of his parking ticket debt gave authorities the moral fortitude to bring him down.
@@robmanueb. 🤣😂
I’ve already solved the number plate mystery...
It’s right behind shmee’s head!
didn't even notice
If you watch shmee's video you see that he gifted that plate to ed
It appears to be missing a J at the end. the kerning of the plate in the photos of the p1gtr, it looks like the J is right next to the p without any extra space between them. I think if it were the plate some amount of the J would be visible. Possibly a reproduced plate or a plate reading P440 CP. Knowing Ed's through his story-telling there really isn't any way to be sure what that plate actually is until he tells us.
@@GageLambert so the front in visible in that clip but the rear is still a partial view. You're probably, interestingly the p1 gtr looked like it always ran with a decal instead of a plate.
In the US only 15 states have mandatory vehicle inspections.. watching this I was curious and went to Google for the answer. I find it interesting that their entire country requires that but there's nothing for that here at a federal level. I wonder if he knows?
The owner of that McLaren is probably not happy with these videos.
You can say that again ;)
If they are aware of them then no doubt! I'm not sure if a couple of HPI checks would be sufficient proof but I'm pretty convinced that P440 CPJ has no business being on that car! If you owned a non-road legal F1 GTR and wanted to use it on the street how perfect would it be if you knew of a road legal F1 that was previously British registered that had little chance of ever being legitimately registered in a first world country? Slap that plate on your GTR, it comes up against a McLarenF1 and the chances of getting caught out are very slim. Perfect!
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash It turned out to be the heist of the decade. No traffic warden could argue against it.
I'm sure the owner can't care less about this.
If whoever has that McLaren F1 GTR, sure it has money for a bunch of more stuff and to solve problems.
The hype will probably put up the value.
"You wouldn't move a plate from one car to another of the same car... in any normal world", but this is related to a Mexican cartel, not really any normal world
Also cloning. Which happens a lot in the UK.
Where im at the plates are registered to the owner. I get a new car my plate comes off old and goes on new
Can we all agree, Shmee did everything BUT explain the mystery. Pure waffle.
@@vxr3164 What he did, very politely and to avoid litigation was say the Harrods GTR is infact a clone of the one that went to Mexico.
@@frankindustries356 Pretty much this, in the UK you can apply for a logbook for any car, if the register owner does not reply, than you'll receive said logbook in your name. Also we don't get issued plates here, we have to buy them online, halfords, or whatnot, so it's an easy process and probably what is going on here.
I'm very interested in these elchapo f1 stories
I'm very interested in your interestation
@@SangheiliSpecOp I’m very interested in your interest of other people’s interests
@@LuhtyIer I'm very interested in the interest of any interest to ever interest the place that is the world of interest
@@LuhtyIer I’m very interested in your interest in replying to other people who are interested in other people’s interests.
@@LuhtyIer I’m just gonna say, I’m fucking loving this! Keep at it boys 🍻
Sounds more likely someone knew the original P440 CPJ car was leaving the uk so knew that no one would contest it if they then used that to get a none road legal one on the road.
I would have to agree . The same thing happens with cars shipped out of country , Have a wrecked car repaired and re titled under the old log book now has a clean title.
I think you are spot on
"registration laundering"
100% as there is no export marker to the car, not likely anyone really knew what a V5 looks like back then... someone must be feel8ng very uncomfortable at the moment, especially with such a high profile car.... bloody hell ....
@@matthewmason770 A filthy rich person connected to a drug cartel worth billions ? Who both own the same car , that would never happen.
I have a need for El Chapo F1 content. It's the story I didn't know I needed.
We need to see ED and Shmee go for a hunt for the f1 in mexico, repo style. It would be hillarious
They've gotta get car trek hooked up with Amazon prime and get it sponsored with armed security
It’s all hilarious until Ed Tavarish and Hoovie are all missing and assumed dead
Get Richard Rawlings to help out.
@@cesariojpn no thanks
Dont think their wives would approve of that adventure.
So the long and short of it is the Harrods car has been rung with the ID from a long missing f1. I bet the current owners of the Harrods F1 are fuming at all the attention currently being brought to this 🤣
Should have changed plates, and we wouldn't know
@@TheNeteiksu yep! Owner is probably working on it now. I guess the internet wasn't as active at the time so he didn't think it would show up.
@@user-xn2wh6is5k it looks like the car hasn't been used on the roads for a couple of years anyway.
I bet the owners off the F1 GTR Is piss now this guys aré burning that car to much i smell a law suit agains Ed bolian AND all this youtubers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The owner (until the last few years) was ex McLaren Cars Sales Director, so highly likely a) he sold the El Chapo car in the first place b) The Harrods car was quite possibly in the hands of McLaren when converted to a roadcar (it was owned by son of Harrods owner when racing) and thus the plate could have been transferred so you see on press cars (Porsche UK's 911s often carried same plates).
There were a couple of other early chassis which carried CPJ plates (I use to work on the F1 side). Not sure if they stayed on cars, which leads me back to being a plate owned by McLaren as a dealer/OEM
I am still hoping that Ed will find El Chapo's F1
And hopefully get it
Without risking his life
It’s not a matter of if it’s when. When someone who REALLY has control find outs Ed is REALLY trying to buy it, they are gonna take the money and run. Ed just has talked to the right guy yet. Time will work it’s Magic.
El Chapo never had an F1
@@bgf1lms843 I bely he said it was one of his drug runners
Plot twist Ed already purchased the Chapo F1 (plate behind Shmees shoulder) but is waiting for the statute of limitations to end (that and he is saving up 100k to buy a key from MacLaren)
That explains why they are releasing so many car trek videos
*Imagine the Mexican F1 owner showing up in the comments of this video...* 😋
Hes dead so I doubt it lol
@@tyscott1639 who told you
@@nakulpatel8002 Uhh lol watch the other videos. Thought this was known info
It was Chapos family member/general and he was killed when rival cartels opened fire on his SUV
Zed´s dead, baby...
If I could add some knowledge of my own: I understand that, when a car is exported, that registration number is automatically removed from the vehicle and is then able to be purchased and put on another vehicle if you had "associates" at the UK registry office (The DVLA). It's not possible, to my knowledge, to simply pick any series of numbers and letters you please that would make a genuine UK registration number and buy that from the DVLA. Therefore, the only way I can see that this registration number has been assigned to the R06 GTR is either: some strings have been pulled to allow this registration plate to be used again (though this poses the question of why this specific number when any number of private registration numbers could be attached to the vehicle), the registration number is assigned to R06 through an administrative error with the DVLA prior to the full computerization of their records, or the acquisition of the exported car's V5C, removing the plate to be put on retention (As Shmee describes in the video) and having the DVLA assign a "new" registration number to 039 which is then removed upon export. The fact the car is pictured wearing the UK registration plates is no benefit to the search. From the moment the car is logged as exported they are just pieces of plastic. When searching the MOT history on the vehicle online, you will only ever get records of the vehicle that it is assigned to at the time you search. There is no way to search for vehicle information for vehicles that have previously used that registration number and you won't find it online if the vehicle was exported before the modern systems were set up. The only people that might have the information about when and where that car went are the DVLA's historic records (which may have been destroyed by now due to not being needed), the import firm that handled the car in Texas, the US registration department that will have had some notification of the import on the way to Mexico (The DMV?), asking Ron Dennis about details of the sale of 039 or the company that made R06 road legal. The registration number is a "prefix" style plate so the "P" at the beginning of the registration plate denotes a time period for the plate (originally assigned to 039) being registered from 1st of August 1996 to 31st July 1997. The very earliest then that there would be any UK MOT test could be documented is 1st August 1999 (unless the vehicle had had a serious crash requiring a different test but that would've made news and be easier to trace). If the car was exported before a UK MOT was recorded then there will be less evidence of 039 existing in the UK. If it was a crime and I worked for the police then I'd be contacting the DVLA and discussing how/why the P440CPJ plate was reused. That would clarify if R06 has had a previous registration number, if indeed R06 is a legitimate road vehicle or fraud and that 039 was definitely never re-imported to become the same vehicle. One other detail that may be helpful is that the engine number is saved as part of the details of the vehicle so someone with access to the vehicle could compare the number to the digital records and check for a match. If they differ then you have more digging to do. There is a phenomenally slim chance that R06 has a combination of details from R06 and 039 to make it look like one road going vehicle. However, all the vehicle information required is protected heavily and those who release it unlawfully would face huge fines and a criminal record.
Well, that comment was quite extensive and protracted.
It was easier to put plates and documentation from 039 to R06 than to fully make it road legal. Look when 039 was exported and when R06 started convertion. If it’s before MOT for 039 than R06 is twin.
I forgot about the US angle. Wouldn't US Customs have a record of the car coming in, or was it a "grey" import?
@@cesariojpn there would still be a VIN related document hidden somewhere. That might be key in tracing the car but there’s no way of legally getting that info to my knowledge.
Your comment made more sense than what was said in the video though.
The short answer is that R06 have never been close to an MOT station, even less so registered. As far as the authorities is concerned it might as well be a wheelbarrow. How convenient then to print a new set of plates, with the same number as a car you know has left the country early. My guess is the plates are ther for moving in between shows. The owner of R06 will be nicked the second a copper decides to stop him and ask for the registration documents...
The guy with the gtr f1, had a good thing going, assuming the "identity" of the street car. Now we need to know what happens to the gtr car too.
They converted it and reregistered on a new plate, as the last vid stated.
If you want to find the El Chapo Mclaren just Call Nicolas Cage, he’ll find it in 60 seconds
Or less
i wonder if the feds are grilling el chapo on this car for shits and giggles?
Stfu
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
Cage will not be available, he has a new bride and other things to do in "less than 60 seconds".
Do you think we will ever find the El Chapo F1?
Man I hope so! I feel like you’ll grow so global eventually the drug lords will reach out with info on it
Bloody well hope so 😂
You should where could it go?
With enough time, money, and shrewd negotiating anything is possible!
We hope so
Never have I been so enthralled by a discussion of the inner workings of a foreign DMV, lol.
The title should be how to talk for 9 minutes without saying anything
That’s how most of these videos are
Can i get a summary then?
Haha
They're not for education, just entertainment. Otherwise, go watch Engineering Explained.
Was thinking the same thing
Man I can’t imagine seeing a F1 GTR on the road, I’d flip.
I'd flip just to see a f1
Seen one, and damn nearly flipped my bike trying to overtake, wheelie and give a thumbs up at the same time! After all, not often seen, even in the U.K.
True
There's one in Chicago that comes out 2 or 3 times a year and it's like the second coming everytime.
Mate I lost my shit when I saw a p1, but not any p1, but the p1 press car P1 00V, that clarkson hammond, Chris harris pretty much any reviewer drove.
So the Harrods Maclaren GTR is moody....reckon you've uncovered a little bit of up market Car Ringing !
Or a "replica" built from a stash of parts when the racing teams cleaned it their workshops out?
A 'race' body, fitted with factory parts, and a a new identity somehow 😀😂🤣
Stranger things have happened
@@Craig-wp3pz yeah a Ringer
Ed, just reveal the F1 in your basement already. We all know you found it.
rumor has it, it sits across his whiskey bar that you have to be invited to see lmaoo
@@giovannimosquera9203 I heard that it *IS* his whiskey bar.
The last 2 letters show where the car is registered in this type of number plate.
For example In this case it would be PJ which relates to Reading which is near McLaren so makes sense
Very good find
I'm surprised Shmee didnt know that, its no secret, just exactly the same as the older plates worked.
@@MiniPerformance yer exactly
@freepieanchipsgarage I didnt think the new system was more comprehensive, i thought it was less so? (not that i've had a new car!!!) eg most stuff up here now has a PX (preston?) prefix whereas the old plates (the real old ones) had AO, EC,HH, RM which were all areas of cumbria, registration offices I suppose?
Im aware of several garages selling new cars with a certain last two on the reg at around that time.. a lot of cars locally from specific manufacturers having the same last two.. VW cars from south Hereford garages had CJ and VJ locally from memory
I love how you have the license plate in the background !! Keep up the good work!
When Ed does find the F1, there better be an hour long episode! Looking forward to it. 😉
I love the touch of the F1’s license plate in the background
Something is going on with that extra reg Shmee shows, M505 YRN. The govt checker says it's a yellow F1 but was first registered in August 2020, not late 1994 or early 1995 which is when M reg was active for new cars. That only happens when a car has been originally purchased with a personal plate assigned to it from day 1, the DVLA never generate a number plate for the car at that time. It's only when the personal plate is removed from the car (sold or transferred to another) that an age-related number plate is generated for it. I've done this to two of my cars that I bought from my dad who had put his personal plate on it when he first ordered them. My guess is the new reg number is a car that has had it's personal plate taken off it and there has been an error in inputting the chassis number. Both reg numbers are active on the DVLA database so it's highly likely they are two different cars but for one thing: the MOT database only has one MOT result for M505 YRN. If it had been on a personal plate previously then it would automatically be linked to those previous tests, certainly all of my cars that have had plate changes are.
MY hunch is the Harrod's car is on P440 CPJ incorrectly, having assumed the identity for some reason. Now these videos are highlighting the story the owner has now put it on a different, new, registration as a new registration via the SVA system normally used by kit cars and anything that's heavily modified. Normally this would generate a Q plate (not date-specific and a hit to a car's value) but I presume the owner can prove the car was manufactured on X date by Y company so qualifies for a M plate. Either way something is not right with the story!
I love the continuation of this story, great video as usual!
I feel like if UK authorities see this series, they’re going to make the GTR come in for an inspection.
He would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for these meddling vids.
last time i was this early shmee still had his blue LT
I don’t know why I’m so invested in this case
Is a verry intresting story yo bad ed di not get More info from the guy he SAys Is a scamer 🤦🤨
That dude probably khow were the car Is
Every single video of this car is so anticipated even when we don’t know when or if another one will come out again. Thank you for more on this car, I hope you someday come across it first hand and have an opportunity to make a shrewd offer on it and meet him right in the middle ( at your first offer. )
If you look in the background you’ll know it was Ed this whole time 🤣
2:00 “you couldn’t possibly have the same number plate...”
Look behind you Shmee... 👀
You can get those plates for 20 quid, they are most probably gift from Shmee.
Love that Ed put the plate in the background of this video!
The answer to the plate is most likely much more simple than it appears. I would say given similar experiences that the plate P440 CPJ was a plate retained by Mclaren which was used to export the car from the UK and into the US/Mexico for the MRN documents etc. Once the car had arrived in its end destination the car should have been re registered but given its owners that never happened and the plate stayed on the car. Mclaren retained the number plate and V5 registration document and given Mr Clark was former Mclaren Cars Sales acquired the plate/registration from them for 06R in order to avoid a type approval and IVA test issues. This could be why Mclaren gave a high price for a new set of keys for the car to stop it coming to light and that if there is no registration documents the car cant legally be exported from the country.
"It's behind you" something the uk subscribers might get
My favorite ongoing story. I’m pulling for you!
Thanks!
So the harrods F1 GTR is a ringer.
Got my "This can be red" shirt yesterday! Love it!
Ed, we want an interview with the guy who drives the new Koenigsegg around Marietta Georgia please:)
Spoiler alert.
Posted a video of the Koenigsegg Regera in action I took last week
Lol thanks for the vid
Keep this series coming it’s do damn interesting
I'm liking the plate over shmees left shoulder 😂😂
Clarkson has El Chapo's Mclaren F1.
Imagine when a video titled I found it is uploaded
My theory, original owner sold the car to the drug dealer el chapo, got double the pay and used the extra money to buy another mclaran f1, which is the harrods one, subseqeuntly hiding the purchase and "duplicating the car". By the time everyone realised it was too late and the harrods car had gone through alot of changes.
It was said in Sinaloa the F1 was a gift and/or payment for a major shipment of coke. My theory is the plate was kept or taken back by the UK fella because it was registered to them anyway. So the UK registered owner may be the same one who was importing ton quantities of coke into the UK in partnership with the Sinaloa group.
I live in the UK, and understand the UK registration process reasonably well, and that was a particularly poor description of of the whole process works.
The interesting point for me was the slight inference that the Harrods car is displaying a registration plate that perhaps it shouldn't be - but without getting very close and checking the VIN tag of that vehicle it would be hard to prove. A vehicle VIN is tied to a Reg number, and in this case that Reg number appears to still be allocated to the El Chapo car - so how car the Harrods car be legally displaying it?
The vin of the Harrods car is thought to be known, but not confirmed.
It can be displayed illegally quite easily. Only a couple of screws and the occasional back hander. They probably have a bent MOT man and he makes the paperwork all add up.
Unless it was stopped and the vin checked no one would be any the wiser. It wasn't until Ed started talking about it that anyone had any idea about it.
I bet there are loads of high end cloned cars about.
@@marcuscoquer5958 This! I don’t get what’s hard to work out? Make a car that you have a v5 for vanish, use said v5 and subseqent vin on your ringer. I bet that harrods car has the right vin on it for the v5 if you got up close, but i’d wage that it didn’t when it left the factory. Nobody who’s seriously cloning any car, let alone one worth millions, doesnt at least make the car vin match the source v5. As long as the original car never surfaces, mr harrods will be fine....
@@Kyleashdown13 I wonder if the engine numbers add up?
As soon as you buy the el chapo car, Netflix is going to come trying to make a docuseries on all this lol
One of the most humble guys in the automotive industry. Well, also one of the knowledgeable guys as well.
This is like when your favourite two shows make a cross over episode. This makes me so happy!!!
someone take one for the team and go to Sinaloa
Shmee is one of the all time favorite story teller
Im from the uk and a vehicle MOT tester. I still have no idea why these two cars have the same plate. If the vin on the gtr doesn't correspond to the paper work it should have been flagged up and amended by whomever has been testing it
Started this video without realizing it was Shmee .. turned it off immediately!
So cool with the plate in the background, and the video shows again that Tim is one of the smartest people in the car business.
The plates were a gift to Ed from Shmee. They’ve been there for a few episodes
@@Nick210 I know, im not new on UA-cam
We all need to come together and solve this!
Watched it twice and I’m still confused 😂
The harrods car is not street legal, so they put the plates from the El Chapo McLaren on it so they could drive it on the roads. This is why the VIN didn't match the registration when it sold.
Yeah I can never listen to this dude for more than like 1 minute without getting bored
keep watching, maybe your ears will finally open after the 7th time
@@Thatguy55595 yeah... I'd rather listen to some boring car guy who buys cars that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars regularly instead of reading comments on some nobody on the internet who has been attention span of dirt
Love how they have there own plate printed off and in the background of the video
I love that SAME numberplate is hanging in background :D
the plate is behind him!!
One of the things that the dvla does, for a few reasons, is keep a plate number off any sale lists when not classed as a cherished plate.
A cherished plate is what Shmee mentioned being a significant looking number.
When I had a car that the last owner had a cherished/personal plate on, when I got the car DVLA assigned the same plate that it had been registered with originally when new. They actually do this so they only need to update one database at a time! The plate will only go back to the system when the vin is reported as scrapped.
When the el chapo McLaren left then uk the reg would have been either deregistered and the plate reg number put aside.
Because of the law about putting newer plates on older cars to hide age, when you get a car registered they try to give you an age related plate, so there’s a good chance that the records showed that mclaren had that reg number range at the time the race GTR was manufactured and that reg number was available and gave it to McLaren.
It was probably a mistake at dvla who assumed it was the same car and the el chapo car just never had the plates taken off in Mexico.
The numbers do actually mean something, on that car the P means 2nd half of 96 or 1st half of 97, the 3 digits are the consecutive number starting at 1 and the last 2 letters are the area. It’s worth noting that I would assume McLaren themselves would have registered these cars themselves and DVLA tend to give car companies and dealers a range so the may have had p400-p600 to assign with those 3 digits. This means that even if the gtr was registered in say 2010 but made in 1996 then it would get a plate from 96.
I think the answer lies more in the following: If you check Vehicle Enquiry Service (on the UK gov site) P440 CPJ had a new V5 (logbook) issued on September 10th 2020. M505YRN (which has the correct VIN R06 according to the HPI data) was newly registered with the DVLA in August of 2020 with a new V5 issued on the 25th September 2020.
So it would appear that the Harrods car had the wrong plate on (i.e. not matching the VIN) and it has now been re-issued with the M505 YRN, which is a standard DVLA issued registration.
Why they had the same plate in the first place is a mystery but I wouldn't be surprised if the Harrods car now starts wearing M505 YRN.
It could be that the Harrods car had the P440 CPJ as the El Chapo car left the country and it was quite easy back then to get a replacement V5 and use it on the same make and model of car - it would only be a problem if the car got inspected and found to have the wrong VIN, they new it was never coming back so have 'adopted' it ever since as it was an easy way to road register a GTR, and it may be that they have now put R06 through an IVA test to get it registered legitimately since all of this information is coming out regarding the fact it has the wrong plate.
That P440 CPJ license plate is sitting behind him on the wall... did Ed get an F1?!?!
Interesting that plate being discussed, was sitting in the background!!! Nice one SHMEE!! 👌
simple way of getting a GTR on the road before you could like today
Isn’t that the plate, right there behind him on the set?
Ok yes thank you
It’s worth mentioning the Harrods GTR (06R) finished 3rd in the 1995 24 hours of Le Mans. Possibly the most successful race car privately owned and driven on public roads.
Haha nice prop in the back there Ed!
I love that particular plate, P440 CPJ, hanging on the wall behind Shmee!
Did anyone else notice the easter egg in the background?
(The license plate on the right)
it has been there for a couple of episodes now
If you go to Shmee's channel an look for "VINwiki Ed Bought a FLOOD DAMAGED Ferrari 599!" you can see the gift of those plates...
The best thing of this video is that the P440 CPJ plate is hiding in the background.
So basically the Harrods F1 is a ringer 😂😂😂 Also the old number plates in the UK did have area codes, PJ was for Guildford/Surrey which would make sense?
Yeah, proper British car guy slip up from Shmee.
This is an awesome bit of info, but damn you guys are good story tellers. More details yet still no closer to the truth
Question would be then, how does the Harrods car get an MOT? Part of a MOT check is to make sure that the registration plate and VIN number match up. No match = no MOT and phone call to police about possible stolen car.
There is a P440 CPJ number plate in the background of the VINwiki videos.
The story of this McLaren could be a Netflix show in itself
Something not adding up + Shmee = Great content
Imagine el chapo turning up at your door for his plate back what do you do???
Interestingly, the log book system is also prone to mistakes - I factory ordered a AMG C63 in 2012, in the cheapest colour - obsidian black, the V5c described the car as "Gold" it was a massive PITA to get it changed because DVLA couldn't get their heads around the difference between correcting what was a clear admin error and recording the car as changing colour from Gold to Black.
Luckily, I had taken loads of photos of it on the day it was delivered to me and after I sent those, they finally got the message that the car never was (and hopefully never will be!) Gold in colour.
This story keeps getting better and better
I have been waiting for this story for a long time
I've seen similar instances with cheaper vehicles where they'd share plates on similar vehicles and stay in different countries but its pretty interesting to see on a McLaren.
Such an awaited episode
Love the channel
Keep rocking ❤️❤️❤️
I love how the same number plate is right behind shmee himself lol
I was waiting for the "Hey guys I'm Shmee" 😂🤣
Spotted the plate in the background too lol
I think the word you are looking for is ringer 👍
That was confusing and entertaining at the same time...
Anyone know why the back plate on uk cars is yellow and the front is white? Always been curious about this.
The only way to find out may be to inform the DVLA of the seeming cloning of a vehicle.
The Harrods car has been displaying that plate legally or illegally.
MOT runs out on the 7 of April. Who else bets no one will dare put another MOT on it ever again.
I doubt the owner will have a problem with getting it MOT'd. It's easy enough for normal people to buy MOTs let alone millionaires.
The GTR is currently being restored at Lanzante, so we will see in a few months time if it appears in public eye wearing P440 or its appropriate M reg it should have
I thought Tim said he hadn't driven any Mclarens before and i was like
Dude, you own 2.
I see Ed had both the white and yellow versions of P440 CPJ plates in the background.
El Chapo McLaren F1.... Couldn't click fast enough to watch lol
It was never El Chapos
How it could have happened is that the original owner of F1 P440CPJ bought another McLaren F1, had the plate transferred onto the newer car and then exported the "Old" F1 without having a new plate allocated to it as it had been reported/logged with the DVLA as being exported
I’ve been looking at David Clark’s Instagram (@mac_f1), he’s the guy who owned and drove the Harrods livery F1 GTR (until he sold it, I don’t know when this was). There’s a photo he uploaded in May 2020, the caption says it’s a photo taken in his garage in 2009 of cars that he owned. You can see the Harrods F1 GTR, an orange F1 next to it, and according to the caption there is a Fina livery F1 GTR in the garage but it just isn’t in the photo. The caption claims the orange car is an F1 LM but people (other F1 owners and just other enthusiasts) have pointed out in the comments that certain features of this orange ‘F1 LM’ mean that it’s actually a F1 GTR instead. From the shape of the intake on the bonnet, to the windscreen banner which actually reads ‘GTR’?! Surely the guy who owns three of the cars would know the difference and wouldn’t get them mistaken like that?! It’s all very strange
This should be a netflix series
A wild Shmee has appeared
I just noticed they moved the UA-cam plaque so the ceiling fan doesn't reflect off the surface during the video.
Must’ve been soo random seeing an f1 GTR in the wild lol
Shmee is actually incorrect - that era of registration does have a location designation and that is the last two letters - each area had a designated two letter identifier in this case - PJ was registered in Guildford, Surrey originally.
And the mystery of the El Chapo F1 evolves...