The McLaren McL 6GT Is a Gorgeous Ode to the Marque’s Founding Ethos

In 1969, Bruce McLaren riffed on his young racing team’s success in the Can-Am motorsport series to design and develop a road car called the M6 GT. When asked where his ambitions lay, he replied, “a civilized version of one of our racing cars… some way down the line, I think it’s bound to happen. I hope it happens.”

The original plan for 25 street-legal M6 GTs was eventually altered to 50 examples due to FIA requirements, but production never came to fruition, derailed…