Jay Leno introduces Gordon Murray and talks about his McLaren F1

This was filmed inside the auditorium at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena on July 17th, 2005 during their annual ArtCenter Car Classic show, where Professor Gordon Murray was invited to give the keynote address.

Now - Before you ask, I do not have the videos of Gordon's speech to share. This disappoints me more than you - I promise - and I also apologize for that. :-(

Gordon is a little more soft spoken than Jay, and my camera did not pick up most of what was said during his speech. Additionally, while trying to record the portion with Gordon, I had to change Memory Sticks three times due to length, as this was shot on a Sony Cybershot digital camera, and for some reason the second portion of his speech was corrupted on that memory stick and could not be recovered.

I remain hopeful that someday ArtCenter, who did make a professional recording of the entire speech will release it to the public. If you know someone there who can make this happen, please try to help! :-)

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Jay Leno
• McLaren F1
• ArtCenter
• Gordon Murray

[prodriver1]

McLaren Rocket?

[Peloton25]

@prodriver1 - the Light Car Company Rocket - another car that Gordon designed around the same time as the F1 which was produced by his friend Chris Craft. It is a two seat tandem open-wheeled and open-top car with the look of a mid-50s Formula One car almost.

It's powered by a 143hp 1000cc Yamaha motorcycle engine and has a unique transmission with 10 forward ratios provided through separate low and high final drive ratios. There were less than 50 produced.

[ladangelo202]

yeah its a sick car