The M6GT was built to evaluate the feasibility of building a McLaren street car. McLaren's car was built by the team from Trojan chassis M12-60-01. McLaren drove the car to understand the problems associated with driving a Can Am car on the street. After McLaren's death, the car went to the Auckland Museum of Transportation possibly owned by Denny Hulme. After another owner, it was sold to Harry Matthews. Fred Phillips in Calgary bought the car for his collection in the late 2000's. The car now resides with a private collector in Chicago.
50-17 GT
The David Prophet car was built by Trojan on M12 chassis M12-60-15 . It was the only M6GT to be raced in period. Prophet converted the car to M12 roadster configuration. After racing it as an M12, he converted it back to a coupe. The car went to Canada to Andre Fournier. The car was later purchased by Gils St. Pierre who owned it for many years. The car was sold at auction to Jim Edwards. He currently vintage races the car.
David Prophet
Bill Bradley
Andrea Fournier
Gil St. Pierre
Jim Edwards
GT-1969E
Trojan built a second car and used it as a show car. It was sent to the US and sold by Kirk F. White to Ted Peterson. While he owned the car it appeared in several magazines including ROAD & TRACK where it was on the cover. The car was sold to Fred Knoop in 1974 where it was vintage raced and driven on the street. The car was wrecked while owned by Epstein and purchased wrecked by Roger Pitts. It is currently under restoration.
Trojan
Ted Peterson
Fred Knoop
Kerry Payne
Jack Flarady
Epstein
Roger Pitts
CONVERSIONS
Several original McLaren M6B's and M12's have been converted to M6GT's. Only the two cars below still remain as coupes.
This is the M6GT built from M12 60-14. (see M12 page)
Holman-Moody (bare chassis)
Great Western Champagne
Pete Sherman
Dave Pearson
Larry Crossan (1977) The car was converted to coupe by Larry Crossen
Mike Shoen (1986-1987)
Stephen Forristall
Karl Gnadinger, CH (1989)
France (2014) The car was on display at McLaren International in 2014.
This conversion was finished in 1980. It was built from the M6B chassis that Bruce McLaren gave to Vandergriff (50-09). (See history of M6B 50-09) Leonard Janke ran the car in SCCA and two Can Am races.