One of motor racing’s most iconic ‘long lost’ classic sportsracing cars was unpacked in June, on its return to British soil for the first time in 57 long years. The car is the late, great Bruce McLaren’s 1964 Cooper-Zerex- Oldsmobile – nicknamed in period ‘The Jolly Green Giant’ and the first sports car to carry his legendary Kiwi team badge.
This car is the taproot of the entire McLaren marque. After some 50 years inactive and dismantled in obscure South American storage, it will be offered for sale ‘as is’ by Bonhams’ auctioneers at the Goodwood Revival Meeting.
For discerning 1960s racing-car hunters this Cooper-Zerex-Oldsmobile is something of a Holy Grail, having effectively vanished after achieving tremendous premier-level success, and not only in McLaren’s hands. In progressively developing form it was
