SCX McLaren MP4/4

This SCX McLaren MP4/4 is in excellent condition, and is a faithful replica of the original SCX McLaren MP 4/4 that was only produced in very limited numbers in Spain only in 1990.

The following is an excerpt from the SLOTRACER.ONLINE website (https://slotracer.online/community/archive/index.php?thread-563.html)

In 1990 Exin Scalextric (Spain) released a model of the MP4/4 - it carried race number 11 which was the Prost version. Hoorah! A successful F1 car to race. A cracking model and highly competitive in its day. In fact, together with the same make's Ferrari F1/87 it was the mainstay of non-magnet club F1 racing for a very long time. During this period the Spanish and English firms, although separate entities, would often work together. They would swap bodies and each would then fit the wheels, motor, guide etc for their own country. So it was with the MP4/4, the bodies were sent to the U.K. and it was announced in the Scalextric catalogue #31 with a list number of C462. It was tampo printed rather than stickered as the Spanish ones were and carried Senna's #12. At this point things took a bizarre turn. The Spanish version was available for less than one year while the English version was never officially released at all and the bodies were (allegedly) either returned to Spain or destroyed. Now why would a sought after version of the most successful F1 car of all time be withdrawn from sale so soon? There are several theories about this but the most popular and credible one is that somebody forgot to ask McLaren's permission and/or neglected to pay the license fee. Exin were notoriously cavalier in this department and had a long history of sailing close to the wind. Exin were loath to junk the expensive moulds though so they just repainted it as three different, largely fictitious, Indy cars and retrieved their set up costs that way. 

The basis for this replica was a complete one of those fictitious INDY CARS that was in 'as new' condition when bought from a collector in Spain. This car was carefully stripped, re-sprayed and painted in the iconic MARLBORO colours and then decorated with an ORIGINAL SCX peel-and-stick decal sheet also imported from Spain. It comes with new trued tyres and new braids, and runs VERY well indeed.

This is a rare chance to get a well-made copy of a VERY RARE SCX / Scalextric icon - originals of this car (when they come up for sale...) easily sell for 65 pounds (R1 550) on eBay.

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