McLaren McL 6GT meets Bruce McLaren’s 1969 M6GT | Jay Leno's Garage
By Jay Leno's Garage
Jay gets behind the wheel of Bruce McLaren's personal 1969 M6GT, the race car he built for the street, and gets a first look at the car it inspired: the McL 6GT, McLaren's first manual transmission car since the F1. In 1967 Bruce McLaren's orange M6A won five of six Can-Am races. His next idea was to put that car on the road. The M6GT was the result: a 5.7 liter Chevy 350 V8 making about 370 horsepower, a ZF transaxle, and a car that weighed around 800 kilos. It was a four second car in 1969. Bruce drove it to the races and to pick up groceries. He planned to build a few hundred. When he was…
