Mararn – New Zealand’s only production McLaren
I met Andrew Farrow in the little South Island town of Rangiora, where he introduced me to the then current version of his constantly changing car collection. He owns the Eyrewell Forest Motor Company. Not having a forecourt, his sales generally occur online where he buys and sells cars to add to his fluid collection. An example of what I mean by fluid is the F-Type Jaguar which he purchased recently and enjoys driving. It is advertised on his website and will eventually sell, at which point it will be replaced by another exotic he would like to own such as a Ferrari 599. Consequently, his collection is always in a state of flux, and he never has time to get bored with a particular car as another car will always be somewhere on the horizon.
I had gone to see one of the more permanent cars in his collection and one of his favourites, a McLaren M6GT replica. “It’s not the fastest or most expensive car here,” says Andrew, “but it does get the most attention.”
Anybody who knows about cars will instantly recognise this car as being a replica of the McLaren M6GT, conceived by Bruce McLaren as having the potential to be the first McLaren road-legal supercar, conceived decades before the McLaren F1.
