Youtuber Ed Bolian has been searching down El Chapo’s McLaren F1 for over three years. The automobile in query is chassis quantity 39. For context, McLaren solely produced 106 F1s, together with its numerous particular editions. Bolian started by digging up the automobile’s possession historical past, which revealed that it was initially constructed for then-McLaren CEO Ron Dennis. Nevertheless, after his spouse rejected the automobile on account of its brown exterior and pink inside topped with gold wheels, he ordered a second automobile completed in silver.
Understandably, there is a hole within the automobile’s historical past, however ultimately, it results in Mexico, particularly within the fingers of the Sinaloa cartel. Ed tracked the automobile because it modified fingers, however the path went chilly as its presumed proprietor died in a gunfight. That is the place the story left off final 12 months.
In a brand new replace embedded above, Ed reveals that the automobile is just not even in Mexico. In accordance with Bolian, the automobile was actively being pushed round by a member of the cartel when he bought shot. Nevertheless, the car was stolen throughout this assault and is now in Panama or Colombia. After all, it goes with out saying that verifying these claims is almost not possible, particularly as nobody has seen the automobile in many years.
Though Ed acknowledges that the hunt is formally over, he does point out that he is nonetheless prepared to buy or commerce a unique automobile for the notorious F1. However, if these latest developments are true, the probabilities he’ll ever hear again are slim to none.
