McLaren P1 GT Longtail announced by Lanzante

British Car restorer and McLaren specialist Lanzante has teased that it’s working on a McLaren P1 GT Longtail.

With only the caption ‘Coming Soon, McLaren P1 GT Longtail,’ the Instagram post gives little away except who its owner is.

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One of the Instagram accounts tagged by Lanzante in the post is speedy_gonzales999, a car collector who has remained largely anonymous despite garnering a following of over 15,000 Instagram users.

Speedy, as we’ll call him, is seemingly based in both the UK and Dubai and, among many other cars, owns a Singer Porsche and a McLaren P1.

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Speedy says the car will stay in the UK once it’s ready (he also reveals that the car is ‘almost there’ in a comment), and it seem that it’s a one off for now.

It’s not the first ‘Longtail’ version of a McLaren supercar that’s been created, the Woking carmaker built three McLaren F1 GTs in the late 1990s to homologate the F1 GTR racer, though the GT was meant to be a one-off.

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Nicknamed ‘Longtail’, after its track-bound sibling, it inspired the creation of the 675LT (no prizes for guessing what the ‘LT’ stands for) almost two decades later, which McLaren recently bestowed with a Gulf livery, in turn, inspired by the original GTR Longtail.

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Lanzante has also been involved in the creation of another P1-derived car, the P1 LM. It was the road-legal (and more extreme) version of the P1 GTR, which set the fastest time at the Goodwood Hill Climb in 2016.

It also boasts a Nürburgring lap time of just 6:43, with former IndyCar driver Kenny Bräck at the wheel.