These green body panels once adorned Michael Fux’s McLaren P1. Fux sent his P1 back to McLaren to have the green carbon parts fitted. Last year, the car was sold without the original panels for $1.87 million. More than 13 years on from its launch, the McLaren P1 remains arguably the most evocative thing the company has built since its 2010 rebirth. The British brand made just 375 of them, which means tracking one down takes patience, deep pockets, and a fair bit of luck. Short of the real thing, though, there’s now an unusual consolation prize: a spare set of P1 body panels. The genuine articles are currently live on Bring a Trailer, and they carry an interesting backstory. They were originally bolted to the P1 owned by American businessman Michael Fux. A couple of years after the car launched, McLaren began inviting owners to ship their cars back to Woking to be refitted with exposed colored carbon fiber. Read: This Is The World’s Only McLaren P1 Finished In Satin Camo Green Fux took the company up on it, sending his P1 in to be reclad entirely in green carbon. That left a complete spare set of panels behind, painted green and trimmed with a few patches of matching green carbon. Obviously, the panels don’t have much use for someone who doesn’t actually own a P1, unless they want to display them as an expensive piece of art. Where Is Fux’s P1 Now? The story of Fux’s McLaren P1 is quite interesting. His car was chassis #002, making it the first customer-spec example built, as McLaren itself retained #001. After being flown back to McLaren and outfitted with its green carbon body, the car was auctioned off during Monterey Car Week in 2016, selling for a rather disappointing $1.85 million, perhaps due to the questionable specification. Bring a Trailer Fast forward to August 2024, and the hypercar re-emerged, again listed for auction during Monterey Car Week, but this time failing to sell. It was then listed on Bring a Trailer in September 2025 and ultimately traded hands for $1.87 million. For whatever reason, prices of used P1s are still generally hovering between the $1.5 – $2 million mark, as they have been for the past decade. By comparison, most LaFerraris are selling for over $5 million, and many Porsche 918s are trading hands for between $3-4 million, or more. According to Silver Arrow Cars, which is selling these P1 panels, it chose not to include them in the auction of Fux’s car last year, betting that offloading the spares separately would help claw back some of the money it lost on the sale. Michael Fux’s McLaren P1 with green carbon fiber / Photos Bring a Trailer
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