Like Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme was a New Zealander. Born June 19, 1936, he had a fascination with driving his fathers construction company trucks. Many who knew him at this time said that he liked to drive without shoes because it gave him a better feel of the pedal. When he took up racing, this style earned him the nickname of "the barefoot boy from Te Puke". In 1960, Hulme followed fellow New Zealander Bruce McLaren in winning a local association's Driver to Europe award. Within the next five years, he would be partnered with Jack Brabham in Formula I racing and would back up Brabham's third world championship in 1966. He would score his world championship title in 1967. This was the same year that Indianapolis named him Rookie of the Year after his fourth place finish, and also the same year when McLaren asked him to join his Can-Am team. Denny got results with ant kind of car, but it was the big heavy 7 cars where he thrived. Both his large physique, built through years of work in his dad's construction company, and his great fascination with mechanical mechanisms, helped him to bring out the best in the high-powered big block sports cars. Hulme didn't always seem to be working hard. Often referred to by many as looking like a lazy old bear, he never missed a chance to take a nap atop a tool box or a stack of tires.
Denny officially retired from racing in 1974, but would never give up his love for the sport. He was at the wheel of a race car when he died of heart failure on October 4th 1992. This highly detailed/ limited edition replica is hand crafted after the M8A piloted to victory by Denny Hulme during the 1968 Las Vegas race giving him his third win of the season and the 1968 Can-Am Championship.
- ModelYear - 1968
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