Kevin Hines of McLaren Philadelphia is the only person in the US certified to work on the McLaren F1, one of the fastest, quickest, most powerful, and most expensive cars around. As the only factory-trained F1 technician in North America, he’s responsible for protecting, preserving, and maintaining this piece of automotive history.



He also has “the laptop” — a mid-1990s Compaq running custom DOS software created by McLaren when the F1 was new. This gray brick was, for many years, required to access the car’s engine control and body control modules. Today, McLaren uses a modern Windows computer running a software emulator for day-to-day computer maintenance. Hines keeps the vintage Compaq around just in case.

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