Lola T70 Mk3B Continuation
Discussion
And it's all new! What engine did this stunner carry Phil? Any news on choices, trim etc.?
Oeh, this is so amazing. Favourite racing car since I was a boy in the 70s: 917 and T70.
Edit to ask: "What do you think of this one then?"
>> Edited by dinkel on Saturday 14th January 09:37
Oeh, this is so amazing. Favourite racing car since I was a boy in the 70s: 917 and T70.
Edit to ask: "What do you think of this one then?"
>> Edited by dinkel on Saturday 14th January 09:37
So is this a new car then, a la Ford GT? Some information here - www.lolaheritage.co.uk/news/news036/036.htm
and - www.lola-group.com/
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 13th January 21:01
and - www.lola-group.com/
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 13th January 21:01
Trackside said:
Particularly like the Sidney Taylor white and green colours.
Me too. A T70 is on my shopping list and an ex Denny Hulme/Sid Taylor car would be favourite. But then I nearly fell off the toilet when I read in Motorsport last month that a 'new T70' could be bought. Groomi: no, it's not like a 'new GT40'. It's a continuation car i.e. they carry on making them as they did before ...which is why the FIA will give these new cars a passport for historic racing.
It's an official, new historic racing car.
The new cars are sold - as they were originally - without an engine. It's a chassis with a Hewland DG600 gearbox. A small block Chevy was favourite in period and probably is now although they did run with Ford motors - Foyt and Gurney ran T70s with Gurney-Weslake Ford motors for instance. A couple of chassis also ran with Aston Martin V8s.
dinkel said:
Review
Lola's PR pics
Luvly, luvly and luvly . . . imagine a roadversion.
Lola's PR pics show Nigel Hulme's original 1969 car on which the continuation Lola is based on. Wholly agree with Phil, the 'new' Lola was bar far and away the best looking car at the show (asides from one other car in the Live Action Arena).
Mr Hulme, asides from owning the Lola, also acts as the UK agent for the Le Mans Superformance Coupe, in essence a 21st Century version of the Shelby Daytona Coupe of 1965 Le Mans fame.
Pat, :Sybill mode: I know!
NH's T is also featured on the Lola Heritage site . . . nice colorscheme.
Amazing it didn't reach PH page one . . .
"Mind you, those were the days when motoring folk would still proclaim, "If it looks right, it is right"."
Nice quote . . . something to think about.
"The state-of-the-art 1969 racer you can buy is a mid-engined two-seater . . . "
Two, I like that.
"Could you put one on the road?" Roadversion anyone?
"However, at least one was road-registered; in 1974, I drove it from London to Hinkley and back several times. That rare privilege came courtesy of the late Colin Clark, Alan’s younger brother. Colin was aiming for outright leadership of Motor magazine’s famous league table for the fastest road-legal cars, and I was given the job of putting it through its paces, with a “fifth wheel” measuring device attached, at the MIRA test track. That car had a 7.6-litre Chevy V8 and I remember it would see off anything at half throttle and without ever exceeding 2,000rpm in any gear."
:Eddie Murphy saying: Baby!
NH's T is also featured on the Lola Heritage site . . . nice colorscheme.
Amazing it didn't reach PH page one . . .
"Mind you, those were the days when motoring folk would still proclaim, "If it looks right, it is right"."
Nice quote . . . something to think about.
"The state-of-the-art 1969 racer you can buy is a mid-engined two-seater . . . "
Two, I like that.
"Could you put one on the road?" Roadversion anyone?
"However, at least one was road-registered; in 1974, I drove it from London to Hinkley and back several times. That rare privilege came courtesy of the late Colin Clark, Alan’s younger brother. Colin was aiming for outright leadership of Motor magazine’s famous league table for the fastest road-legal cars, and I was given the job of putting it through its paces, with a “fifth wheel” measuring device attached, at the MIRA test track. That car had a 7.6-litre Chevy V8 and I remember it would see off anything at half throttle and without ever exceeding 2,000rpm in any gear."
:Eddie Murphy saying: Baby!
Trackside said:
I say! 
The T70 (coupe and spyder) has always been up there in my book. Love the looks, the noise, the sheer drama of that shape. Particularly like the Sidney Taylor white and green colours.
The T70 (coupe and spyder) has always been up there in my book. Love the looks, the noise, the sheer drama of that shape. Particularly like the Sidney Taylor white and green colours. Hi, well as a matter of fact I know the owner of the ex Sid Taylor car (pictured in original thread quoted here), Frank Sytner, fairly well and he has a large amount of success with the car racing across Europe racing at circuits like Spa, Silverstone and other such places. The car is prepared and looked after by Simon Hadfield, who also has a fairly regular seat as co-pilot to Sytner. Lucky devil...
Well there was certainly one out racing at the Silverstone Classic last summer and I suspect one or two more will have come out to play. When I spoke to one of Lola's chaps at the Historic show last year he said that they expected most of the production to go to existing owners of "historic" T70's (lucky b'stads) and hence if you had the new one painted in the same colours as the old one (and noting that all the parts are on a MK3 will be interchangeable) who would know which one was out ?
Ta, more T70 here.
http://www.cirkitvision.com/events/2007/ford_ferra...
Feck are they small . . . saw a few at Spa 6 Hrs: bloody amazing brutal beasts thundering!
http://www.cirkitvision.com/events/2007/ford_ferra...
Feck are they small . . . saw a few at Spa 6 Hrs: bloody amazing brutal beasts thundering!
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