Lola were great beneficiaries of the FIA’s decision to restrict engine capacity of top flight Group 6 Prototypes to three-litres for 1968. Like Ford’s GT40, the Lola T70 Mk3B GT was, on account of a…
Read MoreChassis SL76/153 was the T70 Mk3B GT supplied new to privateer Terry Croker for the 1970 season. The yellow car appeared under an A&J Motors entry which was the garage run by Croker’s father in…
Read MoreChassis SL76/147 was dispatched on May 20th 1969 to Lola’s European distributor, Jo Bonnier. Bonnier in turn sold the car to renowned Swiss tuner, Louis Morand, who planned to race it with an…
Read MoreFor 1967, Lola created a Coupe version of the highly successful T70 which for the previous two seasons had proven so effective in Can-Am, the Unites States Road Racing Championship and the…
Read MoreChassis SL76/151 was the second T70 Mk3B GT sold to the Swiss Ferrari distributor, Georges Filipinetti. It followed chassis SL76/145 which incurred heavy damage on its debut outing at the…
Read MoreChassis SL76/149 was sold to 28-year old English privateer, Mike de Udy, for his 1969 campaign. Prior to this latest T70, in 1967 de Udy had purchased a new first generation Mk3 GT (chassis SL73/105)…
Read MoreChassis SL76/145 was sold to Lola’s US distributor, Carl Haas, of Lincolnshire, Illinois. Together with the sister cars of Roger Penske and John Love, SL76/145 was expected to form part of a three-car…
Read MoreChassis SL76/144 was sold to 32 year old privateer racing driver David Preston of Bosworth, Leicestershire. Between 1964 and 1968, Preston had competed with a Lotus Seven, a Brabham BT14…
Read MoreChassis SL76/148B was built around a brand new chassis and body using the engine and gearbox from Picko Troberg’s wrecked T70: chassis SL76/148A. The red Lola was supplied to British privateer…
Read MoreChassis SL76/148A was the second T70 Mk3B GT supplied to Swedish privateer, Picko Troberg. It replaced Troberg’s earlier example, SL76/148, which had been wrecked by Bjorn Rothstein during…
Read MoreChassis SL76/148 was sold via Lola agent, Jo Bonnier, to Swedish car dealer and privateer racing driver, Picko Troberg. Troberg began racing in the Swedish Formula Junior series. In addition he…
Read MoreChassis SL76/146 was sold new to John Woolfe. Woolfe was a British privateer who, together with his business partner, Arnold Burton, ran John Woolfe Racing, a major UK retailer of high performance…
Read MoreChassis SL76/138 was sold to Irish racing driver and team owner, Sid Taylor. Taylor hailed from Rathfarnham in south Dublin. He ran Taylor’s Grange Hotel (located on his family’s extensive farm)…
Read MoreChassis SL76/150 was one of 16 Lola T70 GTs built to Mk3B specification. It was originally sold to renowned British privateer, David Piper. David Piper was among the best known sports car entrants…
Read MoreChassis SL76/139 was the first T70 Mk3B GT. Completed by Lola on December 30th 1968 and dispatched to the USA the next day, its destination was Roger Penske Racing in Philadelphia. Penske…
Read MoreChassis SL70/143 was one of the 16 B-spec. T70 MK3 GTs constructed by Lola. It was supplied new to Swedish Formula 1 driver, Jo Bonnier, whose Grand Prix career included spells at BRM, Porsche and…
Read MoreConsidered among the best sports car drivers of his time, Australian Paul Hawkins was variously employed by the works Porsche and Ferrari teams as well as Carroll Shelby and the Gulf-backed…
Read MoreUlf Norinder was a wealthy Swiss privateer whose grandfather manufactured Lakerol pastils and lozenges. By 1968, Norinder had owned and raced a variety of cars to include a Maserati 200 S, two…
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