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Anyone Familiar With The Lola T70?

Started by OVNi_CIVIC, Apr 13 2008 08:16 PM

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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:16 PM

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I watched THX 1138 for the first time yesterday, and for anyone whos has wached it, the cars in it a SWEET! took me 45 min to figure out what kind of car it is.... a 1960's LOLA T70 MKIII. I must own one someday! BTW the movie is great! watch it!


remix of clips from the movie set to techno


racing clip of LOLA T70

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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:21 PM

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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:31 PM

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http://www.finecars....html?no_cache=1

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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:32 PM

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The one for sale in the link is a 1969 model. The last 1960 I saw went through Barret Jackson for over $1,000,000USD. This would be on my list as well as the Ferrari P3/P4. I have been saving for 30 years and they keep going up faster than I can save. Very frustrating indeed.

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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:38 PM

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We usually get a handfull of T70's that show up for our big vintage/historic event in July at Road America.

Racing legend Mark Donahue won the 24 hours of Daytona in a T70 in the early 70's.

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Posted 14 April 2008 - 10:28 AM

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QUOTE (OVNi_CIVIC @ Apr 13 2008, 05:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I watched THX 1138 for the first time yesterday, and for anyone whos has wached it, the cars in it a SWEET! took me 45 min to figure out what kind of car it is.... a 1960's LOLA T70 MKIII. I must own one someday! BTW the movie is great! watch it!


IIRC George Lucas' budget for THX 1138 did not have room for contemporary race cars. Instead they used clones (VW pans with a body made by Fiber Fab, a Santa Clara California company that made GT40 clones and a Myer's Manx rip off).

I am currently in the process of reading Mark Donohue's book The Unfair Advantage which is a great history of US Sports Car Racing and the early days of the Rodger Penske racing team in the 1960's and early 1970's. In the book he talks extensively about the Lola cars like those pictured.

If you want to see real race cars on a real race track in a movie, rent Steve McQueen's Le Mans. It does not have much of a story but it is worth renting for the driver's point of view shot in a Porsche 917 going about 180 mph in the rain.

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Posted 14 April 2008 - 11:44 AM

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