Wednesday, September 12, 2007






The Lola T70 Mk3B was built in the mid to late 1960's. They first T70's were spyders and were primarily designed for the Can-Am series. Roger Penske picked the Lola T70 for his driver Mark Donahue. After the introduction of the Mclaren race cars the Lola was not as successful and Lola converted the Spyder to coupe form and used it in endurance racing.


About 100 T70's were made in both the coupe and spyder form. I really like the shape of the spyder over the coupe. When Steve McQueen was making the movie Le mans the had to crash several cars and rather than crash a Ferrari or a Porsche they put on a fake body on Lola T70's and crashed them.


The most common engine in a Lola GT70 Coupe is a 5 liter Chevy. Other engines were used Dan Gurney used a Ford engine in his Spyder and Lola built a car for Aston Martin using an Aston engine of course.

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