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Possibly one of the most beautiful racecars, the Lola T70 is making a comeback. This time, its bellowing V8 tunes won’ t be confined to just the circuit
‘ T he recipe for the T70 Mark 3B, back in’ 69, was: Lola chassis, Chevrolet small block, Hewland gearbox. We didn’ t want to mess with our recipe.’ Matt Faulks, Executive Innovation Director of Lola, explains the most important elements of the T70S GT, the company’ s new road car..
Lola has relaunched its most iconic car, the T70 and customers have a big decision to make: to have a T70S, a racer exactly like the T70 Mk3B that won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1969, or the road-going T70S GT. Yes, a fully legal, number plate-wearing, emissions-conforming, supposedly-usable Lola T70 for the road.‘ There are 16 chassis available and the customer can pick whether they want a road car or a racecar for their build slot. Then we’ ll build the car accordingly.’
It was relatively straightforward creating the racecar, says Matt,‘ T70S is a Historic Technical Passport car, so you can race it in historic. That meant we needed a historic engine, so it had to be built to the original spec, which is Chevrolet small block, mechanical injection. The racecar is from 1969; it’ s all clockwork. So the noise it makes is the noise that it made at Daytona. The performance is the same, 530hp, very much an original package.’
The combination of the T70’ s stunning looks and the brute force of a smallblock Chevrolet V8 is too appealing to ignore
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