MK-I MK-II MK-III MK-IV GULF MIRAGE J-CAR LOLA
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09-19-05, 01:12 PM
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Johan-
I am no Lola expert but have you thought about a Lamborghini engine for that T70? | 
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09-19-05, 06:04 PM
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No I have not thought of the Lolalini, but have you heard about the Coblola, Cobra body on a Lola Chassis ? | |
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09-19-05, 06:14 PM
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Note Chassis... | |
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09-19-05, 06:20 PM
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| | MikeDD 10 tenths
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Richard
You have a PM.
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09-20-05, 12:28 AM
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| | ckouba 5 Tenths
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That Coblola looks a little, um, "rough." Is there a story behind it?
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09-29-05, 01:25 PM
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That Coblola is the car wrecked by Steve McQueen while filming "LeMans". I thought it had been auctioned off, some years ago, along with the Mustang from "Bullitt". | |
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09-29-05, 01:44 PM
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| | Ron Earp Site Administrator
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Why don't you fellows start a new thread on that line? This thread is really long, and while good info is here it is buried deep.
R | |
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10-16-05, 12:27 AM
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| | Charles
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I love to race and go really really fast..... like 400+ MPH. It\'s called flying jets. It\'s nice to GT40: New Hampshire
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Hey... Carrol Shelby had a chicken coop... guess all his snakes at the chickens.. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] | |
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10-19-05, 09:13 AM
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| | 6 Tenths
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I'm taking the car to Road Atlanta this weekend for the Atlanta Historic races. I have some hay and fake chickens
and I'm going to make a "barn find" display. We are racing other cars (Lolas) and will report back with photos after the weekend. | |
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01-13-06, 08:19 AM
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| | roclery 3 Tenths 
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Hi Johan
It'd be great to read your report and see those photos!
Any more progress with the car? | |
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01-13-06, 02:54 PM
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| | Mesa 3 Tenths
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Johan, I think Iv'e sat in your hertige car! Iv'e twiddled the bits and made race car sounds in it too![img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif[/img]
On a visit to Can-am Exotics (if I remember the name right) see thier (one and only example?) Lola 'kit' car. They had just broken the Audi tranny in thier car and your blue one was sitting right next to it (before you owned it I imagine) So after drooling over the quality of thier car which was first rate, I hopped in yours to check out a 'real' Lola. Right then and there I new I wanted FAT tires on whatever I build as thiers with undersized wheel/rubber looked 'weak'.
Since, to my knowledge Exotics never built a car for sale (the same reason I didnt buy one), I am now off to our friend Fran Hall (does Fran have any connection to this heritage car?)
I was like a kid in a candy store when I went out to see Fran's offering's....which one to pick, which one to pick. Jeeezuss I'm hopeless.
Anyway, I hope Ive connected all the dots accurately and havent just made a huge BOOB out of myself.
Any truth to my story?
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01-13-06, 08:24 PM
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Richard, thanks for the interest in how the Gurney car is coming along. We did in fact take it both the Petite Lemans and The Atlanta Historic Races, and it drew a lot of attention. This picture is from the Petite: | |
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01-13-06, 08:29 PM
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#173 (permalink)
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We then took the car with us to the Atlanta Historic Races,
not to race but just to display. We raced and broke other cars all weekend long. This is a picture of our pit full of Lolas ! It was a great way to spend the weekend playing with cars ! | |
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01-13-06, 08:39 PM
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First we raced the Lola /Schkee SONY coupe.
Schkee comes from Doug Schultz and Bob McKee, the fellows that built the car from a Formula 5000 Lola T332. Ironically,Doug Schultz sold the Forg MK IV J4 to finance this project. We broke a Shock and it was a wild ride in the turns. | |
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01-13-06, 08:42 PM
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Before the broken damper: | |
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01-13-06, 08:46 PM
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So we get out The Budweiser car that I was supposed to be co-driving with John Paul Jr. and noticed a loose ring gear type of vibration the second lap.... | |
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01-13-06, 08:55 PM
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And spent the night trying to fix it while J>P>Jr. fought off the Hurricanes | |
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01-13-06, 08:57 PM
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And I cooked steaks and peppers and onions. | |
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01-13-06, 09:05 PM
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So we had to take a step back and run the Lola Heritage T70.
It is a good car in it's own right and I guess that it was the one that "Mesa" sat in.
In answer to your question Mesa, I have all of the Lola Heritage T70 cars and chassis, bought as a package. | |
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01-13-06, 09:09 PM
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Fran Hall is one of the few that I trust to wrench my racers, and he has agreed to help with fitting the body that WAS on the Gurney car onto one of the Heritage Lola chassis. Yes, I said was, as the Gurney car is well on it's way back to a Spyder. We found enough of the original pieces that it had to be done. The very crucial original center support was located as was the nose mold. Pictures coming soon. Thanks for the interest ! | |
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