Johan,
I remember your blue T-70, very nice car!
Your photo of the front wheel looks like a correct wheel but it kinda looks like an aluminum wheel.
If it's a two piece wheel it is probably a Phil Schmidt reproduction wheel.
All roadsters had the bolt on wheels, coupes had the knock off wheels. F5000 Lolas (T-140/142) had bolt on but used a steel hub, T-70 bolt on hubs were aluminum, Knock off's were steel of course.
The radiator is very close to original but looks a little thicker. I had to make a thicker core for mine because it would overheat with the stock one. The aluminum mounting looks non-original.
I may have a photo of the correct mounting, but there were two basic nose shapes for a T-70 spyder, one with headlights was used up thru the MKIII roadsters, but one without headlights was also used on MkIII spyders and was retrofitted onto the MKI and MKII cars because it was lighter and had less front end lift at high speeds.
The non headlight nose was modified by Penske and had the nose cut and flared out by pulling the glass outward just ahead of the front tires. This hides the tires a bit in front fiew helping aero, also this mod flattened the top of the "fender" just forward of the wheel center. Some other teams ran the "Penske" nose too, not sure if Penske originated it or got it from someone else.
Anyway, the point I'm making about the nose is, if your car had the non-headlight nose on it, that nose is lower and the radiator would have been dropped down about two inches to make it fit that nose. If later the coupe nose was put on, then something had to be changed to raise the rad back up.
My radiator mount is low but I made a spacer inside the nose to hold it in the proper position. That way, I can use either the headlight or non headlight nose.
There were a fiew coupe replacement tubs that became roadsters but retained the coupe knock offs. Original coupes had two battery box cutouts in the front edge of the drivers seats, spyders had one on the left side. This took a Varley battery on it's side.
MKII's had a longer lower wishbone on the rear suspension, a good idea. My MKI was shorter, the MkIII was back to shorter, then there were two or three MKIII "B" spyders built that had VERY long upper and lower links/wishbones. Those were the "best" but Lola screwed up the front suspension on all MKIII and III B's, they tried to add more neg camber gain by raising the upper balljoint, but that raised the allready too-high roll center even higher! It's something like 8" when it should be 3"!
They also took more and more weight out of the tub, and by the MKIII B, they were getting more and more flexable in torsional rigidity.
The MKII was the best in my opinion.
I can't find my Starkey book right now, I guess it's near the bottom of my book/catalog pile! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I saw the yellow Bartz car at McLendon's shop years ago when he was in Ventura California. It had a B coupe cab and tail but an A coupe nose grafted on over a B coupe type chassis. I guess they perferred the older nose, it sticks out less for street use.
