1969 Lola T70 MK IIIB Coupe

Lola Cars International Ltd. was a racing car engineering company founded in 1958 by Eric Broadley and based in Huntingdon, England. For more than fifty years, Lola was one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of purpose built race cars in the world. Lola Cars started by building small front-engine sports cars, and eventually branched out into Formula Junior race cars before diversifying into a wider range of sporting vehicles. The Lola T70 was developed by Lola Cars of Great Britain to compete in Sports Car Racing. Lola would build the chassis and the company would use different engine sources, usually American built V-8's. The T70's, like this car, was the more popular example with well over 100 being built.

It is said that the Lola T70 'embodied grace with performance, powered by a high horsepower American V8 that made a sound that Camaros and Corvettes could only hope to match.' The T70 was designed to accommodate any American V8 with a monocoque chassis constructed of a mix of aluminum and steel for additional reinforcement. The suspension was quite conventional, using double wishbones and coil springs over dampers. The 3b's were typically equipped with Chevy V8's that produced over 450 horsepower. Sadly, Lola struggled in the Sports Racing Class as most of its attention was in Indy Racing, Formula 1 and Can-Am.