1968 Lola T70 MKIII Spyder

Eric Broadley's Lola project, the legendary T70, debuted in 1965 and quickly demonstrated its prowess in the hands of John Surtees, who won the inaugural Can-Am Championship in 1966. The T70 series was produced in open MK II Spyder and MK III Coupe forms until 1968.

Although eclipsed by the Ferrari 512 and Porsche 917, the race-proven Lola T70 demonstrated its reliability and speed when Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons won the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona in a Roger Penske-entered, Chevrolet-powered MK IIIB Coupe. The T70 was driven by a veritable 'who's who' of 1960s motor racing stars on both sides of the Atlantic. T70 drivers included Denny Hulme, Frank Gardner, Jo Bonnier, Brian Redman, David Piper, Trevor Taylor, Paul Hawkins, Walt Hansgen and scores of others.

This is one of four Penske cars from the 1967 season and believed to be one of Mark Donohue's cars. The car always ran in the top three or four, finished 2nd at Road America, 3rd at Riverside and won the USRRC for 1967. According to John Starkey's Lola's T-70 book this chassis was sold to Carl Haas on February 16, 1968 and ran a Chevy small block. It still has the original LG600 gear box #045. Skip Scott and Chuck Parsons drove the car to victory in the 1968 Elkhart Lake Can-Am event. In 1979 Phil Reilly bought the project, which (via Steve Griswold in Berkeley) was then restored to Christ Cord & Tom Skouras, launching Phil's restoration business. Phil sourced original bodywork from a Penske-Donohue 1967 T-70, including a 'gurney style' nose, prompting the decision to livery the car in Sunoco style rather than 1968 Haas Simoniz colors. It participated in many vintage races under this livery until recently when Steve Hilton, the car's current owner, acquired a second body for the car, restoring it to its Carl Haas Tem Simoniz wax heritage for the 2007 vintage campaign.