This car competed in the one hour long World Sports Car Masters race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.
It's the 1969 Lola T70 Mk 3B that was driven in the race by Chris Beighton and Jon Finnemore and has a 5 litre Chevrolet engine. The car is chassis SL76/148, originally owned by Joakim Bonnier and went from him to Swedish driver Picko Troberg. During practice for the 1969 Nürburgring 1000km Picko Troberg's co-driver Björn Rothstein crashed and completely wrecked the vehicle which was replaced by Lola with a completely new car bearing the same chassis number. Less than two months later that car was crashed by Ronnie Peterson at Zeltweg and again severely damaged. The remains were sold to Barrie Smith who got Lola to build a new car using whatever bits they could from the wreckage. The car has been owned by various drivers since then, including David Piper.
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