1965 Lola T70 Spyder

This car competed in the Pre 1974 Le Mans Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1965 Lola T70 Spyder of Harrogate Horseless Carriages, chassis SL71/31, which was driven in the race by Colin Blower. It has a 5 litre Chevrolet V8 engine and the programme of the event has this note about the Lola T70 entrants in the race:

'Spyder versions are handled by ex-rallycrosser Colin Parry-Williams and Colin Blower. The latter, owned by TVR dealer Nigel Kemp, set the outright lap record for Silverstone's GP Circuit in 1996 driven by Denny Hulme. A year later he was Formula 1 World Champion.'

1965 Lola T70 Spyder

This car took part in the HSCC Atlantic Computers Historic GT Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's the 1965 Lola T70 Spyder of Colin Parry-Williams which the programme of the event says has a 5 litre engine. It's the former John Mecom Racing Zerex Special, chassis SL70/13 and you can read William I'Anson's history of the car here.

Here's Colin Parry-Williams at Old Hall Corner during the race.

Lola T70 Spyder

This car took part in the Pre-1972 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the Lola T70 Spyder of Colin Parry-Williams which appears to be the ex-Mecom car, chassis SL70/13, and which the programme of the event says is a 1966 car and has a 5,000cc engine. On 7 August 2017 I showed a photograph of this car that I'd taken at Silverstone in 2001 where it had a 5,700cc Chevrolet engine and was said to be a 1965 car.

Lola T70 Spyder

On 24 April 2016 I showed photographs of a Lola T70 Spyder that took part in the Sports Racing Masters race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006. Here are photographs of another Lola T70 Spyder that took part in the same race.

It's the 1966 car of Marshall Bailey with what the programme of the event says is a 5.7 litre engine, presumably the 350 cu in V8 Chevrolet engine that was fitted to many of these cars. Next to it are four cars that competed in the BRDC Historic Sports Car Race, the 3.4 litre Jaguar D-Type of Benjamin Eastick, and three Listers that aren't mentioned in the programme of the event. On the extreme left is the Cooper Maserati T51 of Andrew Garner that was driven in the HGPCA Pre-1966 GP Cars Race by Gary Pearson.

Here's Marshall Bailey at Redgate corner during the race.

Lola T70 Spyder

This car took part in the 1960s World Endurance Cars Italy v Rest of the World race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's Colin Parry-Williams' car, listed in the programme of the event as a 1965 Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder with a 5,700cc engine. It appears to be the ex-John Mecom Racing chassis SL70/13, originally fitted with a 4.7 litre Ford V8 engine. The car later passed through various hands before being bought by Colin Parry-Williams in 1981, being restored and fitted with the Chevrolet engine in 1997.

I showed photographs of two other Lola T70 Spyders on 24 April 2016 and 12 March 2017.

Lola T70

This car competed in the 1 hour long Historic Motor Racing News Gentlemen Drivers Sports Racing Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1965 Lola T70 Mk1 driven in the race by Frank Sytner and Simon Hadfield, and a note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

Debuted, unpainted, by David Hobbs at Goodwood in 1965, chassis SLXX/4 was also raced by Monte Shallet and road registered by a later owner. Reimported from the USA by Frank Sytner in 2003, it is probably the earliest T70 still racing. Chevrolet V8 engine packs a big punch in Eric Broadley-designed monocoque chassis.

The car that David Hobbs drove at Goodwood in 1965, though, was that of Harold Young Racing, which was chassis SL70/2. Chassis SL70/4 was returned to the factory soon after delivery to Hugh Dibley and the car was rebuilt using chassis SL70/7. The history of SL70/2 is told in this Bonhams auction offering.

Here's the car during the race at Britten's chicane leading the 1965 Elva Mk8 of David Clark and the 1963 Elva Mk7S of Ivan Scotti.

Lola T70 Spyder

Here's a car that took part in the 1 hour long Sports Racing Masters race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's the 5.7 litre Chevrolet-engined 1964 Lola T70 Spyder shared by Chris Chiles jnr and Paul Ingram. Developed for Can-Am racing, the Lola T70 won the first series in 1966 in the hands of John Surtees.

Here's the car at Redgate corner during the race leading the 1963 Cooper Monaco T49 of Ted Williams & Chris Clarkson.