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Curtis Jacobson
Portland Oregon
(4576 posts)

Registered:
10/12/2007 02:16AM

Main British Car:
71 MGBGT, Buick 215

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Should "British V8" Move Upscale? (Lola T70 photos!!!)
Posted by: Moderator
Date: August 01, 2008 01:54PM

British V8 2008 was deliberately scheduled back-to-back with the Kohler International Challenge at nearby Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Anyone who attended British V8 2008 and then didn't stay over to see vintage Can-Am cars up-close-and-personal really, profoundly messed up!

Here's just one example of what you missed. (Please see the five photos below.)

I didn't have time to verify the details, but I was told that this specific car is THE very "Lola T70 Mk II" (with open cockpit and Chevy motor) that Mark Donahue himself drove in Can-Am races in 1966. (Correct me if I'm wrong... but didn't Lola win five of the six races they ran in '66? I wasn't born yet...) Here's the bigger question: shouldn't British V8 edge upscale and start covering this sort of "engine swap" too?

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MarkDonahue/MarkDonahue-A.jpg

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MarkDonahue/MarkDonahue-B.jpg

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MarkDonahue/MarkDonahue-C.jpg

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MarkDonahue/MarkDonahue-D.jpg

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MarkDonahue/MarkDonahue-E.jpg


V6 Midget
Bill Young
Kansas City, MO
(1337 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 09:23AM

Main British Car:
'73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep

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Re: Should "British V8" Move Upscale? (Lola T70 photos!!!)
Posted by: V6 Midget
Date: August 01, 2008 02:29PM

Nice eye candy Curtis, but a bit out of my budget. Here's another one I ran into at the races at Heartland Park last year in Kent Prather's pit area.If I remember correctly this one was an ex Jackie Stewart car.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2008 03:15PM by V6 Midget.


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