New member Building a Lola T70 Mark IIIB from scratch

[Lynn Jones]

I am from San Antonio Texas. I am starting a recreation build of a Lola T70 mark IIIB. I have been a mechanic my whole life. I have a 1972 mgb roadster I race in CVAR and SVRA. I also have a 1968 911 and a MGB GTS wide body aluminum V8 track and street car that I built from a tub. I have wanted a Lola for some time but can not afford to buy a real one. I bought the Haynes Manuel and the Tamiya 1/12 scale model to get the measurements off of, draw the blue prints and make the tinplate's from, in order to recreate the chassis. I hope that this forum will be a good source of help in my endeavor. I reached out to Lolaparts.com for uprights and a price on a chassis and have had no response. I will post progress as i move forward this project.

Lynn Jones

 

[Michel]

HI
there is a very nice chap named René who initialyy build a GT40 and then started some year ago onto a lola t70 build :

R

Post in thread 'From GT40 to Lola T70 MK3b build'

Aug 30, 2022

Bonjour Michel

Merci des tes encouragements ; j'ai vu que tu es toujours bien présent sur le forum, contrairement à moi qui suis sujet à éclipses...
Mais le projet Lola ( En équipe , cette fois ci ..) avance bien et je prévois de me remettre à un reporting un peu plus dense dans dans les prochains mois .
En attendant : quelques photos récentes ....

René

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another member named Marcus is also building from scratch a very very nice and accurate T70 ; he used to have athread build ........

 

[Ronnie]

Welcome on board

 

[Howard Jones]

Lynn, I live right up I35 in New Braunfels. I have a GT40 replica and an SLC track car. We should meet up sometime and enjoy our mutual craziness. I'm retired so just about any time is good for me.

I sent you my contact info via a direct message.

 

[Nirvan Charles]

Lynn, I live right up I35 in New Braunfels. I have a GT40 replica and an SLC track car. We should meet up sometime and enjoy our mutual craziness. I'm retired so just about any time is good for me.

I sent you my contact info via a direct message.

I didn’t know there was a GT40 right in my back yard?!
If you’re ever taking that thing out for a spin I’d love to check it out and pick your brain on things.
It’ll be good motivation for my scratch build.

 

[Brian Kissel]

Welcome to GT40S Lynn. Please do keep us updated with your progress. I am slowly getting a RCR Lola T70 MK3B. My health has held me back this year but hopefully next year I’ll get it.

Regards Brian