{"id":238528,"date":"2016-04-22T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=238528"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:55:37","slug":"1967-lola-t70-mkiii-spyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1967-lola-t70-mkiii-spyder\/","title":{"rendered":"1967 Lola T70 MkIII Spyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1967 Lola T70 MkIII Spyder<\/h1>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">For the 1967 season, Lola adapted their highly successful T70 with longer wishbones to better use the wide tires available in the period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the Group 7 races cancelled in Europe, the T70 was relegated to American racing. McLaren had become a formidable opponent in both the USSRC and CanAm races with their M6B. Both Dana Chevrolet and Penske made great efforts in the season<\/p>\n<h4>Sources<\/h4>\n<p>1. Starkey, John and Franco Varani. <u>Lola T70<\/u>. 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stylist<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Jim Clark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">coachbuilder<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Specialized Mouldings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">engineers<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Eric Broadley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">production<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"boldlabel\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">engine<\/td>\n<td class=\"boldvalue\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Chevrolet V8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">position<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" 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With the Group 7 races cancelled in Europe, the T70 was relegated to American racing. McLaren had become a formidable opponent in both the USSRC and CanAm races with their M6B. Both Dana Chevrolet and Penske made great efforts in the season Sources 1. Starkey, John and Franco Varani. Lola T70. Gryfon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2186,1919,9348,17100],"tags":[2727,16843,1857,6720,6718,11641,13061,6722,245],"class_list":["post-238528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","category-lola","category-guides","category-model-guides-race-cars","tag-1960s","tag-1960s-cars","tag-lola","tag-lola-model-in-depth","tag-lola-race-car-in-depth","tag-lola-t70","tag-car-profiles","tag-race-car-in-depth","tag-race-car"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1967 Lola T70 MkIII Spyder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1967-lola-t70-mkiii-spyder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1967 Lola T70 MkIII Spyder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1967 Lola T70 MkIII Spyder For the 1967 season, Lola adapted their highly successful T70 with longer wishbones to better use the wide tires available in the period. 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