Gad! I remember the original Lola T-70 from my slot car days of 50 years ago. It was hot back then, and to see a streetable version of it now ... well, it's pretty hard to wipe the grin off my face! Nice report!
Tweak that 'Vette engine to run closer to its full potential of around 650-700hp. Hook it up to a properly ratioed Hewland gearbox, have the chassis bump-steered and set up by a competent chassis shop. That Lola will make that McLaren cry like a baby as it gets so left behind.
According to his posted specs the torque is actually about the same 420 vs 442. Just looking at the power to weight that thing must be a whole lot faster in a straight line. The purist car is always the the more rewarding car in my opinion.
90k for a kit car and the speedo doesn't work? Nit picking aside the T70 is one of my favourite cars and it's really nice to see it on a review like this. Many thanks.
The production car is fifty times more sophisticated, and most things work. No great surprise there... What was it about a high end sports car in the late '60s / early '70s, that made them SO INCREDIBLY EXCITING? Cars like the the Ford GT40 and the 917 and this, the early (racing) mid engine Ferraris... They were a high water mark of just how much fun a machine can be. 50 years later, they still are! Not many things made today are even close to that exhilarating.
@3:45 Instant balding XD JK, we know it was just a shot that had to be placed. great work. loving seeing these different Lola replicas. However, when the job is done as well as I've seen these and others, I like to call them 'revisions'. Good job lads and all the production team involved, keep cranking out the amazing content; hundreds of manhours well invested.
Yet again, you can tell that he's smitten with the Lola and that actually, in comparison, the over complicated, uninvolving McLaren has (like soooo many other modern over complicated cars) lost it's appeal and the true meaning of what a real drivers car should be like.
There's no way the max torque holds up to max power rpm 5:21. Because calculating power at 7000 results in 590 so there are more revs for max PWR In fact the max power is at 7500rpm. at 3000 rpm is 252 bhp at 4000 rpm is 336 bhp at 5000 rpm is 421 bhp at 6000 rpm is 505 bhp That's why it works better at high rpm. The formula is easy Torque X rpm / 5260 = bhp
What on earth do you mean "Lola didn't really make any Spyders" ? Yes they did. It started life as a Spyder in 1965 and was the go-to sports car in 1966, usually fitted with a 5.7 litre Chevvy or a 4.7 Ford V8. It was common throughout Europe and the US. It became the MK3 coupé in 1967 when FIA changed the regs. So it is a replica and visually not a very good one. It has a chin spoiler the T70 never had, a tall road windscreen and a teardrop Targa rear screen. It's proportions look all wrong. That being said, it's a bargain but nothing like a T70.
all you thrashing the replica, yea its not as nice everyday but the replica is much more involving to drive, it probably is slower round the track, not close as nice to drive everyday but it isnt build for that either, its build to get all your senses involved, to scare you, to make you a better driver, this car is nothing for an amateur, where the mclaren anyone can drive.
My guess is that in the right hand corner the vent line of the fuel tank gets flooded and dumps the fuel. I had a similar problem on my kitcar when I once used it on a race track and was black flagged for it. Easily rectified though with a Mocal vent valve.
Stretch it .,.,. just change the ass ,open it all up and level it out up higher and stretch the nose so it looks like a real one ,. and the wheelbase looks shorter
i would love to have one of those in my garage ,,, replica or not who cares its not for sale i never sell a car i get and like and that turns it expencive coz i get buyers every day that about iriginal and replica is a psicological bussiness thing because when building this cars ether wayreplica or original guess what ? the same money is spent but the fucking word is whats expencive coz thats what rockets the price sky high then the replica goes for 100k and the original goes for half a million dollar lol its just stupid expencive and the idiotic costumer is buying a superexpencive word ORIGINAL jajaja who ever may thinck that some words are superexpencive another word that cost too much is ITS NOT FOR SALE i say that to my costumers every day and make alot of profit lol ,, but that lola race car i would get a replica with no hesitation thats for sure
Brutal Brandon Just find your first comment to actually be the arrogant one here. Don't think I said anything negative about the engine in the Lola replica at all, simply made the point that there'd be better engines with much more character to put in such a car, yet you attack me as if I had said something negative about them. Maybe learn to read something more than once and understand it perhaps from another point of view before commenting.
Brutal Brandon Go ahead and try to put words in my mouth, I never said that but think what you will. Like I said, reason is out the window! Not like I have any reason to back pedal at all with my comment, it's bloody RU-vid.
That was bloody painful. Waffling on forever trying to justify both cars. Why not a lap time from both cars? I would be genuinely interested to see the difference.
