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Showing posts with label Lola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lola. Show all posts
Saturday, May 02, 2026
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Bill Krause raced this Ford-powered Lola T70 in Las Vegas.
What a damn good looking racecar
Saturday, December 03, 2022
Saturday, April 02, 2022
I don't know about other company CEO's, but Ford? They got a rare one, he owns and races a '64 289 Shelby Cobra and a '66 Ford GT40. Plus, he's committed to helping at a charity kitchen and helps the homeless... and I am committed to helping charities to my free publicity
I'll start with something accessible, the Amazon Wish List for the homeless at this charity, because I'm certain none of us can afford to bid on the racetrack session with Jim Farley https://smile.amazon.com/hz/charitylist/ls/1OXBJLV8JDKZQ/ref=smi_ext_lnk_lcl_cl
If anyone can't attend in person, but wants to bid on the racetrack session online, go to https://one.bidpal.net/buildingbridges/ticketing(details:ticketing-summary) purchase a 50 dollar "At Home Access" ticket, which I'm told opens a webpage for the online streaming of the event, and the auction, and also provides a running total of the auction bid, as there have been bidding wars, and the winning bid last year was $32,000
Fyi, the charity is a step closer in its plans for building a new housing facility in Detroit to aid the city's homeless population thanks to a $13 million donation by the Julia Burke Foundation, an alleged California foundation, with a mailing address on the west side of the big island of Hawaii. I'm not making this up: The Julia Burke Foundation 75-5722 Kuakini Hwy, Suite 106 Kailua Kona, HI 96740
Julia Burke was the daughter of extremely wealthy parents, apparently, and was attending UC Berkeley (San Francisco) college prep at age 16 when she lost control of her car on a freeway offramp, and hit a tree. 16 year olds aren't legally driving in California with only other kids in the car, was my understanding. How wealthy? Well, they fund mineclearing in Afghanistan, science classrooms in Zambia, and I shit you not, dine with Prince Harry https://juliaburkefoundation.com/pdfs/JBF2013_Newsletter_Final_V3.pdf
The charity in Detroit pledged to end chronic homelessness in Detroit by 2030 with a $22 million plan, which includes a 40-unit studio apartment “bridge” housing facility.
Irony, is that the news of a charity raising funds for a homeless housing facility? Is blocked by a fucking paywall https://www.crainsdetroit.com/nonprofit/pope-francis-center-gets-7-million-donation-homeless-housing-facility
Of course, this reminds me that a LOT of apartments can be rented for 7 million dollars. In Detroit? If a one bedroom is 1,000 dollars, it can be rented for 120,000 for 10 years. The means the math shows that 10 apartments in 10 years, is 1.2 million.
That 7 million dollar donation then is good for 70 apartments (roughly, I'm not using a calculator of going to exacting accuracy) for 10 years. Their 22 million dollar budget? Would pay for 70 apartments for 30 years, roughly.
And if you go back, and read the "bridge" housing facility note? It's only a 40 studio unit, plus, of course, the physiological and mental health, addiction support and social and job-readiness services. The facility also will have a cafeteria, gym, library, classrooms and a health clinic.
I'm not well informed, but, just doing the math, shows that 40 studios, does not equal 70 one bedroom apartments. Now, I'm sure I could be convinced otherwise, BUT, in Detroit? is it really going to cost 22 million dollars, to only get 40 studios, instead of just buying a big damn apartment high rise, with parking garage? In DETROIT? Just how bankrupt exactly is Detroit? Last I read, you could buy houses for 5k apiece, and that is 1,000 of those for 1 million dollars. Not 40 studios. So, fix homelessness buy buying those abandoned homes off the city tax rolls of abandoned properties.
Just me thinking out loud. Certainly the smart young business leaders don't need me pointing out that you can solve a LOT of Detroit homeless cases buy buying up the homes that Detroit has all over the place, and matching them up with the homeless. Hell, you could probably buy up neighborhoods. I did post about blocks of empty Detroit neighborhoods, so, I'm a tiny bit informed. Are those downtown? Under the watch of the charity? Organized and ruled over? Nope. Is my idiocy still a valid plan to give homeless a home? Yup. It costs me 7200 a year to rent a "studio" in San Diego, and 3600 a year to rent two garages, one for my 69 R/T, and one for the stuff that would fit in a one bedroom apartment. But one bedrooms are about 2k a month, and 10,800 is less than 1/2 of 28k for a year in a one bedroom. Yes, there are some for less, but not many, and I'm using nice round numbers for easy math to prove a comparison point. Never mind, move along.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley’s commitment to helping those struggling with addiction stems from the untimely death of his cousin, comedy star Chris Farley, who overdosed on drugs at the age of 33. So, he gives back by helping out at a kitchen, and staging fund raisers to help the charity
this was a factory road spec GT 40, he bought it out of Belgium
Farley got started in cars by buying a 65 Mustang for $500, restoring it, and selling it to double his money
When working in Germany, he raced on the Nurburgring during lunch, and when asked his advice for driving on the Nürburgring?
This was a Cobra Ken Miles drove, and it was crashed at Road America. Farley bought it about 25 years ago
He also bought this '78 Lola T298, in 1978 it won Le Mans in its class.
Farley was a product planner for trucks at Toyota, as well as helping to launch the Scion, until 2007, and from 2015 to 2017, Farley served as Ford gloabl marketing, executive vice president and president, Ford Europe, plus he signed Ken Block and that resulted in a lot of Focus RS sales because of the Gymkhana videos... and, Ken has stuck with Ford with the Hoonicorn Mustang, and that truck
Farley got started in cars by buying a 65 Mustang for $500, restoring it, and selling it to double his money
When working in Germany, he raced on the Nurburgring during lunch, and when asked his advice for driving on the Nürburgring?
"Yeah, the only tip is, when you see the German people with lawn chairs, go slower than you need to."
Sunday, January 02, 2022
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Lola T70 MkIII Coupe Chassis No. SL73/117. It was first sold to James Garner for his American International Racing Team and ran the '69 Daytona 24 hrs finishing 2nd. Garner sold it and it was used as the hero car by the character THX in the movie THX1138, then Eddie Hill bought it, and he and Ercie used it as their wedding car.
A Mark III coupe built in July 1967, it was assigned the serial number SL73/117 and sold new to Garner, who entered it in the 1968 12 Hours of Sebring, several Can Am races, the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona (where it placed second) and the 1969 12 Hours of Sebring. Garner then sold it to Ward, reportedly after the movie studios forbade Garner from all racing activities in 1969.
After filming was completed, Ward turned the Mark III over to Dan McLoughlin to have it straightened before he returned it to Warner Brothers.
McLoughlin bought the Mark III, drove it on the street, then sold it back to Ward a few years later. Ward, in turn, sold it to Eddie Hill in 1973 (sans the prop bodywork), and Hill held on to it for the next few decades, before selling it in 2007 to Lola collector Marc Devis of Belgium.
http://www.gtc-collection-cars.com/car-for-sale/1967-lola/t70-mkiii-gt-coupe-36.html
Sunday, April 08, 2018
Sunday, January 07, 2018
Thursday, January 12, 2017
using a hauler ramp truck to get the Lola track to track in 1969
https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/cp181dv2880
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Lola evolved into the GT 40, how that happened
Ford had powered cars at Le Mans since the early ’60s, such as a Marcos in 1962, and even a pair Ford Thunderbirds were provisionally entered in the 1957 edition, though they didn’t race. But with no viable sportscar programme to kickstart their Le Mans plan, new relationships were needed to shortcut the route to success.
Ford powered the Cobra, and also a Lola MkVI GT
After looking at Cooper and Lotus at the beginning of 1963, Ford fixed its eye on Lola: the relationship was cemented with the supply of two MkVIs to the mothership in the US and a transatlantic knowledge exchange. Ex-Aston Martin team manager John Wyer was also brought in to head up the new team: a name that would take Ford to its highest success and make the blue and orange of Gulf Oil perhaps the best-known sportscar livery ever.
Construction of the initial Ford GT began at Lola in the UK, prior to the formation of the dedicated Ford Advance Vehicles. The same 4.2-litre Ford Fairlane engine from the MkVI Lola was transplanted into the new car, and the iconic body began to take shape. This initial variant was narrow and long, though the rear three-quarters and slashed rear aspect are still instantly recognisable. It was called project Grand Touring 40, with the 40 representing the overall height in inches of the car.
It lost miserably to Ferraris in 1964, and wasn't even adequate at high speed, so the car was redesigned and the engine changed to the 7-litre V8 from a Ford Galaxie.
They weren't winning in 1965 either. But anyway, that is how the Lola evolved into the GT 40
http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/06/this-time-its-personal-ford-at-le-mans-66-69/
Ford powered the Cobra, and also a Lola MkVI GT
After looking at Cooper and Lotus at the beginning of 1963, Ford fixed its eye on Lola: the relationship was cemented with the supply of two MkVIs to the mothership in the US and a transatlantic knowledge exchange. Ex-Aston Martin team manager John Wyer was also brought in to head up the new team: a name that would take Ford to its highest success and make the blue and orange of Gulf Oil perhaps the best-known sportscar livery ever.
Construction of the initial Ford GT began at Lola in the UK, prior to the formation of the dedicated Ford Advance Vehicles. The same 4.2-litre Ford Fairlane engine from the MkVI Lola was transplanted into the new car, and the iconic body began to take shape. This initial variant was narrow and long, though the rear three-quarters and slashed rear aspect are still instantly recognisable. It was called project Grand Touring 40, with the 40 representing the overall height in inches of the car.
It lost miserably to Ferraris in 1964, and wasn't even adequate at high speed, so the car was redesigned and the engine changed to the 7-litre V8 from a Ford Galaxie.
They weren't winning in 1965 either. But anyway, that is how the Lola evolved into the GT 40
http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/06/this-time-its-personal-ford-at-le-mans-66-69/
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Saturday, March 05, 2016
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Stolen in a parking lot, engine ripped out destroying the surrounding chassis/body, and making the car beyond repairing for competitive racing, the Penske Sunoco Lola t70 Mk 3b
The Penske team had won the Daytona 24 six weeks earlier in a T70 and hoped to win Sebring but it was not to be when the rear suspension succumbed to the rough Sebring circuit.
However, both Chevrolet and sponsor Sunoco wanted Penske to go to Le Mans so the car was put on the transporter for the trip to the garages in Philadelphia. Unfortunately the crew driving the truck stopped in Ormond Beach, FL for some rest and relaxation (bar hopping) and when they awoke the next day the car was gone.
The shell of the car was found a day later but the engine and most of the other equipment were gone. The thieves had literally cut the engine from the frame ruining the car and ruining any chances of taking the car to Le Mans.
The immaculately prepared Penske Lola T70 Mk. 3B at Sebring in 1969.
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