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£79,900
The ex-Allan Ross, Eric Broadley M.B.E. , 1959 Lola Mark 1-Climax Sports-Racing Two-Seater
United Kingdom • 14 Sept 2013
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This 1959 Lola Mark 1-Climax Sports-Racing Two-Seater, chassis number BY-2, was once owned by Eric Broadley, the founder of Lola Cars. It features a 1,216cc FWE Coventry Climax engine and a multi-tubular spaceframe chassis in Valspar primrose paint. The car requires recommissioning.
Condition
7
The car "Requiring recommissioning, this is a superb and very original example of the Lola Mark 1, offered here with impeccable provenance".
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BY-2
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Eric Broadley, now 84, is the doyen of British specialist racing car constructors.
Over many years his Lola Cars company reigned as the world's largest competition car manufacturer.
This Coventry-Climax FWE engined Lola Mark I – considered by many to be the most definingly pretty and best-proportioned of all front-engined small-capacity sports-racing cars of the 1950s – was actually used in period by Mr Broadley himself, and it is a car which he bought back for nostalgic reasons many years ago, and it is now offered here direct from his long-term ownership.
While popular history suggests that Eric Broadley took the name for his initial 1172 Formula sports-racing special from the title of the song popular at that time "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets" , it was in fact coined by Eric's cousin Graham because, as he said, whatever Lola wanted, Eric got.
Eric himself disliked the proposal and considered changing it, but other requirements took priority.
With Eric himself driving, the Lo...
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£79,900
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