• The first Lola T70 completed • The first T70 to start a World Sportscar Championship race • In-period race history • Known ownership history • Restored by the ROFGO Collection in 2018/2019 • Present ownership since 2018 • Eligible for Peter Auto, Masters and Goodwood • FIA HTP to 2027 Lola's sublimely beautiful T70 spyder sports-racer is historically significant as winner of the first ever Can-Am Championship.

It was designed and manufactured by Lola Cars Ltd, of Bromley, Kent, a relatively young company that had been building competition cars for only seven years prior to the T70's introduction in 1965.

From humble beginnings – the prototype Mark 1 sports car emerged from a garage behind the Broadley family's tailoring shop in Bromley in 1958 – Lola Cars quickly established a winning reputation and grew to become a major force in world motorsport.

Eric Broadley, his cousin Graham and Rob Rushbrook, at whose garage premises the first customer production versions were made, were th...