"If you don't want to drive this car you are basically dead".

"Milky" (jordanmielke) 02/11/2015 at 21:18 • Filed to: EVO, COTY, Car of the year, track car, track car of the year

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EVO's Track Car of the year has a very surprising and VERY amazing entry, skip to 23:30 to see (and hear) it.

I had no idea these were for sale …… fuck I want a V8.

EDIT: why does the damn time imbed thing for youtube NEVER work in kinja?

Svend > Milky 02/11/2015 at 21:50

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Some nice stuff there.

http://broadleyautomotive.co.uk/

This is how companies should be started and run.

Eric Broadley.

http://broadleyautomotive.co.uk/the-legacy

Graham, eight months older than Eric, was a good organiser and Eric is quick to give his cousin credit for helping to get Lola Cars going. Eric had no interest in the family business, a prosperous gentlemen's outfitters in Bromley that was run by his father and two uncles. Instead of joining them, he had trained as an architect and was working as a quantity surveyor – but his passion and all his spare time and cash went into building and racing his specials. His 1172 Broadley Special came to be christened Lola, logically because of the popular refrain from a musical of those days: 'Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.' The Broadley Special era was immediately followed by his graduation to bigger things, the Lola Mk1 being the first complete car he designed and built. Eric was increasingly on his own by then, Graham having taken on the serious responsibility of running the family business. A front-engined 1100 sports-racer, usually Climax-powered, and with an aluminium body over a space-frame chassis, the Lola Mk1 was sensationally good, capable of beating Colin Chapman's brilliant Lotus 11s. Driving it himself, Eric became the first man to get round Brands Hatch in under a minute. A demand was created and that's how Lola Cars began, in modest circumstances, with bases in Bromley and Byfleet. The company was formally set up in 1958.

With links to the Ford GT40.

This performance attracted the attention of Ford, who were looking for a way to win LeMans, and offered Broadley a one-year deal to redesign the GT, with aid from Ford at Ford Advanced Vehicles, Slough ; it produced the GT-40 , different from the Mark 6 only in detail.

Wheelerguy > Milky 02/11/2015 at 23:55

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I could say that the Caterham 160 is a starter Pokemon.

Milky > Svend 02/12/2015 at 10:23

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That was long, but good read.

Svend > Milky 02/13/2015 at 02:02

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I think it's great to know the ancestry of cars and for an American the GT40 is quite something so to know the car that created the GT40 and it's pedigree adds a little something extra to it.

Some argue that the GT40 is American as Ford is American, yet designed, engineered and built by British people so I say why can't it be both of ours.