1967 Lola T70 Mk 3 Comes to Project Motor Racing

7. July 2026

Try Putting a Roof on That Thing

By the end of 1966, Lola’s Eric Broadley was giving himself some well-earned slaps on the back. The inaugural Can-Am season had proven a massive success for Lola, and it wasn’t much of a surprise. This was a championship built around scary tracks, big engines, big prize money, and a rulebook that played right into Lola’s hands.

A combo of proven British racing design and a very serious Chevy V8.

John Surtees had taken the T70 to the first Can-Am title in 1966, and that championship win didn’t go unnoticed by a market made of people who thought surviving a Can-Am race was a cool way to spend a weekend.

But Eric Broadley was an ambitious guy. With US orders pouring in, he decided to see if he could replicate the magic in Europe’s endurance racing scene.

Problem was, this was an entirely different set of problems. Rules, to begin with.

And long hours. Long enough for drivers to slowly discover that balls-to-the-wall becomes a lot less charming when you’ve been awake for twenty hours and the car is still trying to hurt you.

But Lola had its T70 all ready to go. The only thing it needed? A roof.

Enter the Mk 3

The T70 Mk 3 was Lola’s closed-cockpit answer to the endurance-racing world of the late ’60s. It kept all the ingredients that had already made the T70 Spyder a winner: an aluminium monocoque chassis, feather-light fibreglass bodywork, and a brawny Chevrolet V8. Because yes, the answer to all problems in motorsport (and life) is always eight American cylinders and a noise complaint.

That mix—British chassis know-how, an aero roof, and American muscle—is the Lola T70 Mk 3.

Fast Enough to Be Famous

The T70 Mk 3 went on to become one of the defining sports prototypes of the 1960s. More than 100 T70s were built across the different versions, from the open Mk II Spyder to the Mk 3 coupe and later Mk IIIB. It was, for Lola, another notch in its hugely successful customer racing programme.

If you had the money and the nerve—and a mechanic who didn’t scare too easily—Lola would sell you a very serious way to spend your weekends.

It became a favourite with privateers, a star of sports-car grids, and later one of the great shapes of historic racing. It also helped give the world one of motorsport’s most recognisable silhouettes: low nose, long tail, wide haunches, and just enough menace to make everything around it look as if they’d accidentally turned up to the wrong meeting.

In Project Motor Racing, the 1967 Lola T70 Mk 3 brings that same mixture of elegance and bad decisions. It looks smooth. But it’s a machine of its time: brutal, fast, unforgiving, and at its best in a sideways drift just this side of a massive shunt.

This is not a modern prototype with a hybrid system, a strategy engineer, and seventeen screens. This is old-school sports-car racing: big torque, low weight, and all about mechanical grip.

Yours to drive as part of the GT Icons Pack. Enjoy.

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