Anyone recognize this Lola F5000?

marinmcgreevy · 15 Jan 2006, 23:46 (Ref:1502006)

Looking for any history of the car shown. It is a Lola T140 F5000. It is Chassis number 140/9. The car was from Chuck Haines of Can Am cars in 1987. I have no knowledge of the prior history. I do have a period photo of the car on some racetrack. Can anyone identify the track? Does anyone recognize the car? The color is maroon/purple metallic. The car looks the same today.

Below is a period photo of the car. Is this Riverside?

Here is the chassis plaque today:

Any help would be appreciated.

allenbrown · 20 Jan 2006, 15:32 (Ref:1505301)

I'm surprised nobody has had a stab at identifying that circuit. I would have thought the horizon would have been distinctive.

I searched my database for Lola T140s wearing #59 but nothing came up. Dave Heinz used 59 on some occasions but his car was a T142, not a T140, and was bright yellow.

Any other clues amongst the paperwork you inherited?

Allen

marinmcgreevy · 25 Jan 2006, 01:39 (Ref:1508531)

I have just found out some more information. The third owner was Ken Petrie of Englewood Colorado. Could the track be in Colorado?

allenbrown · 25 Jan 2006, 09:22 (Ref:1508650)

Hi Evan

Ken has run cars in vintage racing as well as being a AIS stalwart. He's still active in USSS, the successor series, and can be contacted via Precision, his company. Do you know roughly when he owned the T140?

I'd guess the photo above is taken in the early 1970s as there aren't the usual decals that vintage racing cars seems to acquire and I'd guess Ken didn't own it until the 1980s at the earliest.

Allen

Chris Townsend · 7 Feb 2006, 09:53 (Ref:1517091)

Looking at the horizon, and comparing it with that in the shot of a Ted Titmas BT40
in an SCCA meet that I recently received, I wonder if the circuit might be
Las Vegas... [not the one in the car park...]

Chris

rescue dude · 7 Feb 2006, 10:58 (Ref:1517147)

I assume you,ve seen this, http://www.oldracingcars.com/f5000/lola/t140.htm

allenbrown · 7 Feb 2006, 11:05 (Ref:1517153)

Yes, I'm pretty sure Evan, Chis and I have all seen that page.

Allen
OldRacingCars.com

Chris Townsend · 7 Feb 2006, 13:49 (Ref:1517282)

That was indeed the page I was talking about.
the other possibility that springs to mind is that it might be Bonneville
I believe that SCCA races were held there in the 1970s and again the skyline
is pretty similar.
Weird reference point time: Bonneville gets used as a location in Vincent Gallo's
recent ego vehicle [sorry "film"] The Brown Bunny, so you get a good look at the
locale. Along with some footage of a bike race at what I take to be Pocono this is
the one redeeming feature of the film.

Chris

allenbrown · 9 Feb 2006, 22:37 (Ref:1519230)

Evan's got the answer so to put the rest of you out of your misery, the answer is Pueblo Raceway - in 1977.

Now all we have to do is find a man called Jim Bracket who owned the T140 up to 1976. He also owned the T142 that Larry Detrich now owns in New Zealand.

Anybody recognise the name?

Allen

R59 · 15 Feb 2006, 08:07 (Ref:1523154)

I must say thats a fine number on that car.

Mike Engstrand · 3 Oct 2006, 19:44 (Ref:1726879)

Looks like Arlon AJ Koops blue school bus in the back ground.

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