Lola T70S
In 1969, a Lola T70 crossed the finish line at Daytona first overall, beating the Ford GT40 and the Porsche 908 in what racing historians call the Golden Era. Steve McQueen was famously photographed in one for Sports Illustrated in 1966. Mario Andretti raced one. Now Lola is building 16 more. The T70S revival splits across a track-only race car and a road-legal GT, both built on Eric Broadley's original 1964 aluminum monocoque with period-correct Hewland transaxle and double wishbone suspension. The track car runs a 5.0-liter small-block Chevy V8 making 530bhp, hitting 60mph in 2.5 seconds and topping out at 203mph. The GT swaps in a 6.2-liter Chevy, adds climate control and UK road registration, and still reaches 200mph. The defining detail on both is the bodywork: Lola's patent-pending Natural Composite System combines plant fibers from Northern European agriculture with basalt from volcanic rock, bound in a fully plant-based resin, the world's first 100% petrochemical-free bodywork, outperforming both fiberglass and carbon fiber.
