Lola 290 HU13 ?

[Wolfgang]

Dear Lola Team!

May you will help to give a answer about the questien: "Build Lola a chassis number HU 013 of the T290?"

Best Regards
Wolfgang

[driftwood]

its unlikely unlucky number

[Gerald Swan]

Hello Wolfgang, I'll see if I can find out what the Lola Chassis record says. Driftwood is right that for many types Lola seem not to have built a number 13 but they did sometimes especially on the early cars.

Gerald

[driftwood]

also can you check records to see if the 290 cars where ever returned to factory for repairs JoBo was lola agent but maybe cars came back to the UK
also how many chassis where sold to replace accident damage to Jobo company during the 72-74 seasons??

[Wolfgang]

Yes, driftwood, this is very a interest aspect!
I read in the book "LOLA the illustratedhistory 1957-1977" from Jon Starkey & Ken Wells: Page 120: ".. Guy Edwards ran a works-blessed Barclay T290 (his need for about eight tubs the previous year had obviously worked!) ....

[driftwood]

I know the man who was his mechanic for the Barcley years the looked after the hu22 car for Dorset racing

the 1971 season had Edwards in lola 212 car

[Gerald Swan]

Sorry, completely forgot to answer to answer this , Glyn has checked the factory records and there wasn't a number 13 built.

Gerald.

[driftwood]

as i suspected!!

[Wolfgang]

Gerald, thank you for this information.
Do you find out the chassis nomber of the T290 presented in the Paris Race Car Show Januar 1972? Is it nomber HU 001 ??

Wolfgang

[driftwood]

i suspect it is hu1
did this car actually race?

[Wolfgang]

HU001 was in the C.E.R. race in Istanbul-Park 11-13 November 2005 with a 3 l engine, but the engine do not started. The wether was very cold and wet .......
Wolfgang

[driftwood]

im not sure on that car
there was 1 290 modified to take 3 litre
Yvan Mahe has tried to say he has 280 hu1 !!!

[Wolfgang]

the car in Istanbul 2005 was T290 HU 001 modified to 3 l engine and like a T280 to fit the bigger engine
Wolfgang

[driftwood]

yes but is the car 290 or 280
I believe he is trying to tell us its 280 hu1 not 290 hu1
the car has 280 front anti roll bar brakes
he runs the car without chassis plate

we al know HU1 and HU2 280 cars where Ecurie Bonnier cars and JoBo was killed in 1 of these cars the other car is in USA before that it was in sweden

[Wolfgang]

Autosport 13. Januar 1972, page 10, print a story from Buenos Aires. Jeff Hutchinson wrote: ".... Because the race is run so early in the year, the number of true 3-litre cars was disappointing with only the new Lola T280 anything really new. The cassis is very similar to original T210 construction with a monocoque centre section running back to the rear bulkhead, on to which is bolted a tubular sub-frame. This enables the car to be simply converted to either 2- or 3-litre form while the rest remains the same ....."

You see, its not so easy to find out its a T290 or T280!

Wolfgang