Lola – The T70 & Can-Am Cars
Gordon Jones
Evro Publishing, £95
ISBN 9781910505533
ONE OF THE FIRST PLASTIC KITS I remember building as a lad was John Surtees’ Can-Am Lola T70 spyder. Even then I loved the shape though I had yet to see the beautiful coupé. (I’m ashamed to say that later when psychedelia was rife I painted the model in lurid swirls of fluorescent colour…)
That Surtees car and the mark it made in Can-Am – Surtees won three out of six races in 1966, becoming the inaugural series champion –