The Plan

Before restoring the car we want to assemble it in order to asses what needs to be modified, repaired or renewed. This way, we feel is the only way we can determine what we are dealing with as everything is in boxes. Since my dad, my brother and myself are all tall we plan to move the seat back and place fuel tank behind driver. This apparently has been done by other Lolas.

This picture shows the completed front and part of the rear suspension. Most hardware will be replaced with ANS aircraft high grade fasteners.

After we have "dry fitted" the car we will disassemble and catalog every part so that re-assembly will only take a fraction of the time it took to put it together. We will then strengthen chassis by adding steel tubing and sand it down, prime and lacquer it. Friends tell us lacquer is better than powder coating as it shows stress cracks by flaking off. A friend of my dad will build the engine to FC specs and help him put it in the car around Christmas. The body work will need allot of work and the nose is missing - but we can have that refinished in my dads boat building shop. We hope to have the Lola running by Spring.