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Hey, JL. It's spelled L-O-L-A  G-T
February 17, 2001
Sung to "Lola" by "The Kinks"

"I found her in a box when I was just a kid, she ran down the track and she  really slid, that's my Lola, L-O-L-A  Lola"
 
First, I want to say I just love the internet.  I couldn't remember who did "Lola"  so I jumped to my favorite search engine, typed in the words "she walked up to me and she asked me to dance" hit "phrase" and "go", the next thing that came up on my screen was "Lola", by the Kinks.  How cool is that?
 
Anyway. Hot wheels made one Lola body that I know of, a Red Line Lola GT 70. I don't want it, not interested in it, won't mention it again.  No, I want a Lola GT, Made in 1960 it is the precursor to the far more famous and now Hot Wheels represented Ford GT40 (how many of you know that the 40 in GT 40 stood for the overall height, in inches, of the car?) There were only three made. Of the Lola's that is. (one source says four) but they were none the less represented by a variety of slot car manufacturers such as Aurora, Atlas, Strombecker and Monogram.   JL. You're  making slot car bodies for my old style HO chassis, can you jump in with one? I keep trying, and occasionally succeeding in buying them on eBay but the price is going up. Do you know why?  Because they are about the BEST race body for Aurora Thunderjets ever made. At the
recently held "Fray" (Trish, a Link to Fray info, about half way down the page you will find a picture of a bunch of guys standing around a track.  I'm the one on the right in a yellow vest at bottom of page)  http://mr-bigstuff.com/howorld/archives/fray/2001/2001.html in Ferndale I would guess one in every three cars presented for "tech" before the race was a Lola. That's out of 3 cars per entrant, there were 94 entrants! that means at least 94 Lola's were entered in that slot car race!  So you see, since they stopped making them in the 60's, they are getting to be a bit scarce. Here's a link to a picture of one I'm "forced" to use do to lack of new ones for reasonable prices.