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1973 Lola T330 Can-Am car, 1986 Can-Am Series champion

Started by Quixotic , Jan 10 2011 09:13

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#1 Quixotic

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 09:13

Just found this on Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item230ccdb746

Interesting eh?????

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#2 Tim Murray

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 09:40

'... WON THE F5000 SERIES IN ENGLAND BY ALLAN JONES.'

Not quite - Jones won one race in it, but not the series. Old Racing Cars has a fuller history of the car on their Lola T330 page - scroll down to HU2:

http://www.oldracing....com/lola/t330/

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#3 Ray Bell

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 09:48

But don't you know?

'Race' and 'series' are almost inevitably interchangeable these days...

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#4 Quixotic

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:15

Sorry, Imeant for this to be in the Ebay thread

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#5 simonlewisbooks

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:51

Sorry, Imeant for this to be in the Ebay thread

Don't be sorry. I wouldn't have found it there ! Thanks for posting.
If only those bloody lottery balls would appear in the right order for once....

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#6 JacnGille

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 13:53

If only those bloody lottery balls would appear in the right order for once....

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#7 Vicuna

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 21:01

Ray is right about the interchangeability of 'series' and 'race'.

We have a former F5000 racer in NZ, who won one Gold Star race, now telling people he was Gold Star champion...

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#8 RA Historian

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 22:19

A very common occurrence, just like fish stories. Especially prevalent in race car ads and gatherings of old farts.
Tom

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#9 David McKinney

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 23:22

We have a former F5000 racer in NZ, who won one Gold Star race, now telling people he was Gold Star champion...

Is he making a comeback?

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#10 S A Dunbar

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 23:58

A very common occurrence, just like fish stories. Especially prevalent in race car ads and gatherings of old farts.
Tom

And "official" Hall of Fame announcements....

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#11 elansprint72

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 00:29

e-Bay seems like a very unlikely forum in which to place such an advertisement but, hey, what do I know? :rolleyes:

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#12 Vicuna

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 03:26

Is he making a comeback?

He's made it

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#13 David McKinney

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 07:02

Thought it was probably him you were talking about. I've known him a long time

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#14 Vicuna

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 08:44

Thought it was probably him you were talking about. I've known him a long time

Still the modest self effacing and handsome man he always was. And sane - did I mention sane?

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#15 Giraffe

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 09:35

Still the modest self effacing and handsome man he always was. And sane - did I mention sane?

What on earth has all of this to do with a Lola on sale on e-Bay?!?! :well:

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#16 simonlewisbooks

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 09:49

The terms "Grand Prix Champion" "Formula one champion" have been used with similar abandon in the media in reference to just about anyone who's ever started an F1 race.
A happy world these people live in - there is no need to be a race winner to be one of these "champions" :rolleyes:

Meantime I am crossing everything this weekend in the hope enough lotto balls appear to let me buy that Lola! :smoking:

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#17 RA Historian

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Posted 11 January 2011 - 14:51

The terms "Grand Prix Champion" "Formula one champion" have been used with similar abandon in the media in reference to just about anyone who's ever started an F1 race.
A happy world these people live in - there is no need to be a race winner to be one of these "champions"

Yep, see that all the time. Related is the annoying (to me, but I am easily annoyed) practice of the US promoters and especially race announcers to call the winner of the previous year's edition of any given race, "last year's champion". Champion? Last year's winner to be sure, but 'champion'?
Tom