Thread: Lola T222
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Old 26 Jul 2011, 02:45 (Ref:2931163)   #25
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Originally Posted by davidpozzi View Post
After the 72 season it was sold to Larry Johnson who raced it in SCCA class A sports racer.

Larry Johnson was contacted by Carl Haas about selling the car to Minoru Koybayashi, for display in japan Haas acted as agent.

The car was sold to Minoru Koybayashi shipped to Japan and was on display in his Restaurant Pit-In located in the city of Yamanashi. Remained there from some time from 1974 through the late 90's where it was sold at the Monterey Auction.
Larry Johnson raced in the 1975 (6th) and 1976 (3rd) SCCA Runoffs at Road Atlanta in ASR in his T222 and received an invitation for the 1977 Runoffs (did not arrive) in which his entry was a T222, so the car couldn't have gone to Japan until much later than 1974.
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