History of a Lola T492 Sports 2000 chassis?

[911thillclimber]

Well, made the 1,000,000 hits, for me a real bonus.

Thread opened on 24 May 2008, a few days after I bought it home, about 16 years ago!

It started out trying to trace the total history of the car, it's owners, it's chassis numbers, and when that was done (took years) Lola authorizing the car's number.

It continued to the years of sorting the car out, 2 engine rebuilds and 3 gearbox rebuilds.
A few minor offs in the early days for various reasons, all my own fault, but from that came the cracking chassis set-up by Sean at McClurg Motorsport that gave such confidence.

Narrower wheels came and improved the manners no end.

From this has come 6 Championship Class wins in the recent years and an awful lot of other class awards.

The recent mega engine rebuild and upgrade hit 100 bhp/litre and a power to weight ratio of 320 bhp in 560 Kg, about 570 bhp/ton and a Big Bill too!

Thank you to all who have followed this adventure and have helped me reach these goals, Clive Brown and Driftwood in the early parts of the thread chasing successfully the chassis number down, Sean for the chassis and all the regular people who have posted encouragement, all so very much appreciated.

Most of all Trish who has been with me all along track side, sometimes in the garage even bleeding brakes, supply of coffee and all Team Managers do, and always supporting the effort!

Impossible without her.