by Johan » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:57 am
Nice informative article.
"SL71/47 is documented, through a bill of sale that I have seen, as being sold from Penske's team headquarters on March 29th, 1969 to John Marr, who kept it for several years before selling it to Nick Engles. I have spoken to both gentlemen and both remember having owned it. John Marr distinctly remembers seeing the car at the New York Auto Show and talking to Mark Donohue on the phone after seeing an Ad in, he thinks, "Autoweek" for the Lola. John Marr remembers Mark Donohue telling him that the Lola was: "raced just a few times by George Follmer. Follmer crashed the car, it was then retired" and later used as a show car in the 1969 New York Auto Show". John Marr then recalls going to Philadelphia from New York, following Donohue in his "hot rodded 1967 Camaro" and ending up at the team's headquarters, where he viewed, and then bought, the car."
I can't imagine anything neater than trying to follow Mark in a Camaro to go look at his T70 for sale. I bet that no matter hor quick it was, that was a long trip for Mr. Marr.