Trivia: All Encompassing Edition
This edition of trivial trivia is all encompassing because the subject manufacture has produced race cars in so many different forms of racing.
With 2008 being it’s anniversary year as Great Britain’s longest-serving manufacturer it has produced winning machines in the club classes to Formula One, endurance sports racers and Indy Cars.
The most famous version of the marquee was produced between the years 1965 through the 1969 sports car season. If you must know the model depicted is not that version, it was produced in the late fifties. The most well known version would be a dead give away to many people.
The Marquee holds nine CART/OWRS championship titles, three Indianapolis 500 wins and one USAC Triple Crown, eight US/European/Tasman Formula 5000 titles, a victory in the Monaco Formula Junior Grand Prix, the Can-Am Challenge series, the Daytona 24 Hours, the European 2-litre Sportscar Championship, five successive Can-Am titles, eight Japanese Formula 3000 crowns.
A diverse line-up of drivers piloted this brand that including John Surtees, Roger Penske, the late Mark Donohue, Jo Bonnier, Brian Redman, Al Unser, David Hobbs, Jo Siffert, Hitoshi Ogawa. In later years they were wheeled to victory by Arie Luyendijk, Mark Blundell, Nigel Mansell and Ukyo Katayama.
There you have it. What manufacture is it?
The first person with the correct answer will win your choice of a 1975 AMC Pacer (origin unknown, condition unknown), or a luxurious 1950’s style bath tub.
If you happen to correctly identify both the manufacture and the correct model and year of the car pictured above you will be eligible to carry home both prizes.
(DISCLAIMER: For those that may happen to believe the prizes are redundant, that an AMC Pacer and a bath tub are too similar, to bad, get over it. Although similar in speed, looks, and shape, a ’50’s style tub came in a single color, the Pacer came in a wide variety of colors.)
1959 LOLA MARK I
Please give the Pacer to a Charity. LOL
I take showers so keep the bathtub.
Much to easy!
Much too easy my butt.
DAMN you Google!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!
BTW the charity said they don’t take “charity cases” like a Pacer.
“BTW the charity said they don’t take “charity cases” like a Pacer.”
Hence the LOL
I’m an old fart - that’s why I knew it was a Lola, but Google Images confirmed Year and Mark.
Actually I’ve been checking out the Westfield 11 lately and I knew it wasn’t a Lotus, plus there wasn’t to many others manufactures building small bore sports racers from that era.
Lola, what a great history & a farcical ending. Eric Broadly rushed into F1 a year to early in 97, with a hastily conceived chassis & what turned out to be flawed funding from Mastercard. Trivia question, who were the two drivers that filled the seats & failed to qualify at the team
Ricardo Rosset and Vincenzo Sospiri were at the wheel of the Lola T97/30. Assuming you can call someone being “at the wheel” of a car that failed to move. At least within 107% of (OMG this can’t be!) Jacques Villeneuve!
But hey, they had tens of millions from MasterCard, too bad it wasn’t used to produce better gearboxes and aerodynamics.
I caught this too late to leave a valid guess. Those late 50’s-very early 60’s sports cars are my all time favorites. On the driver front, Jackie Stewart had some memorable drives in Can-Am Lolas sposored by L&M. Those cars had some of the funkiest wings - both front and rear - ever to sprout from a race car. Nice contest Marc.
Don’t know what to tell ya Charlie, phastphil smoked this one a scant 24 hours after it was posted. (Damn Google!)
Way faster than I ever expected.
“But hey, they had tens of millions from MasterCard, too bad it wasn