Paddy Driver in Doug Serrurier's Lola T140. Copyright Rob Young 2004. Used with permission.

Invoice date 26 Jan 1968 (sold to 'Serrurier'). Driven by Jackie Pretorius SA 1968 (Gurney Ford engine: 10 races, 1 win), SA 1969 (1 race); Paddy Driver SA 1969 (Gurney Ford engine: 10 races), 1970 (2 races), Pretorius again SA 1970 (1 race) and Basil van Rooyen SA 1970 (1 race). Sold to Leo Dave SA 1970 (5 races). Dave rolled this in practice Natal Winter Trophy 5 Jul 1970. F1R show it returning with Dave at Highveld "100" (R2 Kyalami 30 Jan 1971). To the Domingo team but exact usage unknown. May have been kept as a rent-a-drivecar. This is the car sold to Bryan Meano early 1972 so it is presumably the "T142" he drove in 1971. Meano SA 1972 (1 race only). Subsequent history unknown.

Jerry Hansen's T140 approachs Corner 13 at Road America in the Badger 200 in 1968. Copyright Tom Schultz 2006. Used with permission.

Invoice date 27 Feb 1968 (sold to 'Haas'). Jerry Hansen 1968 (R1 26 May - adv 30 Nov) - John Mahler 1969. Subsequent history unknown but in 1972, Wayne "Bing" Sherer (Buffalo, NY), acquired a crash-repaired T140 that he was told was ex-Mahler. Assisted by Ralph G. LoCurcio, Sherer built up the car for the 1972 season, racing in SCCA Nationals at Lime Rock and Bridgehampton. Sold at the end of the season.

John Amm's T140 is ushed through the paddock. Note the 1970-spec low wings and nose wings, quite unlike the red #25 Domingo T140 shown elsewhere on this page. Copyright Doug Brown 2005. Used with permission.

Invoice date 31 Aug 1968 (sold to 'Scribante'). Driven by Dave Charlton SA 1968 (Chev engine: 2 races, won on debut), SA 1969 (8 races, 1 win). To Peter Parnell SA 1970 (2 races) then driven by John Amm SA 1970 (Chev engine: 3 races) when Parnell bought the Lotus 49. Sold to Mike Domingo and driven, still with its Chev engine, at the Rhodesian GP (R9 Bulawayo 13 September 1970). This car was referred to as a T142 by Motoring Mirror in late 1970 so this would match the "T142-Chev" raced by Mike Domingo through the latter half of 1971. Known to be the car ("ex-Charlton Lola T142") used by Joe Domingo at the Coronation 100 in April 1972 so presumably the car used by Mike in 1971 and Joe in 1972. Subsequent history unknown but Solly Domingo, MIke and Joe's father, is reported to have kept one of the T140/142 cars and with cars having apparantly been sold to Bryan Meano and Peter Haller, this may well be the one.

The Avallone sports car racing in Brazil. This car was built on Lola SL140/16. Original photographer unknown. Copyright Marcos Sacoman 2006. Used with permission.

Invoice dates 18 Sep 1968 (sold to 'Avallone') and 13 Dec 1968. Antonio Carlos Avallone (Brazil) UK 1969 (3 races); UK 1970 (1 race only - crashed and burnt at Oulton Park 27 Mar and 'written off'). It is reported that the car was then reworked at the Lola factory and fitted with a Lola T165 Can-Am body for use as an "Avallone" sports car in Brazil. It appears to have been the prototype for a series of such sports cars. The T140 was soon rebodied with a T222 body ordered from Lola and fitted with a 318 ci Chrysler engine. In this form, the T140/T222 won many domestic sports car races in Brazil and was Brazilian champion four times, the last being in 1974. Carlos Avallone died in January 2002 and his remaining cars were acquired by Marcos Sacoman (São Paulo, Brazil). Retained 2006 although the exact ownership is unclear and aspects of the history were disputed on 10 Tenths in Feb 2006.

The Team Domingo T70/140 - or is it a T142 - in the paddock at the 1971 Rhodesian GP. Note the lack of wings which would suggest it is not the ex-Charlton/Parnell SL140/14. Copyright Doug Brown 2005. Used with permission.

Doug Serrurier bought the ex-Mike Taylor/David Good 1965 Lola T70 (chassis SL70/5) with its 4.7-litre Ford Weslake engine for sports car racing in South Africa and raced it until it was crashed by teammate Jackie Pretorius in the 1969 Roy Hesketh 3 Hour race. Serrurier then converted the car into a Formula A T140 using the running gear, its Ford Weslake engine and Hewland LG gearbox. He didn't use the "T/70/140" but sold it to the Domingo Bros. It was driven by Mike Domingo at the Bulawayo "100" (SA R5 Bulawayo 21 June 1970) and was then Alan Domingo's drive at the Rhodesian GP (R9 Bulawayo 13 September 1970). Presumably then the car then driven by Joe Domingo from the Natal Winter Trophy (R7 Roy Hesketh 4 July 1971) onwards. The Team Domingo equipe had three Lola T140-series cars during 1971, SL140/14-Chev bought from Peter Parnell, the ex-Leo Dave SL140/4-Ford and this T70/T140-Ford. The car show in Doug Brown's photograph here is taken at the 1971 Rhodesian GP. The lack of wings implies it isn't the ex-Charlton/Parnell SL140/14.

According to a letter from Serrurier dated 8 Jul 1991, the T70/T140 then went from the Domingos to Peter Haller and was converted into a dragster racer by "a man named Delport". Johan van der Merwe, Janie van Aswegen and Ivan Glasby are all mentioned as owners of what Serrurier called "the sorry remains" during the 1980s before it was purchased by "A. R. Culpin" in 1989. The T70 origins of these remains were now more important than its T140 interlude so the parts were combined with new T70 body panels and the whole project was sold to David Harvey of GT40 Replications Ltd (New Zealand) in July 2003. The car had been completed as a new T70 by 2005 and is retained by Harvey 2007. With its remaining parts in the T70, the T140 no longer exists.

John Gunn in the Badger 200 at Road America in 1968. Copyright Tom Schultz 2006. Used with permission.

John Gunn US 1968 (R2 16 Jun; last seen 25 Aug 1968). Subsequent history unknown but likely to be the Hood car in 1969.

David Pabst's Lola T140 in the Badger 200 at Road America in 1968. Copyright Tom Schultz 2006. Used with permission.

David Pabst (Milwaukee National 30 Jun; R3 27 Jul; last seen 25 Aug 1968 when wrecked).

John Hood's oddly orange Lola T140 at Blackhawk Farms in July 1969. Copyright Tom Schultz 2006. Used with permission.

John Hood (Orlando, FL) SCCA Nationals 1969 (first seen Roebling Road Raceway - 11 May 1969 and had 15 pts in Nationals in "Lola"; ARRC 29 Nov 1969), US 1969, SCCA Regional 1970, US 1970. Not seen again but advertised as T140 29 Jan 1972.

Nick England's excellent VIR history website contains a picture of Hood's car at VIR in April 1969. The colour, mirror locations and even the location of decals matches that of John Gunn's T140 almost precisely, except that a higher roll hoop has been added. The orange colour shown in the picture here must have come later. Adding this evidence to the coincident location of the two drivers makes it highly likely that Gunn's car passed to Hood.

Subsequent history unknown.

Dan Harper's Lola T140 at Laguna Seca 1971. Copyright Al Moore 2002. Used with permission.

Dan Harper US 1971 (one race only: R2 Laguna Seca 2 May 1971 - "T140"). Also appeared on the entry list for the equivalent fixture in 1972 (R1 Laguna Seca 7 May 1972 - "T142"). Nothing more known but the Dan Harper who drove this car is still active in the motor trade in Eureka, CA in 2006 and we hope to learn more.

Phil Henny met up with his old friend Don Dierking in early 2007 and passed on this history of Don's Lola T140.

He purchased Lola T 140/2 from Carl Haas in Santa Ana in 1969 through Charlie Hayes. The car was a roller NEW! He took it to Roy Campbell to install a 5.0 liter Chevrolet engine, 48 DCOE Webers, heads by Louie Unser. He won the first race he entered at P.I.R. in Arizona as a novice. Then won again in 1970 at Laguna Seca in 1971. Roy Campbell modified the water pipes, placing them outside the body work. Also redid body panels in aluminum to replace the fiberglas. He sold the T 140/2 to a SCCA staff officer in Scottsdale AZ in 1972.

Don later confirmed to Phil that he bought the car on Easter weekend 1969 (5-6 April) and that it was red.

The exposed stripe on Lucien's SL140/13. Copyright Lucien Eddisford 2006. Used with permission.

The cockpit area of O'Neil's car in 1968. Copyright Tom Schultz 2006. Used with permission.

The identification of SL140/13 as Brian O'Neil's car is based on three pieces of information. Firstly, the date on the invoice for 140/13 matched the first appearance of O'Neil reasonably closely. Although the invoice date is two weeks after O'Neil's first know race, the invoice number and gearbox number imply that 140/13 was significantly earlier than 140/15.

The second clue was that O'Neil's car was one of very few to disappear early enough to be the car Ivan Newlin had in June 1969.

It had been possible to trace Lucien Eddisford's 140/13 as far back as Newlin and the base colour of the car matched the red of O'Neil's 1968 car. So, with O'Neil's car now an odds-on favourite, a careful physical examination was conducted to try to find traces of O'Neil's livery under the layers of paint on the car. The photograph shown here shows the white stripe high on the cockpit of the car - an exact match with the blurred photograph of O'Neil's car. The combination of these three pieces of information makes a compelling identification of SL140/13 as Brian O'Neil's car in 1968.