The Queen has paid her tribute; we’ve paid ours – now it’s time for Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart and others familiar with Dewis’s work to explain why he so deserved his recent Order of the British Empire.
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Yep, we’ve all seen it: the Giulia-wielding Italian police hopelessly pursuing Charlie Croker’s gold-laden Minis in The Italian Job. In reality, short work would have been made of the trio, for the Italian police forces, particularly the enigmatic Carabinieri (the national military police), were – and still are – a force to be reckoned with.
The 40 classics selected range from the dawn of the motor car (including the earliest Lagonda) right the way through to the relatively modern era, with classics such as the Jaguar XJ220 and Bugatti EB110 supercars.
Given the values of Lola T70s today, you could be forgiven for writing off the two cars that appear in Lucas’s 1971 dystopian cult classic THX 1138 as glassfibre replicas, particularly as kitcar company FiberFab was listed in the credits. But at least one is known to be a genuine T70: chassis SL73/117. First sold as a road car in 1967, it was soon passed on to American actor James Garner’s racing team, where it entered several endurance races and came 2nd at the 1969 Daytona 24 Hours.
