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Re: "Lola" origins

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Subject: Re: "Lola" origins
From: Ric Johnson <johnsonr@dwx.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:36:00 -0500
At 07:06 PM 7/3/01 -0600, Jeff Boatwright wrote:
>BTW, does anyone know where the name "Lola" came from?

Sure do. Ironically it comes from a song from the Broadway musical "Damn 
Yankees".  Eric Broadley apparently liked the concept of "Whatever Lola 
Wants, Lola gets".

Not quite as creative as the origin of the Elva name, which is a 
contraction of the French phrase "Elle va" (She goes) <G>

Ric Johnson
Des Moines Valley Region SCCA
Iowa British Car Club
Age & Treachery Racing, Ltd.
'71 MGB, '74 MGB-GT, '75 MGB
(and a '94 Dodge Caravan Sport which I like to think of as a B.F. Mini-Cooper)

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