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Showing posts with label Can Am. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Can Am. Show all posts
the 1968 ZL1 engine... ever wonder why GM made less than 100? Sure is a lot of r and d, and millions of dollars of engineering and production involved in rolling out a new engine, to install 4 in production cars, and sell the rest to racers.
well, consider that GM wasn't "really" out of racing.Then consider that 69 were put in COPO Camaros for racing, and I don't even know how many they made and sold to Can Am racers.Yeah, I think it's obvious that GM was out to win, and Jim Hall's Chaparral's were the motivation to get them made, but,...
Canadian John Cannon, in the McLaren Mk2B, in the 4th race of the 1968 Can Am season, at the Monterey Gran Prix didn't just win, he defeated all competition
http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/JHawes0005.htmlit started raining, and Cannon had been the Firestone rain tire test driver.He went out and ran laps two to four seconds faster than Denny Hulme and Bruce...
Ever hear about the sabotage in the garages at the 1969 Can Am race at Riverside?
Controversy surrounding the 12th Riverside Grand Prix. According to one documented account, the Group 7 unlimited horsepower cars driven by Chris Amon and Lothar Molschenbacher "had been tampered with" prior to the $70.000 Oct. 26 Canadian-American Challenge Cup race. Amon, veteran Formula...
The Holman Moody Honker, tested by Andretti, and he called it the worst race car he'd ever driven
Andretti praised Holman Moody for exceptional Nascar racers, and he should know...he won in Nascar too, but he said they didn't get it with sports cars. Again, he knows these things.Here's something...
Dan Gurney, Ford loyalist that he was, had been struggling for the last two years trying to get a decent Ford engine in his McLeagle but Ford wouldn’t spend the money.
Once he was turned down for a copy of the 429’er 8.1 liter that Mario Andretti had, he finally sold his soul and got a 7-liter Chevy for his McLeaglehttp://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130...
Mario Andretti with the M6B, the “429’er, actually 494 ci, 8.1 liters
They claimed 720 horsepower from this monster and Andretti said he could get wheelspin in any gear any time; he said the acceleration was so great he had trouble reaching the gearshift.Unfortunately,...
Joe Leonard driving the McKee Mk. 14, a four-wheel drive special with an automatic transmission and a twin-turbo 7.5-liter Oldsmobile
It turned out to have too much power for its brakes and was withdrawn, never to be seen againhttp://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-521...
Starting grid for the 1968 "Fuji Can-Am" with Revson (#52), Parsons (#10), Follmer (#16), Unser (#3)
and the pace car was a convertible Mustanghttp://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-521...
Can-Am 1965. Riverside. Bruce McLaren is about to pass Graham Hill .
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-521...
Can Am 1966, it's easy to understand why those who were winning the series, were in the lead
After Riverside and onto Las Vegas (5 down 1 to go) it was clear that the driver/engineers were the only ones in contention for the championship.How about that, engineers that were into racing. Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, John Surtees, Bruce McLaren, and Mark Donohue.I wonder if anything...
the only driver I ever heard of that owed the team driver to not drive!
Roger Penske was smart, and experienced, and put a buy out clause in the contract he signed drivers up with... and when Chris Amon bailed before the 1966 season started, as he was a driver for Scuderia Ferrrari in F1as a second stringer, when Bandini was killed in Monaco, and Enzo called him up to...
Another reason to respect the Chaparral in 1967
Unlike the other car makers, the Jim Hall racing operation wasn't based in the middle of a race car building center. (think Los Angeles, Indianapolis). It was a small outfit in Texas, where there was no racing infrastructure, or resources.It was competing with Ferrari, Lola, etc... and here is the...
the Porsche 917 in the "hippie" colors
In 1970, it was Martini Racing’s Hans-Dieter Dechent who offered his factory 917-043 for Porsche’s recently appointed designer, Anatole Lapine, to decorate.Departing from the planned white-with-red ‘script’,...
that 1st year of Can Am, they realized real fast that they didn't have the downforce needed at the speeds they were now attaining, and had to improvise some front air dams fast, to keep the nose down when cresting hills at 160 + mph
Can Am racing at the Stardust in Las Vegas... when the cars were innovating from race to race, and had little time to test things. Skip the 1st 7 minute to get right to the race
check the awesome variable pitch wing on the white car at the beginning of this part 2 video, it was integrated with the brakes to add much needed extra down force in the cur...
