The Monterey Historic event saw the return of racing action between the ultimate Can-Am machines that includes McLarens, Lolas, Huffakers,...
Porsche 917/10 Porsche’s partnership with Roger Penske Racing which would blossom in 1972 actually had it’s beginning the year before...
McLaren M6 The first car, M6A-1, was completed and ready for testing at Goodwood on June 19, 1967, more that...
Porsche 917/30 McLaren, seeing the futility of going up against the might of the Porsche Can-Am effort without a turb-charged...
Autocoast TI22 Peter E. Bryant (1938-2009) was born in England, and at a young age he caught the racing bug. Wanting to make himself more marketable he took a class in welding. Bryant obtained his first job in the automobile racing industry in 1957, as an engineering intern with Lotus...
McLaren M8 Robin Herd had left and was replaced by Gordon Coppuck, who had worked earlier for the National Gas...
McLaren M20 From 1968 to 1971 the McLaren M8 and its derivatives had dominated the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series but...
Shadow DN4 “Don Nichols turned up in Can-Am in 1970 with that stupid car with tiny cotton-reel wheels, the first Shadow. He approached me, but I told him his car was rubbish. I said, ‘You’re going to run out of money with stupid projects like that. What are you doing,...
Ferrari 612 Can-Am Chris Amon never felt that the Ferrari 612 Can-Am ever reached its full potential. he always felt...
BRM P154 The car was designed and built in house to compete in the 1970 Can-Am series for Group 7...
Lola T70 Unlike Charles Cooper at Cooper Cars Lola’s Eric Broadley was quick to realize the sales potential for a car designed to accept a variety of production-based US engines. John Surtees and his early involvement with the Ford GT40 project, which had grown out of his Lola Mk6 GT...
Chaparral 2J Legend “according to Jim Hall” has the idea for the Chaparral 2J came to him through a child’s...
Chaparral 2H Looking back over the years you have to wonder how Jim Hall could have gotten it so wrong...
Chaparral 2E In 1966 Chaparral introduced the 2E for the Can-Am series. With its high mounted wing it was the car that changed racing forever. It scored a one-two finish at Laguna Seca with Phil Hill and Jim Hall driving. The 2E was brilliantly conceived. The wing was mounted high...
