A Visual History of Can-Am, the Greatest Racing Series Ever
WEBOct 25, 2016 · The Can-Am cars evolved from those used in SCCA’s U.S. Road Racing Championship (USRRC) series, which mostly involved stuffing a high-powered American V-8 into lightweight racing chassis.
Can-Am - Wikipedia
WEBThe Can-Am cars were developments of the sports cars which were introduced in 1964 for the North American sports car races. The team works car for 1964 was the M1. For 1965 the M1A prototype was the team car and bases for the Elva customer M1A cars.
Can-Am Racing - The Ultimate Guide - Sports Car Digest
WEBThe first Can-Am race was on September 1966 and at the end of that first season it was John Surtees who was crowned the champion after winning three of the races. For 1967, McLaren entered a...
Can-Am Racing – History & Ultimate Guide - Sports Car Digest
WEBAug 8, 2009 · The Can-Am series began in 1966 with two races in Canada (CAN) and four races in the United States of America (AM) for what were to become known as Group 7 sports cars.
Historic Can-Am Association
WEBThe Historic Can-Am Association, HCAA, celebrates, promotes and organizes feature races at great vintage racing events for the original era 1966-1974 great, unlimited, powerful, fast Can-Am cars of the original Can-Am series.
Fifty years later, there's still no racing like the original Can Am ...
WEBFeb 5, 2016 · Today, the Historic Can-Am Association runs a series of vintage events in the U.S. and Canada, allowing fans to experience the ground-shaking violence of the cars from Can-Am’s early years. On July 14-17, the group will run its 50 th Anniversary Can-Am feature race at Road America, held in conjunction …
Can-Am Racing - Sports Car Digest
WEBThe wildest racing series ever created. The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an SCCA/CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1987 and it featured the fastest, most powerful...
The Single-Seat Can-Am 1977-1986 - OldRacingCars.com
WEBThe Single-Seat Can-Am 1977-1986. The original Can-Am, rightly regarded as one of the high points of post-war sports car racing, collapsed in 1974 after two dismal seasons.
Can-Am's glory days - Motor Sport Magazine
WEBDec 1, 2014 · It was a pleasure to watch Bruce McLaren race his first Can-Am car, the Oldsmobile-powered, Cooper-based ex-Zerex Special, followed by the arrival of the curvaceous McLaren M1A, then the more purposeful M1Bs raced by Bruce and Chris Amon in 1966, the first year the Can-Am series was run.
Group 7 Can Am Sports Cars of the 1960s - MotorMavens
WEBThe real Can Am racers were FIA Group 7 sports cars that ran at racetracks in Canada and the United States (Can-Am, get it?) from 1966 to 1987. Can Am cars had sleek, curvaceous bodylines, monstrous V8 engines with bad ass velocity stacks sticking up right behind the driver’s head, and the wheels!
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