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[Cheater]

This short video from 2018 ended way too soon for me...

 

[Isaac S.]

Very cool, I love vintage racing.  The #1 thing on my 1/1 car bucket list is going to the Monterey Historics. 

 

They canceled the Indy Vintage Reunion this year so I missed that which was very sad. They also canceled MCACN in Michigan which was heartbreaking.  

[Martin]

McLaren has been my favorite brand since I was in art class, 1968. Trying to capture that Papaya orange in a oil painting. Harder that it looks because it seems to fade to a deeper orange as it drops into shade.

 

Then my fastest slot car had the M8b body that is in my profile pic.

 

[Zippity]

One of the highlights of our one month odyssey to the West Coast of the USA in 2003, was my pilgrimage to Laguna Seca Raceway.
 
I walked over the bridge at the world famous "Corkscrew" and cried like a baby thinking of all those greats who had raced there, especially Bruce and Denny.    
 
Any more Can-Am videos, Greg?

[Dave Crevie]

Fantastic video, and you are right. It ended way too soon.

The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the greatest racing series ever there was. Big engines and big balls. Being out on the track with them is the greatest thrill of all time. As they come up to pass you, you can feel your car being pushed aside by the air these cars displace. Once they are passed, you get sucked into their slipstream. So you learn to give them plenty of room.

Wish I had taken some movies or video.

[Cheater]

Any more Can-Am videos, Greg?

There are a lot of them on YouTube, Ron. When I see a good one, I bring it over here.

[993]

From a few years ago at a McLaren reunion at Laguna Seca.

[Zippity]

So cool   

[John Luongo]

those corners come up VERY quickly.  need balls like coconuts to drive those.

[Highnoon]

I remember going to my first USRC Race at mid-Ohio in 1964 with Hap Sharp winning in a chaparral. I was hooked, dad took me to all the races there, I remember Lothar Motchebacker winning in a mclaren Oldsmobile in 1966 then my favorite uSRA car of Mark Do hue in a Lola in the blue and yellow paint.  But my favorite mid Ohio race was 1969 when Chris Amon in the Ferrari 612p, favorite can am car  battling with Jo Sifferet a Porsche 917. The McLarens  won but never liked them. I moved to California in 1970 and saw the best Can Am race ever for cool cars at Riverside California in 1970. Vic elf Ors qualified 2 seconds faster than the McLarens but broke, Jackie Oliver in the TI22 got second to McLaren and there was BRMs and Ferraris, it was very cool. But like most things it got boring as McLarens dominated. The Porsche panzer blew them away and then it ended,