We're lucky to have lived through this Golden Era! There will never be another series like Can Am, or such great drivers

So sorry to see Riverside turn into a housing development. Loved NASCAR, TRANS AM and SCCA races out there years ago .

Folks listen to the names in this race............and Phil Hill on the mic...................legends all over the place

Geez what fantastic footage, my fellow countryman Bruce McLaren taking the win....i only went to Riverside once myself in 81. These days Bruce and Denny are very much remenbered(as are others in this race) certainly was the dust and the glory back then.😊

I remember watching the Bruce & Denny Show at Mosport that year. From Moss corner, on the first lap, we saw Denny bursting out of Corner 4 down into the Chute, around Moss Corner and up the straight at a speed that made people gasp! He was already 2 sec. ahead of Bruce in 1/2 a lap. He went on to build a huge lead. On the penultimate lap, Denny came up out of the Chute and ran up the embankment at Moss corner, demolishing the entire front end of the car. The audience groaned in disappointment, expecting Denny to climb out of the car. Instead, he backed out on the the track and, with broken suspension, a flat tire and shattered bodywork, he headed up the straight. I wondered why he'd bother trying to get back to the pits in a wrecked car, but, a couple of minutes later, he came out of Corner 4, down into the Chute and around Moss Corner, car shuddering, tires smoking, wheels askew, bodywork flapping, and up the straight at over 100mph. He had such a lead that he finished and won the race in a wrecked car. When asked what it was like to drive it in that condition, he said, "Made the steering a bit heavy".

Fortunate enough to be there. Great time for racing, maybe one of the best American racing series ever.

Racing will never be like that again. What great days those were. Such a great series with so many hot shoes running in it. And the cars were beasts. Sad that Bruce McLaren died a few years later.

The golden age of racing with multiple series, great drivers and evolving technology

Watching this makes me wish I was born 20 or 30 years earlier. California was racing heaven.

I love watching these. Can't stand the fact that so many of the top drivers would be dead with a couple years. McLaren, Donahue, Spence. Some days I'm amazed that any survived.

Hey "OldGuy", thanks for sharing this, very beautiful to us "OldGuys"

Oh boy, all my heroes. I'm 60 now but it seems like last year.

Thanks for leaving Despain in the edit, beautiful upload. If they ever revived CanAm it would have to be a far weaker series. Quality nostalgia, heyo to all the fans of cirque racing.

Absolutely fantastic footage! Thank you for sharing this! Can-Am was such a tremendous series, and I wish it had never died out.

This race is full of legends and being called by legends!

Great video. Thanks for posting. Those CanAm cars look gorgeous.

My man, I am so glad u put this collection on your channel. Thank you

What a driver line up WOW!

Besides the obvious interest in the Can-Am series and the associated names, two things about this old show really struck me: 1. Jim McKay had the knowledge and talent to instill interest in anything, from sports cars to cross country-skiing to barrel jumping; 2. ESPN used to offer more watchable programming on two channels than it does on all it's forms now, and all for just a mere fraction of what today's cable bill totals.

When "sports cars" were faster than formula 1. Amazing with the only rules were "four fenders and two seats" no one was killed during a race. TK

Brings back memories of watching the USRRC race at Pacific Raceways in 67 as a kid. The thunder of all those big blocks at the start made my insides feel like jelly. Donohue won easily, but I became fascinated by the Peter Gregg Porsche 906, the little two-liter car keeping pace with the big boys. When it downshifted into the uphill esses it said "oooooo, nooooo," a good ten years before Mr. Bill. ***** Good thing those weren't full windscreen cars or all the sandblasting could have stopped the race.

Thanks for your post Brother! I miss this stuff..REAL Motor Racing and a great camaraderie between all the competitors! I miss CanAm.

I've never seen the Chapparal's movable rear wing in action. Very cool!

I'm so thankful for the footage saved by VCR of races like this. What a great era of racing and the technological advances that took place in the late 60's with aero and tires. It's sad that people like Bruce McClaren were killed while trying to advance the technology that has revolutionized all Automotive designs.

Cool to see that rear wing of the Chaparral moving up and down!

OOHH boy those memories of Bruce ,Denny and Chris Amon make me proud to be a flying KIWI,those brave guys that drove those wild cars really were the at the peak of there careers and talant.I think a lot of todays race car drivers would die in the arse,if they had to tame those wild cars nowdays.Big names driving Big cars.Kia Kaha

I just finished watching over an hour interview with Jim Hall, here on You Tube as well. In the interview, he actually stands next to the car seen in this race. He explains how the wing worked and all... pretty ingenious. KZfaq in it's wisdom, pulled up the video next for me.

It's interesting to see that Paul Newman was at the race and actually sponsored the Honker in 1967. I've always thought that his interest in racing didn't start until he was in the movie "Winning", which was released in 1968.

That was great!!! Highlight for the Chaparral mobile wing and the 80's adverts :)

this was my 1st time ever watching a can-am race. Awesome! thank you for posting it.

Total Respect for those guys!..200 miles in hot dusty weather, oil on your face and mouth....the racers these days really are nowhere near the calibre of these drivers, nice to see a fellow Brit, john Surtees battling, what a time it must have been! 😎👍🏻🏁

Fantastic! Beautiful cars. Thanks for sharing, appreciate it a lot! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.

Hey.. thanks for posting this Riverside race..!

I never got to see this Can Am era but did get to see a lot of the cars at SCCA nationals, including the runoffs. I was mad for "A Sports Racers" as a boy!

9:00 holy mackerel is right!! that had to be 80 or 90 mph in reverse!! World Driving Champion is damn right. What amazing car control.

I was there and I still think this was the best racing series . . . ever! SCCA made a huge mistake when they dropped this series to go with Formula 5000.

Must have been a wild series. Sorry I missed it.

Excellent! You digitized this from your own tape?!?!? Thank you thank you thankyou. I saw few of the races from Road America in WI.. and was a big McLaren fan.

my mom went to this race, the first time Ive seen footage of it, yayyy!!!

Dahm... I mean I'm 18 years old and it shouldn't be normal to lust over this. But this is amazing.

The ABC Wide World of Sports that aired the auto races were a treat, indeed! Back then there were three TV networks in the US; with cable being limited to re-transmission of over-the-air TV to outlying residential areas in America. From what I recall in the 1960s into the '70s, live telecasts of motorsports events rarely happened. As racing fans, we had to settle for the week delay of the telecasts of races on Wide World of Sports.

Love that era and those Chaparrals

I was there, I was nine years old My dad had a formula B We would go there quite often

awesome footage! great job

Great footage with surprisingly good coverage for the period. Safety wasn't a major concern apparently....

This race was recorded on film at Riverside, where @23:12 you can briefly see a guy carrying a motion-film camera as was used by the other team members that filmed this race; it required lots of changes of film magazines for those cameras, as this was a non-stop race that lasted one-hour, 46 minutes.

I was there at turn 6 and down at turn 7 too. It was a great race. HOT! DUSTY! Crazy drunks in the infield.

I was at this race. I remember we were able to watch almost the entire race by walking around the outside of the pits. It's hard to believe the excitement of the Chaparrel with that gigantic wing. I remember after the race more people followed the Chaparrel into the pits than the McLaren. Jim Hall stepped out of the car, dropped his gloves and helmet unto the seat and climbed into the back seat of a big black limosine. Let the serfs deal with the car. I also remember how dismal that entire track and environs were, well displayed in the film.

I saw Jones win @ Lime Rock in the 1970 Boss 302 Trans Am. Dan Gurney, Mark Donahue, George Follmer, and Sam Posey all were racing. I was 10.

I worked that race. When Denny backed up onto the grass, he came verrrry close to running my fellow worker and I into the ground. We were watching the track, not watching our backs. I heard a rising engine sound, from behind us! Looked back, pushed my friend, and jumped out of the way. Didn't need to be smacked by that big, flat, orange ass.

Also pretty funny that Parnelli gave Bruce such a surprise with the Indy Ford powered Lola - was that Bruces "Ah ha!"that led him to try that very same engine destroked in his F1 car?

The first Can-Am race I got to see.

Great film,thanks

Stupid Moreno Valley Mall; cause for RIR to be torn down. Round 1 bowling alley still fun, but not able to make up for what I could have experienced, living in South Riverside.

Chris Economaki was great. Miss him doing Indy 500. When did he retire? And Jim Mckay too.

Amazing clip!

In 3 years Chaparral would have the vacuum car...it really sucked but was banned. My brother has 8mm movies of it.

I think that the reason F1 doubled engine capacity in 1967 was the excitement generated Can Am.

I now have model cars of about half that whole field! I was 8 at that time, lived near that track, but didn't understand what those cars were. I thought they were the "fruity" Formula 1 cars. Boy was I wrong.

This is really cool!

I was there. We were there for many races. Usually the infield, turn 7. sometimes turn 8.

There is no sweeter sound to my ears than a fuel injected big block...

Thankfs for sharing this. Those cars (except the Chappy) were so utterly sexy.

The race hasn't started yet bot, Id bet that wing doesn't stay on that Chaparral! They always blew off!! SCCA has always been my favorite...

Riverside was a great track. Sad to see it go. Little chance we will see another road course in this area.

Gee that's the only ever time I've heard Denny being addressed as Dennis lol

I think I was there , we went to all the races there in Edgemont/Sunnymead/Moreno Valley

No fines for speeding in reverse in the pit area..oh the best days ever..

Drove a kart there. Fun times.

Thanks for posting this. What did you use to capture it if you don't mind answering? It looks good.

*DAT WING ON THE CHAPARRAL.*

Don't piss Denny off ! The bear will get grumpy

If only I could race as fast as Mr.Hulme reversed to the marshal stand!

Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Mario Andretti...I have a large engineer's paycheck that says you could take the last 3 nascar cup champs and put them in this race and they wouldn't get a sniff of those three guys...

LOVED RIVERSIDE !

good old kiwi, Bruce,

I think Parnelli Jones' with the Ford 4-cam Indy engine was Ford's best effort in Can-Am. The Honker and King Cobra cars should have been better, judging by the teams (Holman-Moody and Shelby) that were behind them. I never knew that the 4-cam was expanded to 5.0 liters. But it had the same classic sound as the Indy engine.

9:14 - are you serious??

Gurney was the smoothest driver of Riverside I ever saw.

Wasn't this the track in the first Herbie movie?

Top Class, someone who have start line setup, cars and drivers?.

Can anyone tell me how I could get a picture of the pace car????

Was this late 1967? The pace car was a 68 Plymouth.

I was at this race. Anyone remember there was a big fire along the 91 on the way home?

Great Video and I miss ABC Wide World of Sports. Thank-you for sharing. 5 people are clueless souls...............

If you want to see the full results and the cars entered in this race, here is the link to race results: www.racingsportscars.com/results/Riverside-1967-10-29.html The John Williams Ferrari that crashed was a P4 model. That car would be worth its weight in gold nowadays.

Does anyone know what number in the series the Riverside race was? I know that once the M6 McLaren came out and got sorted, there were few non Kiwi wins for the next 3 or 4 years. Did Chaparral ever win a race?

Back when safety was: just don't suck, hand me my driving whiskey.

At 0:17 he says "Can Am, second to Formula 1". In my opinion, Formula 1 was second to Can Am!

18:57 did jim hall look over at bruce maclaren

What that flagman did at 17:42 was extremely dangerous. He could have been killed because since he was holding the flag but went on the track to push that car, other drivers were not aware of the danger.

Would love to see Verstappen back up in the pit lane in Monaco at the same speed Hulme did, .... just to PISS OFF the entire PC FIA crowd! Whoa, -- banned for life?! Walk away grinning ear-to-ear and waving to the crowd! ....YEAH BABY!

20:46 are the cars going over a bridge with normal traffic going underneath? Lmao

Decent commercials too! And the announcers , talking instead of screaming adjectives at 20,000 rpm...

Man, the grandstands and even the roadside look packed with spectators. I wonder what the figures were as far as race attendance goes? I was personally just at Road America recently for an IMSA race and the place was pretty sparsely populated. Probably because modern prototype regulations can't hold a candle to the free-market style Can-Am ones and as a result the cars and the racing are crappy. Too bad we don't have the right attitude in IMSA to bring back those kind of rules nowadays...

those commercials, hahahaa

'Holy Mackerel'....

Who is jym ball ? Anyone know ?

McLarens set new World record in reverse gear..go Denny lol

Mountain Man...😎