This is absolute gold. An unrepeatable era of racing. You can’t help but be struck by all the trackside safety installations - like trees, poles, earth banks. 😊

These drivers were my heros growing up. I had a slot car track with the cars.

After much begging my dad finally agreed to take the 12 year old me to see the 1967 Bridgehampton race. The next couple of years I started taking the train to see the Can AM and Trans AM at Bridgehampton. I was still too young to drive and the adults really didn't want to be bothered. I loved those cars. I had slot cars of many of them.

In the Can Am days, winning the race meant receiving a bottle of champagne, a lei of flowers, and a kiss from a gorgeous woman on the podium-now that's something!

I was at the first Can-Am race at St Jovite in 1966. We camped at a place overlooking the back straight with the 'hump' in the middle. I remember watching Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon practicing in tandem with their dark red McLaren M1Bs. Strangely I don't remember John Surtees at all, although he's one of my all-time favorite F1 drivers! The entry list was full of great drivers - Dan Gurney, Mario Andretti etc etc. Many of the drivers had trouble with the 'hump' as the almost non-existent aerodynamics of the time would cause the front ends of the cars to lose grip. Years later I saw a youtube interview with John Surtees where he said he used an old motorcycle trick to handle the 'hump' - just tap on the brakes before cresting it. To earn a living from racing at the time, drivers had to be out racing at every race meeting they could get to. Prize money from the Can-Am was bigger than that from F1 at the time - that's why so many F1 and USRRC stars from the era participated. Great for spectators - not too likely that Max Verstappen or Louis Hamilton would show up at St Jovite these days. Lance Stroll maybe as the Strolls own the facility!

It's laughable to me that Hamilton, Verstappen, Schumacher, Senna etc. are always in the GOAT conversation, these heroes would race F1, CanAm, Stock Cars, Midgets. Amazing and Versatile Drivers who there Bravery and Talent will never be equaled. This statement says it all: Dennys Hulme leading the F1 World Championship with 2 races to go is leading the CanAm race, I can't in my wildest dreams imagine that statement today.

Can't believe I've never seen this before. Narrated by Sam Posey no less. I could listen to him call a game of checkers and have to hear every second. Really the best road racing series ever and done so well!

Sam Posey sucha a great commentator, so intelligwnt and knowledgeable being a racer as well

Myself and two other drivers campaigned BMWs out of the garage at Sears Point behind T- 11 directly across from magee Motorsports. They were prepping one of the Shadow cars for the following weekend at Laguna Seca vintage races. When that shadow fired up it was like thunder ... Everyone dropped their wrenches whatever they were doing and walked out to turn 11 to watch the practice laps. It was like the pied Piper of sports cars possessed us!

CanAm and Group B… 😣 they were both guilty of just being too damned awesome, and couldn’t be allowed to continue. I miss them both dearly.

When I was a kid my father was deep in to SCCA racing and a family friend who drove FV and GT2 was asked to drive a Can-Am car (ASR, same thing) to pad the entry list and thus help keep the class alive. The friend was a very accomplished driver with an impressive win list - but the first time he drove the Can Am he lit up the rear tires and spun IN THE PITS. Those cars were a massive handful even for a very talented and experienced racing driver.

A grid of utter legends. Gotta be the best grid of the world's best drivers in history.

Wheelspin to 140mph heading UP the back straight at Mosport! And there is nothing on earth cooler than the offset intake stacks.

Can Am was one of my favorite type of racecars plus an amazing list of great drivers.

Imagine if the CanAm series was here today.

I recall watching CanAm races when I was in Jr Hi. Our TV was a big Magnavox console, but was B/W. Loved the roar of all those Chevy engines, both small and big block. I my mom bought a 19" color the next year, and then it was glorious color. Also, watched the Star Trek series in color!

Open face helmets and goggles to full face helmets and fire gear over a couple of years - we'd always be watching McLaren, Hulme and Amon so we could do a show and tell in school the next day. Kiwis..

What a fabulous documentation of the great Can Am races , totally enjoyed it , thank you , have there ever been better looking race cars ? I think not .

Oh heavens above this was my childhood. I went to so many of these races. Thank you for this tremendous film.

THE most fascinating and elegant Sportcars of all Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting in 1970, I attended all of the Can-Am races at Mosport. There was nothing like seeing and hearing a full field of Group 7 cars.

Great quality film, thank you

Fantastic! So many legends in this.

Man, I wish I could go back in time and hang around the pits getting photos of all the greats because they were all there!

Wow, that young lady in the thumbnail is absolutely gorgeous!

Outstanding job... I live 35 minutes from Watkins Glen, you can bet i was there for this. I miss this series more than ever.

Truly great cars and drivers, clearly a golden period for sports racing cars. If the organiser had kept a lid on the costs of competing the series would have continued a lot, lot longer

Thanks for uploading cam am bestows the imagination

I was a teenaged Can-Am fanatic but only attended a single event, the '73 race at Laguna Seca. On a warm October afternoon, Mark Donohue won in the dazzling Sunoco Porsche 917/30 and clinched the 1973 championship.

Utterly fantastic. Should have 1 billion views by next week!

Very well restored and the audio is excellent as well.Thank you so much for producing and releasing this

FANTASTIC! When guts, skill and ingenuity ruled. The women are hot too. I want to go back to this time. I caught a percentage of this with 1980's IMSA but these cars are simply gorgeous.

Bruce McLaren guiding us through the track "accelerate full throttle through the gears wheelspin in 2nd,3rd,and 4th gear up to 140 mph" wow they had some power and torque and were quite light. Too bad i never got to see these beasts live,it's in Nth America and i'm in Australia and it was a bit before my time.

Utterly Fantastic. Best racing ever.

Thank you for posting. this fantastic film about an era of racing that was before my time, but after watching this i wish i had been around to witness

Awesome video! Thanks for the credits to those of us whose Can Am videos were used as part of this documentary.

Really good , thank you.

This is some racing that I wish I could share with my dad. Great video!

this film is awesome, can-am was like closed wheel f1, it was great

I lived through this area and before when the cars were called group 7 like the Lola T 70 and many custom cars came to Kent Pacific Raceways here in the Pacific NW. Road and track wrote that the 917/30 had 1,190 hp and at the end the shadows turboed a chevy 8 liter to a reported 1,250 hp. Stand next the the track when a dozen or so of these monsters thunder by and it gives one goosebumps. Like top fuel drag racing...you feel it in every bone of your body.

The pinnacle of unlimited racing. It will never happen again. 🎸🔪

Amazing video - the footage is terrific and Sam Posey & Jim Hall do a great job at presenting this film. The footage in this film is timeless and classic. Those cars are so beautiful that, IMO, the cars of today pale in comparison, and the quality of the field was superb with F1 and Sports Car drivers on the same grid.

I had completely forgotten about Jackie Oliver's flip at Ste. Jovite in 1970, and I didn't even know that there was film of it. He was lucky to survive it, much less walk away.

when real men with guts raced for glory, not gold, fame or to be famous., i no longer watch any sports, after a lifetime race fan, i prefer the historic Drags, Sports, Grand Prix, etc, which are more popular and more exciting than the corporate spec series running all big motor sport the last 30 years. i am not bitter, or whining, but i thankb you for sharing this brilliant historical racing, cheers Movracefan, cheers from Italy, Robert, racing artist and race fan,,,,!!

The golden age of motor racing. Loved going to Riverside Raceway.

I am not over awed by Sam Posey's prose, especially his spots before races on NBC.

It was a massive irony twist that Bruce was killed in his Can Am car. From the beginning McLaren produced the safest race cars as possible. Within decades McLaren has been amazingly safe, the only driver with a major injury was Hakkinen after his 1995 crash.

Those where the days, the cars, the people - they dont make them like this no more.

As a kiwi How proud of Bruce McClaren, Denny Holmes, Chris Amon even Roger Penske was there. The McClaren sounded the best, what a hum.

Damn, that was quite the slight to Micheal May when Posey claims that Hall was the first person to effectively mount a wing to a car. Mays winged 550 Spyder was at least 10 years prior and immediately banned.

Awesome video! I had the privilege' and pleasure of serving on a crew for one of these cars. Video and audio just doesn't do justice to being right there up close to -- or sitting in the cockpit of -- one of these incredible machines!

Can-Am is such a unique auto racing series!

"Decisively faster than [contemporary] Formula 1 cars..." Enuf said.

Absolutely wicked racing from an amazing by gone era. Many thanks for this video

An awesome race series, some great photography and a fantastic range of cars over the years with innovative engineering, Porsche didn't kill the series, they out Mclarened McLaren. Thanks for the upload.

Many thanks for this excellent post! Sam did a great job with narration, too. Too bad that Porsche went all out, and killed the series! And RP goes on to virtually own the Indy 500, finally buying IMS outright. Lots of rental trucks really paid off for RP! RIP to Mark, and Bruce. They paid the ultimate price! I subscribed!

What a beautiful documentary ❤

The modern cars might be faster and safer but they will never be calander worthy like these beauties. These classics look like they were sculpted by a DeVinci.

Thank you for putting up this wonderful video, it's sublime ❤ these are one of my favourite era's of cars, and what a fantastic roster of driver's! 👏🏁🍾

What a thorough compilation! Great to hear Posey’s voice so strong & clear. The crisp editing gives it a start punch! Very nice!

I watched these races every weekend.. and remember the chevy chaparrals , wings and fan car way before the Macmurtry electric fan cars ...great racing, big money thats why all the European drivers came ...

Thank you! Such memories. I couldn't wait for my weekly Autosport magazine while at university so that I could read Pete Lyons' report on the race from the previous weekend. A magical film. The legends of Bruce McLaren and Jim Hall live on!

KZfaq has done it again - sent me another diamond of a video!

Awesome footage of these amazing cars.... Jim Halls contributions of aerodynamics and ground effects really changed the basic designs of these and several other types of competition cars to enable them to better handle more aggressive cornering and high speed stability.... So much so that one of his designs was banned by the governing body of this 'unlimited' form of racing, because they feared his cars would render the other competitors as obsolete.... Their words, from the governing body of 'unlimited' Group 7 racecars

I used to take Ortega Highway out to Riverside. A bit more time, but a lot more fun. Riverside used to get hot! We still raced hard and had a great time. Overall, probably my favorite track, ever, simply because of racer and team attitudes which were extremely good and hungry to win.

Great upload. Never seen this before. Thanks

Brilliant bit of history, thank you!

I was at a couple of those races Watkins Glen in the early seventies. My dad was a security guard and I went to the races with him

Excellent quailty - thank you for posting!!

A fantastic video!

Great stuff. Thanks for posting it.

Can Am cars were BEASTS of Innovation .. one of the best racing series of all time.

There will never be such a great race series power and beauty all in one

Awesome production. Thanks stacks

_"Ferrari in 11th place" - You gotta admit that is sounded very nice.

Great to see the papaya McLarens in action, I've seen the cars here at historic race days but never seen footage of the actual Can Am races before. Makes you really appreciate the genius that Bruce McLaren was. Same goes for Jim Hall and his Chaparral cars, pity he didn't really get the results the car deserved. Great documentary, thanks for posting.

Fantastic!!!!! Bravo, Bravo

Awesome! Thank you!!

The 1966 Laguna Seca was the only race the CanAm Chaparral ever won. A car which fame largely exceeds its actual results.

I saw Can Am cars race at Michigan International Speedway when I was a kid. I think it was 1974.. The year the price of gasoline jumped from 48 cents per gallon to $1.00 per gallon with the Oil Embargo going on .

Wow ,this is a gem of a posting the best race cars ever! Driven by the best drivers with the biggest st off balls evere!! Jesus those circuits looked lethal the noise those monsters make Is awsome ,sod it im going to watch it again 😂😂

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Just the names that raced in Can-Am alone make it legendary.

This was series created by drivers and constructor's not factory's as they showed up quickly , in the 2nd season the drivers list had every top pro in the world competing ! at the end of the series it was a FACTORY team that won everything, the original DNA of the event was crushed ! very sad !!!!

The first race they show at Mosport, the Players 200, is part of the Canadian Sport's Car Championship. Not to be confused with the 1966 Can-Am race also called the Players 200 at San Jovite

Yes, great video. I had to dig out my TV remote to change to 4:3.

This is wonderful and the quality is excellent. The best of the best going at it with few limits but the thickness of your wallet. How could it get any better?

These camera men had a good eye for the beauty in the sport!

This is freakin' awesome

Can Am cars were the best cars evet

Just wow, What an excelent addition to KZfaq

Just wow!!!

i love this it seems unreal

Those wings are absolutely wild.

What a great series ballsy racinG!

Back when racin' was racin'. Miss those days.

Fascinating; not a single word about the Edmonton races.

Saw all the can am races at Road America and Donnybrooke as a kid

We all lived in an analogue world

Okay. That is probably the best sports car documentary I have ever seen, heard or read about. I have definitely subbed. I am a bit disappointed there was no mention of the Edmonton Speedway Park? As a boy I attended a few CAN AM races there, mostly in the 1960s. Cheers!