In the 1st race, Midgets at San Bernardino, was the 27 with Bob Tatersall the Jack London Offy out of NorCal? Sure looked like it. Burt Foland kicked some serious ass in that car years later as the #4. Always a good car.

>>> HOW in The Hell DID THE Race Not Get BLACK FLAGGED For That HUGE WRECK at Time Stamp,,, ((59;10))?????

I grew up in Hamilton Township (where the track was located) and more than likely attended this race. When I was in my early teens, my older cousin and I would place 2 step ladders with wood blanks in an alley on the back stretch, literally 3 feet from the track, and watch the race. When the races ended, I had tire dust tire in my hair, ears, and nose. I had a constant ringing in my ears for days. At 18, my claim to fame at the track was when Steve Krisiloff was tire testing it was interrupted by rain. When the rain stopped they asked anyone with a car to drive around the track to dry it. No helmet, no seatbelt, no safety anything... I had my trriump spitfire speedometer buried. Great, great memories of the Tenton (NJ) Speedway. Now 73 years old and wiser.

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 ...

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.

MILWAUKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

A fantastic video!

These guys would dominate today with aero and downforce on modern tires. They would probably be bored stiff.

For the benefit of some people in the comments, Moddern F1 cars are heavily regulated. CanAm wasnt. It was almost a free for all. Also, F1 keeps changing the regulations with the very deliberate intention of slowing them down.......js

Was at this race.

11:24 25:00

the music is so loud you cant hear the narration

What a treat. Thank you for posting it! I haven't seen this in years. I had a copy of it but lost it and haven't ever been able to find a replacement. Is there any way you can repost this in the original 4x3 format?

Mr. Rickenbacker DID NOT form "The Hat in the Ring" squadron.....he was just a member. Quit distorting simple facts.

who's playing guitar at 127:10?

CHEVROLET simply owned the CanAm, that is until PENSKE and PORSCHE crashed the party 😂; is that Pink Floyd's psychedelic music that introduces the 1973 season...sure sounds like them. Love that little hottie rocking her red scarf ❤

Absolutely brutal impact. Hit the crossover gate and impacted head on into the butt end of the concrete wall at 185mph. Michael Waltrip and Mike Dillion had similar crossover gate hits, but not at that speed. RIP Don

Howdy Slim. I want you to know that I really appreciate you finding and posting these amazing historical documentaries. My interest is in Grand Prix and early formula cars, the drivers, the designers and the races. I do have some memories of the peoples names, faces, the cars and some races too. Cheers!

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

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

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

So glad you uploaded this! Thank goodness for not only Dr. Steve Olvey, but thank goodness for all the men and women who take care of drivers after crashes and for doing their jobs. They’re the real heroes in racing!

This makes me yearn for a true Xprize car race as the Indy500 started as. Think your fast? Bring it out and run it,see who gets to the checkered flag

I have stacks of my Dad's photos from the Mosport races....fans could camp out, have campfires, and barbeques, within a few metres of the fence. ( try that at Monaco). A weekend pass with camping was under 20 Canadian dollars. F1 spends millions on their" fan experience" campaigns, yet Can AM offered the greatest experience ever, one which could be enjoyed by regular people, without mortgaging their future, and the racing was arguably far superior to what is offered in today's antiseptic sport.

I miss Wide World of Sports keep bringing these Surprise Wide World of Sports episodes!

Love Trans-Am!

DId someone say VROOM VROOM!!??

Who's the whale at 13:15?

The porn music starts when they show the 917-30. that is truly funny. I may have a bit of a puffer just looking at it.

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

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.

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 😂😂

Not MosPort. It is pronounced Mo Sport. Motor Sport, Get it? Bruce was my friend, the best driver, husband, father, and friend ever, in motor racing.

What a beautiful documentary ❤

EXPOSED AIR INTAKE TRUMMPETS ACT AS CHIMNEY PULLING AIR OUT WHY DID THEY NOT REALISE THEY ARE RESTRICTING AIR INTO ENGINE

Great video. One disappointment, though. It didn't show us the Mercury Marauders that Vel and Parnelli campaigned in the USAC Stock Car class back in the 1960s. The had red/white/blue paint and were numbered 14, 15, 16. They raced on road courses, dirt and paved ovals. I hope there's still one of those cars in a museum.

My dad and I used to watch this on vhs every year before the race... been many years. Thanks for putting it on YT!

Group 7 (no) rules = genius Jim Hall = genius Bruce McLaren = genius Circuits = genius!

Dr. Stephen Olvey is the Dr. Sid Watkins of CART/Indycar.

The memories I have since1960s. Yours too

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

Love this! I got this in 1993 on VHS at the IMS Museum Gift Shop. I’ve watched this video quite a few times since you uploaded it.

Plays upbeat music after Weatherly's fatal crash

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.

That was an amazing story. Cheers! Richard Bilovus

5:46 bring back the Bud Bowl please.😊❤

Awesome! Thank you!!

Good content, but the aspect ratio is wrong. Objects are too wide.

Did I hear him accurately? McLaren 700 horse power weighing 1400lbs?

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.