On 3/28/06, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me it was at the start/finish line for the start of a Can Am race. Hell > your guts would vibrate... <snip>
I've got to agree with you there, Ken. I've never been at the start/finish line, but I saw several Can Am races at Mosport, near Toronto, starting in 1972. That year Team McLaren (Denny Hulme and Peter Revson) was there, and other than the RC Cola Porsche 917 Turbos, I'm guessing pretty much everyone was running big block V8s (mostly Chevys). After the Turbos were outlawed, and everyone went back to big 8's, it ended up that the Shadows (among the most beautiful racing cars ever) were running faster laps than the Turbos used to, IIRC. Anyway, you're right, Ken - CanAm races were visceral experiences! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
