2014 GT500 vs BMW M4

[Wmaker]

I never really hit it with Can Am nor Open Wheel even F1.

I am a GT guy with my golden area in the late 50s early 60s, I'm a sucker for those body style and sounds.

While I think F1 and Can Am have/had some amazingly cool things in them, you to tally said it. In those races, at that era, the cars were the coolest ever, sex was safe and motorsport was very dangerous!

[Gman]

I agree with that Skuzzy.  I think a graduated license system, a class that, if you had proper training, would give you a sticker on your plate and a number on your license that authorized higher speed driving.  Something like that for a start, I agree about the infrastructure and laws as well. I just believe that our huge, wide, long, straight highways here can safely support much higher speeds than 70mph/110 kmh.  I've always pushed that by 20kmh, always, and never once had an accident on the highway, and nor do I think it jeopardized anyone else.  I drive/drove a lot of miles every year, going between Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto by car a lot.

[Widewing]

While I think F1 and Can Am have/had some amazingly cool things in them, you to tally said it. In those races, at that era, the cars were the coolest ever, sex was safe and motorsport was very dangerous!

Can-Am and endurance racing had very cool cars... Can-Am cars were always faster than F1 on the same circuit...


Chaparral 2A, June 1965.


Chaparral 2C and 2A, December of 1965


Carroll Shelby poses with the GT-40 Mk.IV that would win the '67 Le Mans. Photo taken at airport prior to loading the car on the TWA cargo plane.


John Surtees in a Lola T70 Mk.2 leads Bruce McLaren in his M1B, Leguna Seca, 1966.


Ford GT-40 MK.II cars waiting to load up for Paris, 1966.


Bruce McLaren drives his M8A at Riverside, 1968.


Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren win the 1966 Le Mans in their GT-40 MK.II


Jim Hall in his Chaparral 2G leads Mark Donahue, Riverside, 1968.


George Folmer driving his Penske-Porsche 917/10 twin turbo, 1972.


Shadow Mk.II (1971).


Lola T222.


McLaren M20.


Lola T260.


Chaparral 2J of 1970, which will easily out-corner a modern F1 car.

[fbEagle]

Man what i wouldn't give to drive the autobahn when i go to work at 11Pm   

[Widewing]

Gents, check out the entry list for the 1963 L.A. Times Grand Prix... A who's who of the best in the world.

3 F1 world champions, 5 indy 500 winners, 7 F1 GP winners and many of the best sports car drivers in the world at the time... Chaparral took the pole in a record time...

[Gman]

Love that Chap 2j, I'd love it if someone built a scale electric r/c car for me to goof around with, good conversation piece as virtually nobody, even guys into F1 and other racing, have any idea it even existed, much less what an incredible thing it was.  Be neat to see mini little ground skirts dragging along at 50mph in the parking lot next door, that'll be as close as I'd ever get to anything like it.

Such an amazing car for its time, one of those things in world history that just seems to exist outside of time.