Unrestricted cars, outrageous designs, monster engines, and very high speeds were all hallmarks of the Can-Am sports car series races. Professional teams the likes of Chaparral, McLaren and Shadow, and top drivers Andretti, Foyt, Jones, Hulme and Surtees provided Can-Am racing the attention it deserved. This well-written, pictorial history recounts the series' story through the races, designs, engineering, personalities, and cars from 1966-74. "The definitive work on the best race series that ever was..." AutoWeek. Winner of the 1996 Moto Award Bronze Medallion.

Can-Am

Lyons, Pete

Reference

Motorbooks Intl

A selection of photographs which show Can-Am cars in action. All of the major marques are illustrated, and first hand interviews with drivers, builders, and team owners are provided with a history of the vehicles.

Can-Am Photohistory

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

This history of the series is an intensely visual review of some of Can-Am's greatest drivers, constructors, and cars. The photos are punctuated by first-person interviews, technical reviews, and fascinating anecdotes from the people who made the Can-Am series so memorable.

Can-Am: Photo-History

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Can-Am (Motorbooks Classics)

Ferrari; the Machines and the Man

Foulis/Haynes

This book is a lively history of Britain's regal cats, with particular focus on Jaguar's sporting models. There are hundreds of color photos, informative text, & rare historical photos throughout the book.Contents:•Introduction: Jaguar burning bright•A man & a dream•A marquee is born•Sir William & his great cats•Jaguar after Lyons•SS Jaguar 100: Discord & harmony•XK 120: Astonishing afterthought•XK 120: on the road•C Type: Racing to immortality•KX 140: Improving a classic•D Type: for the love of racing•XK 150P Taking care of business•E Type: Igniting a new sports car revolution•E type: On the road•E type series 2: Graceful aging•E Type series 3V0-12: Twilight of a God•The sedans: Jaguars all•XJ-S: First cabin cat•Revolution in racing: Super sport Jaguars enter the modern age•Reprise at Le Mans•Breeding tomorrow's Jaguars•Specifications of selected Jaguars•index

Jaguar: Performance and Pride

Pubns Intl Ltd

Pete Lyons grew up on the track, and has covered auto racing since the early 1960s. His pieces couple his enthusiasm for motorsports with clear insight into the factors that make cars and men champions. Whether he's screwing up his chance to learn how to drive fast from Dan Gurney, or taking a lap while precariously wedged into a Can-Am car with Peter Revson at the wheel and at full noise, Lyons picks up on the details that help us understand and appreciate what makes racing great. Fast Lines is a collection of 55 of Pete's columns, Fast Lines, from Vintage Racecar Magazine. The book includes looks at cars and racers from Formula 1, Can-Am, Indycar, and endurance racing, most of them racers who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He also includes glances into the contemporary Mario Andretti, mellowed hardly at age 60, and events like Sebring, Goodwood, and the Monterey Historics.

Fast Lines: Memorable Motorsports Moments by Pete Lyons from Vintage Racecar Magazine

Octane Press

The most powerful racing cars on the road courses of planet Earth. That's what Can-Am 1972 was all about. A thousand horses and more stampeded across North America that summer. Fans had never seen such horsepower. And they got to see it because, despite all the rules and regulations and restrictions so sadly imposed on the formerly "no rules" racing series, born competitors in the drawing offices and dyno cells and race shops came up with ingenious workarounds. And then resolute drivers strapped into cockpits and floored the throttles.\nWe meet Hulme and Revson of mighty McLaren. We see Donohue and Follmer in a battle neither wanted. We watch hard-driving rivals like Cevert, Hobbs, Minter, Oliver, and others challenging the Big Boys against all odds.\nWe listen as the once-dominant, thundering Big Block American V8 struggles to stave off a ferociously whispering threat by the novel new twin-turbocharged Flat-12 from Germany.\nMotorsports reporter Pete Lyons was there with camera and notepad. Now, 50 years afterward, he brings those days of unequalled performance back 
to life with 24 of his own photos, along with his eyewitness memories of those fabulous cars and stars.\nBig, bold, and beautiful like the old Can-Am itself, this is not only a premier quality wall calendar for the racing fan, but it is also a glimpse back into an age of epic combat.

Velocity 2022 Calendar

Octane Pr

This 2023 wall calendar features historic race cars that competed on the world's stage and beat all comers! The calendar showcases cars such as the Ford GT40s that beat Ferrari at LeMans (and were featured in the hit movie Ford Versus Ferrari starring Matt Damon). These historic machines are photographed in studio by Peter Harholdt and accompanied by text and archival images by award-winning race journalist Pete Lyons. Printed on heavy 180gsm sheets of 12x17-inch paper, this calendar is a beautiful journey into racing history. 
The calendar includes the following models: 
1953 Cunningham C-4R OR C-4RK 
1958 Scarab MkII 
1964 Shelby Daytona Coupe 
1964 Foyt's Watson #1 Indy winner 
1966 Chaparral 2E 
1967 Gurney's Eagle F1 
1967 Foyt/Gurney Ford GT40 #1 
1963 Corvette Grand Sport 
1973 Porsche 917/30 
1974 Shadow DN4 
1975 Bobby Unser's Eagle #48 Indy winner 
Tullius Jaguar GTP 
Roush Merkur GTO/Trans-Am\nFrom the Back Cover\nThis 2023 wall calendar features historic race cars that competed on the world's stage and beat all comers! The calendar showcases cars such as the Ford GT40s that beat Ferrari at LeMans (and were featured in the hit movie Ford Versus Ferrari starring Matt Damon). These historic machines are photographed in studio by Peter Harholdt and accompanied by text and archival images by award-winning race journalist Pete Lyons. Printed on heavy 180gsm sheets of 12x17-inch paper, this calendar is a beautiful journey into racing history. 
The calendar includes the following models: 
1953 Cunningham C-4R OR C-4RK 
1958 Scarab MkII 
1964 Shelby Daytona Coupe 
1964 Foyt's Watson #1 Indy winner 
1966 Chaparral 2E 
1967 Gurney's Eagle F1 
1967 Foyt/Gurney Ford GT40 #1 
1963 Corvette Grand Sport 
1973 Porsche 917/30 
1974 Shadow DN4 
1975 Bobby Unser's Eagle #48 Indy winner 
Tullius Jaguar GTP 
Roush Merkur GTO/Trans-Am

Velocity Calendar 2023: American Race Cars That Challenged the World

Harholdt, Peter

This book, the first in Evro’s new Formula 1 Greats series, covers one of the most revered Formula 1 cars ever made. Introduced in 1970, the wedge-shaped Lotus 72 competed for six seasons, winning 20 World Championship Grands Prix, two Drivers’ titles (for Jochen Rindt in 1970 and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972) and three Constructors’ titles (in 1970, 1972 and 1973), racing first in Lotus’s evocative red, white and gold livery, then the equally eye-catching black and gold of the John Player Special period. Pete Lyons, Autosport’s renowned Formula 1 reporter for part of the Lotus 72 era, explores the car’s entire race-by-race career in his insightful commentary accompanying a magnificent array of more than 300 photos. 
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The 1970 season: after troubled early development, the 72 finally took over from the long-serving 49, its four consecutive race wins enough to secure the World Championship for Jochen Rindt, posthumously after his death during practice for the Italian Grand Prix.</li>
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The 1971 season: with promising youngster Emerson Fittipaldi elevated to team leader after Rindt’s death, great things were expected of the 72’s second season but it proved to be winless.</li>
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The 1972 season: now in black and gold John Player livery, the 72 became far more competitive and Fittipaldi’s four Grand Prix victories made him World Champion.</li>
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The 1973 season: Ronnie ‘SuperSwede’ Peterson joined Fittipaldi to form a dream team and together they won seven races, but because Lotus’s spoils were divided between the two drivers Jackie Stewart was able to come through to become World Champion.</li>
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The 1974 season: still the 72 soldiered on, now as the fall-back car after its successor, the 76, failed to deliver; partnered by Jacky Ickx, Peterson won three Grands Prix.</li>
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The 1975 season: well beyond its sell-by date, the 72 did a final season but by now it was far from effective, with Ickx’s second place in the tragic Spanish Grand Prix its best result.</li>
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Lotus 72: 1970-75 (Formula 1 Greats)

Evro Publishing Limited

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