Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out with North America's Greatest Race Series 1966-74 Hardcover – October 31, 2016

If you are a motor racing enthusiast, this is a book you need to own. Whether you are 20 or 70, if you admire Nico Rosberg or Bruce McLaren, this is food for your passion and a pass key to the innards of the best of professional Auto Racing. Those on the upper end of the age scale, like me, will be treated to first-hand insights into what it was like to compete against the world's best racing drivers in cars with absolutely no limits to their design. The mandate was to simply make them as fast as possible. For those without the benefit of years, you can get a realistic look at top-level racing as it was. The racetracks were crude, the cars built without concern for driver well-being. and there was a long line of brave men eager to test themselves, the risk be damned. Not all, including many of the best, survived. I was a kid doing autocrosses with my '67 Camaro, considered Lime Rock a shrine, and couldn't wait to get my copy of AutoWeek where I could follow the Can Am. I'd feast on the column, with Denny Hulme's by-line, that made the driving come alive. This book brings all that excitement back to me.

Back in the day, the Can-Am was THE auto racing series. It had the fastest, most technologically advanced cars and the best drivers from around the world. But after 9 short years it was gone. The reasons it came about and died are covered in detail. There are many interviews with drivers, mechanics, and team owners who participated in the series.I'm was a huge fan of the series and own every book I know of on the Can-Am, so I didn't know what to expect from yet another book on the subject. Would it just cover the same old ground but with some photos I hadn't seen before, or would there be new stories and insights? Well, my fears were unfounded. This book explains incidents I only thought I knew and adds things I never knew happened. Like exactly what happened in the accident that ended Jim Hall's racing career. Or the fact that it was kept secret for 40 years that Mario Andretti once tested a car for Team McLaren! This is a history book that is hard to put down once you start reading.George Levy & Pete Biro have done a magnificent job with this book. In some ways, it even surpasses the work of Pete Lyons., the authority on the Can-Am. (Lyons' race-by-race accounts in his books are more thorough.) Any fan of motor racing should have this book in their library. Any fan of the old Can-Am must have this book.

This is physically a very high quality book with premium production value about one of the most legendary North American automotive racing series of all times. It takes a very unique look at the Can Am series, not so much focusing on the races themselves and results but on the drivers and team members that made it happen. The behind-the-scene photography is stunning, putting you on the track, in the pits, and in the motor homes for a truly unique view of the action. If you have been looking to understand the Can Am series from the viewpoint of those that were there, this book definitely needs to be on your required reading list.

Best book on the subject that I've ever encountered. Really a must read for a Can-Am fan, start to finish

If you like racing history you have to have this book. The Can-Am Series was not on my radar when I was a kid, but after going to some vintages races I fell in love with cars. And after reading about it's history, fell in love with the series. There are three or four great Can-Am books, and this one joins the club. Great stories and photography. Your here, thinking about it.... place the order, you won't regret it !

This book is the best value in motorsports right now. Using a number of never seen before images from ace auto racing photographer Pete Biro and the well written and well researched prose of expert automotive journalist George Levy, the reader is treated to many anecdotes from the participants of the most outrageous professional racing series ever witnessed. The younger readers who did not get to see these cars and drivers in action in the period will receive a proper education about professional auto racing before it became a politically correct, one make spec car parade. Innovation was rewarded with success and , if too successful, rejection by the sanctioning bodies SCCA and FIA. If you purchase only one racing book this year, THIS is the one!

Una lectura interesantisima de una de la competiciones más avanzadas e innovadoras que se ha conocido. Sin reglas y con libertad total para ir incorporando a los coches de competición nuevos y revolucionarios elementos que son parte de los artilugios existentes hoy en Formula 1. En aquellos tiempos la participantes con los bolidos Can-Am hacían mejores tiempos que los Formula 1. Muchos Corredores famosos se midieron en las Series Can-Am. Para mi el más innovador fue Jim Hall con su Chaparral.El primer coche con alerón y con caja de 3 velocidades, y hacia tiempos increibles. En fin, una lectura interesante e instructiva.

this is a very complete history of the greatest racing series in US history. It was basically a "race what you brung" series with few rules and open innovation. Very exciting and with some of the best drivers ever. This book captures it in text and photos.