itsawheelthing: what we miss … Can AmGeorge Follmer getting his AVS Shadow-Chevrolet MkI side
itsawheelthing: what we miss … Can AmGeorge Follmer getting his AVS Shadow-Chevrolet MkI sideways at Mosport for the 1st race of the 1970 Can Am ChampionshipCan Am was probably the wildest ‘no rules’ championship ever conceived that saw some crazy cars the craziest of them all must have been this AVS Lola where the design philosophy was to create as little (frontal) drag as possible, of course this came with a huge amount of problems housing all the vital parts into such a small bodythe AVS never really was a succes, but one of the famous quotes from the driving force behind AVS, Don Nichols was; “If I want to be ordinary, I could have bought a McLaren.”that sums it al up if you ask me! You can blame Porsche for the dissolution of Can-Am with the 917/30, which won virtually every race in the ‘73 Can-Am championship. It’s the car that killed the Can-Am. -- source link
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