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15 Mar 2004, 23:56 (Ref:906525)
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Best Sounding CanAm Car
What do you think was the best sounding CanAm car?
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16 Mar 2004, 01:17 (Ref:906570)
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Dont know , never heard one !!! But I suppose the 917 were awesome ?
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16 Mar 2004, 19:58 (Ref:907427)
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Maybe a March or a McLaren with a free breathing V8 chevy ?
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16 Mar 2004, 21:03 (Ref:907499)
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Never really heard many of them at full chat, but I would suggest that the 612P or 712P Ferraris would sound pretty amazing. And that coming from a 917 fan...
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16 Mar 2004, 22:35 (Ref:907643)
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best sounding can am car?....all of them....for those of you that missed the series (and i am talking of the years 1967/68 to 1973) it was, quite simply, amazing....a small rule book, world class teams and drivers, mind blowing cars...the original shadow of 1970 has to be one of the all-time strangest looking little cars ever to turn a wheel, and great racing...though the mclarens and porsche 917 turbos dominated, that did not detract from the excitement of the series....
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18 Mar 2004, 00:56 (Ref:908794)
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The Reynolds Aluminum block 8.3 litre Chevy engines shook the ground for miles. I grew up around the Saturn Five Moon rockets, but the big Chevs outdid even them! Today's Panoz, Corvette etc. are higher reving and don't have the same sort of pounding sound. Still great though!
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18 Mar 2004, 05:38 (Ref:908898)
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The big 12 cylinders engines were subdued at best, but for the time unique.
The big Ferraris were disappointing. Sounded like a cross between a giant hoover and a bass drum. One I would have like to have heard was the Chapparel with eight straight pipes. Different series, but Ron Grable once drove an Indy car with a small block Chevy that had eight pipes and MEGAPHONES! The big-block Corvettes that ran IMSA and SCCA in the mod. classes kept the music of the Can-Am going until the eighties. A sound that one cannot explain is a big block Chevy running 180 degree headers, definitely different. Bob |
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18 Mar 2004, 07:59 (Ref:908949)
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Ferrari 712
 but they all sound awesome, and yes, on those occaisions i've heard the 8.3l Chevy it has rocked the ground... (March 707, blasting through Pilgrim's Drop at Brands with the sound echoing off the trees for ages afterwards  )
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19 Mar 2004, 07:58 (Ref:910373)
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CAN AM Thunder
I've been following motorsports for years and years. Nothing sounds as good as a big block Chevy CAN AM motor in a Shadow or M8F going through the gears. Not turbos, not 12's, not F1, not today's small block V8's, nothing. If you have a chance to attend a historic CAN AM race, go. You'll never forget the sound. Real men don't ware earplugs.
IMSA Last edited by IMSA; 19 Mar 2004 at 08:00. |
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