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For nine amazing years between 1966 and 1974, the Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a spectacular part of the international motorsport calander. The lure of this series was the competing machinery - the most powerful sports cars in the world. The regulations did not include any upper limit on engine size or minimum weight. The slim rule book left the door open for designers to experiment and Can-Am became a testbed for aerodynamic breakthroughs that would transform Formula 1 and other forms of motorsport. The list of competing drivers read like a roll-call of the great and good of 1960's and 1970's: Brabham, Stewart, Phil Hill, Graham Hill, John Surtees, Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter.....but most important of all were two names that have become synonomous with the series: Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme. So dominant were these two drivers in 1967, '68 and '69, the press called it the "the Bruce and Denny show". The reason for this dominance was quite simple - the McLaren M6, M8 and M20 cars.
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