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Comments on: The Battle of Evermore http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842 The Right Stuff, The Wrong Way Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Eric http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-448967 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:54:35 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-448967 My two heroes :

Led Zep and John Brooks

Many thanks

]]> By: John Brooks http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74209 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:15:23 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74209 In reply to Tom Kjos.

Tom, I would suggest that impression was articulated by two very different men, at least in my mind………..

John Wyer with the title of his book “That Certain Sound”.

And when Chuck Berry sang this verse it brings to mind the freedom of spirit that Can-Am represented – that highway sound…………….

The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that’s when I heard that highway sound.
Cadillac a-sittin’ like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin’ like it’s sittin’ still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill.

Or am I just getting old?

]]> By: Tom Kjos http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74192 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:08:14 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74192 Though I’ve attended well over 100 top-tier sports car races over the past few decades, most of them in the recent past, my first, Can-Am at Laguna Seca in 1969 is among the best-remembered. Little more than snow fence, hay bales, and the (very) occasional stretch of armco separated us from the cars: Maclarens, John Surtees in the 2H “Whale.” We sat just downhill from and outside the corkscrew, a spot directly accessible from Ft. Ord (coming on interior roads from the area of the Land Navigation Range). I tried to identify the spot a few years ago, but changes to the topography in that area meant I could get close but not “spot on.” That was between Vietnam tours for a newly-married twenty-something. The impression it made on me was profound, and had everything to do with my involvement thirty years later.

]]> By: Van soetaert http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74133 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:38:03 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74133 Excellent article and photos, Dave!

]]> By: David Soares http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74128 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:04:17 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74128 You would know, Tom, since you were an inmate at Fort Ord for some of those heady days. Look at the hill in the shot of Follmer going past the pits — it’s COVERED with people. The Can-Am was a happening. Laguna hasn’t seen crowds like that since.

]]> By: Tom Kjos http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74120 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:01:42 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74120 Not just well-written, David, I knew it would be that. But insightful. Taken by itself, “close racing” placates the rabble, but in no way satisfies the soul of the admirer of the automotive arts and sciences.

If that seems snobbish, so be it. But it must be understood that this “niche” of sports car racing only exists because there are spectators who appreciate its art. If they were satisfied by close racing they wouldn’t be at the likes of Laguna Seca; they’d be – with the masses – at Talladega.

If Grand Am can’t find – doesn’t allow – race cars that satisfy the soul, their acquisition of the ALMS nemesis will not in itself make them – or this sport – successful.

]]> By: Rolly Resos http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74119 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:57:05 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=5842#comment-74119 THANKS!

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