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Originally Posted by RL17
Chevy engined race cars of a great designers NZ owned team (later) US owned.
Little connection to road car manufacturer that started in 1980s and didn’t produce a road car until 1990’s.
And from an English car firm viewpoint the Marlboro McLauren F1 team (Project 4/Ron Dennis era) far outshadows Can-Am period.
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Your comment shows your age.
People alive in the early 1960's know who John Cooper was and the people who drove them....
And later drove cars of their own design... (Brabham, McLaren and later Dan Gurney....)
McLaren has never been US owned. After Bruce's death it had an American CEO (Teddy Mayer) but ownership passed to Ron Dennis, and then the Middle East.
Can Am in the 60's carried as much prestige in real terms as Indy or F1, but that was then. If you weren't alive then you wouldn't know.