Video: Can-Am Paddock at Road Atlanta 1972

This short film provides a priceless, close-up look at the Can-Am scene in 1972. Don’t miss this, vintage race fans. 

 

 

This little film,  produced by motorsports photographer Gordon Jolley, is a tour of the paddock area at the Road Atlanta Can-Am event in June of 1972. It’s only four minutes long, but in that four minutes we see quite a bit:

+   Detail shots of the UOP Shadow, Penske Porsche, Gulf McLaren, Otto Zipper Alfa Romeo T33/4, and others—including a McKee equipped with a GMC 6-71 blower.

+   Up-close and personal glimpses of the drivers, including Denny Hulme, Peter Revson, George Follmer, and Francois Cevert. See Revson and Cevert meet the ladies.

All in all, the film is a rare snapshot of a golden time in motorsports, the likes of which we will never see again. Please enjoy the video.

 

6 thoughts on “Video: Can-Am Paddock at Road Atlanta 1972

  1. Thank-you for another cool video. Always nice to see how the “other half” lived. Fast cars, fast women, money to burn. Was never blessed with any of that, but quite frankly, I probably would have done the same thing. Keep ’em coming!

  2. I’ve always regretted that Can-Am didn’t come to my home track. Saw many Trans-Am races and Formula 5000 had great potential, but I didn’t make the effort to travel for a Can-Am race. Like everything else, I just assumed it would always be there and the racing would get better with each passing year.

  3. Awesome video with the race cars of my teenage dreams. It was also interesting to see the race trailers of the era. The absolute highlight was being reminded of Roman Brio; the ideal sponsor for a team in this series.

  4. The Cevert-Revson photo op is hilarious! It’s almost like Cevert saw Revson with two girls and didn’t want to let him have them for himself.

    They were so full of life, these two (sigh)…

  5. I remember this race quite well, being surprised that I did see myself in some of the footage since I was prowling the paddock as a stringer for UPI as well as catching the odd interview for a Greenville, SC radio station.

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