Talk:Can-Am

message: In this artical, at the part where it talks about the Chaparral 2J, it says "These fans, combined with rubber 'skirts' around the bottom of the car created a vacuum underneath the car, effectively providing the same level of downforce as the huge wings of previous vehicles"
It is well known that these cars had Lexan skirts, and not rubber ones. In fact, there was a big 'lexan' sponsorship sticker on the car!
:I also remember the car being know for having Lexan skirts.  A buddy of mine is a Chaparral nut and goes on and on about how trick the skirts were.  Scottanon 05:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chaparral

message: From the ’79 Can-Am Media Guide
Horst Kroll
A Volkswagen/Porsche specialist with his own shop in the Toronto area, ex-Porsche factory mechanic Horst Kroll won the Canadian Formula Vee Championship in 1964 and 1965.  In 1967 he was Under 2-liter Champion of Canada, and the following year Champion of Canada.  In 1969 and ’70, he was runner-up in the Canadian F/5000 Championship.  In the Can-Am, he was seventh overall in 1977.
From the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame 
In a career that spanned more than 25 years, Horst Kroll thrilled fans in Canada and the U.S. He won the Canadian Driving Championship in 1968, driving a Kelly Porsche. That was the same car he beat the factory Porsches in a United States Auto Club race at Watkins Glen.  He raced Formula A cars in 1969/70. When the cars morphed into the new Can-Am cars, Horst made the move as well.  In 1986, he won the Can-Am Championship. {Hugewally 07:31, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Info about Horst Kroll

message: Can-Am cars were among the first race cars to sport wings, effective turbo charging, undertrays, and aerospace materials like titanium. 
I don't recall Can-Am undertrays as being anything special (in reality, the first time I ever saw Can-Am and undertrays together was here).
As for turbo-charging and use of titanium, Indy cars were using them since the mid-60s.  Mickey Thompson had an all titanium chassis at Indy in '63 and an Offy-Turbo first won Indy in '68.  The Ti-22 was I believe the first sportscar to have its a full-length monocoque chassis made of titanium (and aluminum too).
Hugewally 01:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jim Hall practically invented downforce, but ground effect undertrays didn't come into use until the Lotus 78 of 1977. The skirts were used to seal the underbody on the 2J to create a stronger vacuum, but their use without the fans, with an undertray that produced ground effect simply through its shape, would be accidental and undocumented.
Lmj81 03:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Materials

message: "The Can-Am is mostly remembered as the last series to allow unlimited motor racing before it became definitely over in 1974." This is terribly vague - could someone with the requisite knowledge tidy it up? Loganberry (Talk) 13:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean? 

message: ... really needs its own article, as it lived on long after the Can-Am cars became vintage.
Unfortunately, other than that, I don't know much about it. Maybe just enough to write a stub. Lmj81 03:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An Interserie stub has now been started, to at least acknowledge that is a different series from Can-Am. The359 06:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interserie... 

message: Since the series never held a race outside of the United States or Canada, I believe we should change all the flags to state/provincial flags. AmericanLeMans (talk) 00:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: MOS:FLAGS says otherwise, state and providence flags should not be used due to lack of recognizability.  As the Canadian-American series, the flags merely denote which races were in Canada and which were in the United States. The359 (Talk) 06:33, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

text: That would be fine if only Canadians and Americans read Wikipedia. The flags rule is about the audience, not the subject. --Falcadore (talk) 08:05, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Flags on Seasonal Pages

message: I have created seasonal pages up to 1981. I would like some help with them. Thank you. AmericanLeMans (talk) 03:58, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now created pages for every season. I'd like someone to make them look more professional. Thank you. AmericanLeMans (talk) 03:56, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasonal pages