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So - Who won? List of Can Am Champions - No Automatics among them.  -Seth
 
1965    USRRC                      Lotus  Porsche
    1966 John Surtees (GB) Lola-Chevrolet 3  1967 Bruce McLaren (NZ) 
McLaren-Chevrolet 2  1968 Dennis Hulme (NZ) McLaren-Chevrolet 3  1969 Bruce 
McLaren (NZ) McLaren-Chevrolet 6  1970 Dennis Hulme (NZ) McLaren-Chevrolet 6  1971 
Peter Revson (USA) McLaren-Chevrolet
 
 
In a message dated 3/16/2011 5:59:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
djtcz at comcast.net writes:

1965  Chaparral 2 race results (cutted and pasted, not checked) 
Sebring,  Hall/Sharp f astest lap and 1st 
USRRC Riverside, Hall 1st, Sharp fastest  lap and 2nd 
USRRC Laguna Seca, Hall 1st 
Bridgehampton, Hall fastest  lap and 1st, Sharp 2nd 
Mosport, Hall fastest lap and 2nd 
Elkhart Lake,  Hall fastest lap and 1st 
USRRC Watkins Glen, Hall fastest lap and 1st,  Sharp 2nd 
FIA Mr. Tremblant, Canada, Hall fastest lap and 2nd, Sharp 3rd  
USRRC Kent, Hall 1st Sharp fastest lap and 2nd 
USRRC Continental  Divide, CO, Sharp 1st, Hall 4th 
USRRC Mid-Ohio, Sharp 1st 
Road America  500 Hall/Sharp/Hissom 1st, Hall/Sharp/Jennigs 2nd 
Bridgehampton, Sharp  fastest lap and 1st 
Mosport, Hall fastest lap and 1st 
Kent WA, Hall  fastest lap and 1st, Chaparral 2C, Sharp 2nd 
Laguna Seca, Sharp fastest  lap and 2nd 
Riverside, Sharp 1st 
Las Vegas, Sharp 1st, Hall fastest  lap and 3rd 
Nassau, Sharp 1st, Hall fastest lap , Chaparral 2C  


Supposedly a 1 speed automatic with torque converter was used  successfully 
thru much of 1964. 
Late in 64 a 2 speed auto was installed,  and that configuration was used 
for a few years until they started using big  block engines.