OK, you’ve seen the Delta Wing concept, as well as designs/descriptions from Dallara, Swift and Lola. Now that you have actual images and descriptions to compare, what do you think?

At HVM Racing, the off-season is not vacation time. As well as developing our program for the upcoming season, we restore older race cars as well as perform modifications, such as building street legal Open Wheel race cars. We thought you might enjoy a look at some of these projects. 

The first project we are going to show is the restoration of a McLaren 8E Can Am car. From 1968 to 1972 the McLaren M8 dominated Can Am, and unfortunately an accident in an M8D led to the untimely death of Bruce McLaren. 

The Car we are Restoring is a 1971 McLaren M8E, Chassis #4, originally raced by Vic Elford for Roy Woods Racing in 1971. The “E” series were customer cars built By Trojan for McLaren. The works cars were designated as M8F. We hope you enjoy the photos of a truly magnificent piece of racing history.

Please feel free to share with us any recollections you have of Can Am historic cars, or just drop us a note to say “Hi”