The news that Ford would enter the Can-Am for the '67 season was pretty exciting, as there was very little front line Ford involvement, other than the unit in the back of Dan Gurneys Lola.

The Ford effort was supposed to be big; three teams and six cars. But at Road America, only one car showed up, the swoopy purple 'Honker II', run by Holman-Moody, driven by Mario Andretti, and with Paul Newmans name on the nose. But it didn't even make it as far as qualifying. The Honker II entered four of the remaining five races, its best qualifying effort being 5th at Riverside, but it never looked like a race winner, even with the talent of Andretti behind the wheel.

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Jerry Titus appeared at Riverside in a Shelby run King-Cobra, qualifying 13th, and retiring after 4 laps. And that was the extent of Fords effort in the '67 Can-Am.

They returned late in the '69 season with their beautiful Open Sports Ford (see discussion here: http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...en-Sports-Ford ), but the best Ford results in the Can-Am were those of Ford backed drivers running McLaren or Lola customer cars with Ford engines in the back.