This was the first of three years going to Watkins Glen, for the 6-Hour Endurance race and Can-Am weekend.  My dad took me and my best friend in '70 and '72.   My best friend's dad took us in '71.  Pedro Rodriguez and Leo Kinnunen won the 1970 6-Hour race in a Gulf Porsche 917.  The Group 5 and 6 prototypes from the Saturday 6-Hour race would always run in the next day's Can-Am race.  Joe Siffert brought his Group 5 Porsche 917 home second to Team McLaren's Denny Hulme in the Can-Am.  Quite a feat considering that the Porsche's engine was about two liters smaller than those in the regular Can-Am cars.

My pictures were taken with a Kodak Instamatic while dad used a 35mm SLR Minolta.   Hard to shoot racing with an Instamatic and first race photography for my dad and myself, so few usuable shots.

Saltzburg and Gulf (#2 Rodriguez/Kinnunen & #6 Redman Can-Am) Porsche 917s in and outside the Kendall Garage.

Auto World XLR McLaren M8B of Oscar Koveleski.  Note the slotcar track graphic.  Bad lighting as this was taken inside Kendall garage.

Your's truly (age 14)  with Auto World XLR McLaren.  "Car 54 where are you?!"  At this time, the Auto World catalog was the "Bible" of model car building.

The old pits on Saturday morning before the 6-Hour endurance race.

Starting grid for 6-Hour race.   Siffert/Redman Gulf Porsche 917 on pole with Andretti/Giunti Ferrari 512S next to them.  Rodriguez/Kinnunen Gulf 917, Ickx/Schetty 512S, and Larrouse/van Lennep Martini 917 round out photo.  Yes, the Martini car is purple & green.

More of the grid.  Next to the Martini 917 is the Salzburg 917 of Herrmann/Attwood.  Behind that car is Jo Bonnier's Lola T-70, and behind that is the Porsche 908 of Dean/Revson.  That is the very same 3-liter Porsche 908 that Tony Dean would win the Road Atlanta Can-Am with later that summer -- the first Can-Am victory for Porsche.

Porsche 917 of Jo Siffert and Brian Redman.  They would finish second to the sister car of Pedro Rodriguez and Leo Kinnunen.

Martini Porsche 917.  Like I said, purple and green.

Ecurie Bonnier Lola T-70.

Chevron B16 driven by Jim Baker and Paul Richards with the Rodriguez/Kinnunen 917.

Grid for Sunday's Can-Am.  Denny Hulme on pole with McLaren teamate Dan Gurney next to him in Team McLaren M8Ds.  This was Gurney's last Can-Am.  Starting third is Jackie Stewart debuting the Chaparral 2J "sucker car".  Fourth on the grid is Peter Revson's Lola T-220 and sixth is Lothar Motschenbacher's McLaren M8B.  Note endurance cars in race.

Can-Am cars go up the "Esses" during pace lap.

Denny Hulme wins the race.

The BRM P154 of George Eaton after the race.

The Salzburg Porsche 917 that Vic Elford drove in the Can-Am race trying to beat the crowds home.  He and Kurt Ahrens drove the same car in the 6-Hours race the day before.