Jim Hall Chaparral 2F

Jim Hall drives the Chaparral 2F from the shops of Chaparral Cars at Rattlesnake Raceway to the new Chaparral exhibit at the Petroleum Museum, April 2005.

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• Midland
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[soxfan59]

The video was taken during the formal launch of the Chaparral Gallery at the Petroleum Museum in Midland back in 2004. Jim was driving the 2F from the Chaparral shops at Rattlesnake Raceway on a public road to a waiting crowd at the Museum.

[boobtube56]

Its a wing that creates donwforce to aid during cornering and braking,unfortunately Hall had a horrrific crash which along with other wing failures led to it being banned. Hall still thinks most wing failures were due to faulty engineering and he still thinks it is a good design.

[soxfan59]

Many of the wings from that era were quite flimsy but Hall's were solid and quite effective. His accident was not caused by wing failure. He ran into the back of  Lothar Motschenbacher's McLaren and flipped into the desert after Motschenbacher slowed suddenly.

[xristo702]

Lots of cool history behind those cars.

And for some reason I wanna see the Chaparral logo on production car, if only to give other American automakers a run for their money OFF the track as well.

Is there a working example of the 2D?

[soxfan59]

The 2D is in the Chaparral Museum in Midland.

[BluesDuke]

{ "CAN-AM WAS THE GREATEST RACING SERIES IN THE WORLD!!!!" }

No doubt about it. McLaren, Revson, Donohue, Hulme, Gurney, Hall, Stewart, etc. ....all Hall of Famers, driving most interesting (and coolest) cars of all time.

[99oildrops]

Thats one noisy beast!

[Classof67]

My all time favorite Chaparral. The car might have won at Daytona had Phil Hill not slid off and crashed the car. The 2F gave the Ford Mk IV fits at Sebring and generally had the fastest qualifying times at most of the endurance races in Europe. The win at Brands Hatch showed what it was capable of.

[livefortheone51]

i work for Jim Hall jr. :D

[LS7TT]

Jim Build a new car :) Deag god would it be beyond ridiculous :)

[TheNoisePolluter]

I want to see that Enzo and the 2F do a race!

[ExRussian86]

Whats up with the cops?

[machone7I]

I bet that Enzo is scared to death after the Chaparral driving near it...

[pillockbrain]

I was lucky enough to see the first Chaparral with the huge wing racing at Nurburgring in June 1966..This was a 1000 km race and Phil Hill and Joakim Bonnier won it!! Fantastic! Nothing can match the sound of a big V8 winding up...

Two weeks later, I spent 24 hours at Le Mans-watching the 7 ltr: Ford GT 40s come in first: and second places.. What a time for a young Petrolhead ...listening to the sound of them at 200+ m.p.h. I have still got my programmes and passes..

[pitrow66]

you have to just love this stuff.

Thanks for posting this.

[baskikkert]

it looks like a bit on the ford gt40