Jim Hall and his race team, Chaparral Cars, changed the racing world forever. Hall, a native of Midland, Texas, was the first man to ever stick a tall wing onto the rear of a race car with the purpose ...
The first race of the inaugural 1966 Can-Am series wasn't exactly wall-to-wall thrills: With a limited field and European competition that stomped all over North American drivers and teams, it didn't ...
Dubbed the Chevrolet Chaparral 2X VGT, the concept was designed by GM's Advanced Design Studio along with Jim Hall of Chaparral Cars fame. In 1962, Jim Hall and Hap Sharp founded Chaparral Cars and ...
The successor to Halls’ Sebring-winning Chaparral 1, the 2A was his firm’s first mid-engine car. It’s aero helped ward off the front-end lift that plagued many cars of it’s era. The 2D was Chaparral’s ...
We're pretty sure the Nissan Concept 2020 is the coolest of the Vision Gran Turismo concepts. Then again, maybe it's the Aston Martin DP-100? A trip a little farther down memory lane reminds us of ...
Audi didn't think the US was cool enough to get the 2013 RS4 Avant, so we had to admire it from afar. That was a real bummer, because this is a seriously quick station wagon. A high-strung 4.2-liter ...
Stephen Edelstein November 14, 2014 Comment Now! Chevrolet is the latest automaker to create a wild Vision Gran Turismo concept for Gran Turismo 6, but this one borrows from the past as much as it ...
Workers packed up Jim Hall’s legendary Chaparral race cars at M1 Concourse after headlining the inaugural American Speed Festival. The display of the pioneering race cars — the first to sport ...