Chaparral Display / Midland...cool
I was playing in a golf tournament the first couple of days of the week in Midland. After the first round I had some time so I went to the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum on I20. The Jim Hall Gallery has the Chaparral cars on display with some extra cool interactive displays. If you want to name one guy in motorsports who was WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME it was Jim Hall. His innovations were unreal. I had always been a fan since I was pretty young when he was road racing. That Chaparral / Road Runner name and logo grabbed any kid and especially since he was from Texas. I have always been a big fan of the Penske / Donahue team, and Penske learned a ton driving for Hall. I am not a big diecast fan, but I may have to have a Chaparral S2. I had never really known that his Chaparral Indy car had the ground effects that let JR & Unser dominate. Wish I had more time as there was plenty to look at.
Mac
http://www.petroleummuseum.org/Chapa...arralhome.html