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 ...

In October 1965, Hall won the Northwest Grand Prix at Kent, Washington, driving the 2C its first time in competition. The 2C and its fiberglass chassis team car shared nearly identical aero packages ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. When Jim Hall debuted the unbelievably radical Chaparral 2E, the car that almost singlehandedly brought the idea of downforce to motorsports, Eric ...

This weekend three legendary race cars will take to the M1 race track at the inaugural American Speed Festival in Pontiac, MI. One of those machines, an example of the Chaparral 2 built by Jim Hall, ...

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 ...

Pontiac — The ground will shake this weekend when three of the most legendary race cars in motorsport hit the M1 race track at the inaugural American Speed Festival. Created by Texan Jim Hall, the ...

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 ...

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 ...