Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Shelby 3 Hour Tribute this Sunday on Velocity Channel

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

>> Larry notes “Now THERE"S a engineer! [Jim Hall] His Chaparrals were world class.    Very much ahead of their time –

 

Picture this – 1966, Riverside International Raceway, the Chaparral 2E with huge movable wings one on the back and one in the nose, comes off a win at Laguna Seca and Times GP Friday practice is in full swing.  Up comes a news man, cameras dripping off him (remember those days?) and snarls asking Hall – what good are those things, pointing to the wing, for your car?  Hall stands up, drawls in a matter of fact Texas response – “Ever stick your head out of a car window at a 100 mph?”

 

I rest my case.

 

DOUG