Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

[jfuelracer]

Re: Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

In 1980 I opened a transmission shop in Ventura, Ca. Next door was Jim Hall Jr. He had just started his carting school. A strange kinda man, but full of brains.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

Ain't that about the best kind of guy to be around though?

In my experience it has been.

Brian

[LSX-GTO]

Re: Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

Ain't that about the best kind of guy to be around though?

In my experience it has been.

Brian

Wait... don't you hang around Freiburger? There goes the being around "brains" theory... :D

/about to be banned

[ford141]

Re: Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

There was a team that tried this same idea in one of the Grassroots Motorsports $200X challenges. IIRC, it was the 2007 race? Anyway, a team of engineers built an '80s Corvette with a snowmobile sucker that worked quite well, they won the competition. The name of the team was Cheaparral. The car was also turbocharged, and I wonder if they would have won even without the sucker equipment...

[noboD]

Re: Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

If you read "Chevrolet = Racing" by Paul Van Volkenberg published 1972, Hall never designed this sucker car. Cheverolet designed and built it for him to test.