The Chaparral Camaro is a known quantity. Even so, it’s maybe underappreciated. There’s something about the car that’s always ...

This week in 1970 leads us to race-car manufacturer Chaparral revealing its latest offering, the 2J, known as the "sucker car". Chaparral, known for its extreme emphasis (and huge spoilers) on ...

Saturday April 17 dawned bright and windy, the air such a palpable element of the west Texas environment that it made a man think that, "living here must have influenced the way Jim Hall's brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Just a few miles from the hum of oilfield operations sits one of the most important collections in ...

Jim Hall was a Texan businessman turned racing driver. He was pretty damned handy, but there were a lot of handy drivers in the 1960s racing scene. No, what marked Jim out wasn’t his driving, it was ...

Jim Hall's Chaparral built some of the wildest and most creative race cars ever seen. We visited Hall to see the amazing 2J and witness his first drive in it in 30 years. Fourteen years ago, ...

Texas racer and designer Jim Hall is best known for his Chaparral sports cars, which raced in both the Canadian-American Challenge Cup and in international sports car races abroad. But as a young ...