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Post by 4wheels on Nov 21, 2018 17:25:26 GMT -8
The guy with his arm on the wing looks like he just felt a raindrop! After an all-nighter or a really long haul that would suck (been there)!
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Post by dustymojave on Dec 4, 2018 23:35:32 GMT -8
Gary...Been there...Done that...Super Mods, all-nighters, long distance between races and not near enough time to prep the car for the next event...Sprints, Midgets, road racers, desert race bike, offroad racers...I've had both the engine and gearbox of my own race car spread out all apart on the tongue of my trailer in the middle of the desert a couple hours before the start of the race. My son a couple of weeks ago raced in a Baja Bug in the Baja 1000. They replaced the gearbox 3x DURING the race, flipped the car, and still took 2nd in class.
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Post by garydavis on Dec 5, 2018 12:12:30 GMT -8
Yep...that's what we call..."THE RACE BUG". It gets into the blood. Can't get rid of it either....No known cure.
The Baja 1000...that's a grueling race. So he ran a VW at the Desert eh? It sounds like he did pretty darn good...specially after flipping the car and replacing the gear box 3X. Well done Son!!
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Dec 6, 2018 6:14:30 GMT -8
Richard, Congratulations to your Son on his his fine finish in the Baja 1000, a grueling race that takes a big pair of Steel Ones.. not doubt a major accomplishment.. Chris
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 20:23:44 GMT -8
Kinda fancying the photo here, cool shot! Good Job on picking it
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Post by Joel_W on Dec 17, 2018 14:41:36 GMT -8
Chris, You nailed it this time. I love it. Joel
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Post by afx on Dec 18, 2018 3:15:54 GMT -8
Great picture Chris. I prefer period photos and the 2J was such an innovative design.
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Post by Oldtimer on Dec 20, 2018 12:15:26 GMT -8
If there were ever a more innovative group, then it had to have been Jim Hall's backdoor GM Skunkworks Chaparral program.
I had the fortunate/unfortunate pleasure/displeasure of being at Texas World Speedway in 1969 for the end of the Can Am season.
Super Sub Tom Dutton, sitting in for an "ailing" John Surtees, stuffed the 2H into a steel door which opened between the outback road course and the Nascar oval. Sources reported that the entire car was a mass of stress cracks.
The team quickly loaded up the remains onto an open trailer, and hit the road back to Midland.
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Dec 20, 2018 12:51:02 GMT -8
I dont know if I mentioned it but "How is the 2H related to Slot Cars? " We got a call from Jim Hall during the build of the car at the shop and he wanted to know if we knew a NASA Scientist named Chuck Hallum and about a material that was flexible, bullet proof and had very little wear for his planned skirting. Chuck Hallum use to spend all of his time at our shop , he was paraplegic due to a Liquid Nitrogen spill on the launch pad, froze his entire bottom half of his body! And Jim Hall had heard we were using a clear flexible material called Lexan for vac-u-form slot car bodies. Chuck told him all about Lexan, its properties and who to call at GE to get it from, Jim did and of course it showed up on the 2H.. we did get passes that year to Riverside courtesy of Chaparral Cars, and we had a great time.. Chris
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Post by dustymojave on Dec 20, 2018 22:38:02 GMT -8
Lexan...aka polycarbonate...GE's info sent to my lab when I worked in Plastics Research, said that Lexan in 1/4" thick plate, would stop a .45 ACP bullet "at point blank range". Around that time (mid-1970s) an offroad racer showed up for the annual Mickey Thompson/SCORE race at Riverside Raceway (the course used was mostly on the dirt) with a single seat buggy to race in the unlimited class. The safety rules for SCORE at the time required a roof panel of steel or aluminum, or netting. This racer felt it would be safer if he used a roof panel of 1/4" Lexan. The then Chief of Tech for SCORE passing by as I teched the car, told the racer it was NOT acceptable. So the racer told the Chief he would hit the roof with a sledge hammer to prove it was tough enough. The Chief told him that it could survive that that plastic is brittle and easily broken. He built gearboxes for a living and really did NOT understand plastics. I was confident it would survive. So the guy went and got a sledge hammer from somewhere at the track and brought it back. He parked the car in front of all the Tech inspection lines and stood up on the front of the car with the hammer. He hollered out to get everybody's attention, then swung the hammer and hit the middle of the roof panel quite hard. It didn't even scratch the plastic. Yet the Chief of Tech refused still to allow the plastic roof. So the racer left in a huff and I never encountered him in Tech at a race again. I think he sold the car and gave up on SCORE and all other off road race organizations (most all other organizations were using SCORE's rules and most still do).
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Post by vintagerpm on Dec 21, 2018 6:09:12 GMT -8
If there were ever a more innovative group, then it had to have been Jim Hall's backdoor GM Skunkworks Chaparral program. I had the fortunate/unfortunate pleasure/displeasure of being at Texas World Speedway in 1969 for the end of the Can Am season. Super Sub Tom Dutton, sitting in for an "ailing" John Surtees, stuffed the 2J into a steel door which opened between the outback road course and the Nascar oval. Sources reported that the entire car was a mass of stress cracks. The team quickly loaded up the remains onto an open trailer, and hit the road back to Midland. I think you mean the 2H, not the 2J. Still, a shame to have missed a Chaparral of any kind run. Mike
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Post by Oldtimer on Dec 21, 2018 6:10:55 GMT -8
If there were ever a more innovative group, then it had to have been Jim Hall's backdoor GM Skunkworks Chaparral program. I had the fortunate/unfortunate pleasure/displeasure of being at Texas World Speedway in 1969 for the end of the Can Am season. Super Sub Tom Dutton, sitting in for an "ailing" John Surtees, stuffed the 2J into a steel door which opened between the outback road course and the Nascar oval. Sources reported that the entire car was a mass of stress cracks. The team quickly loaded up the remains onto an open trailer, and hit the road back to Midland. I think you mean the 2H, not the 2J. Still, a shame to have missed a Chaparral of any kind run. Mike You are right, thought I corrected it in the OP when I reviewed prior to posting. I have corrected it. Thanks!
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Post by Joel_W on Dec 21, 2018 6:54:48 GMT -8
I'm more and more impressed with the knowledge of the members on this board. All of you are like a living Road Racing encyclopedia.
Joel
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Dec 21, 2018 9:26:31 GMT -8
Mike, I was fortunate to see Every Chaparral race even the 2k . I am standing next to the pole on the left, to the right is my brother, next is my Dad in the Shelby shirt ( that was the year the AAR guys all showed up in Shelby shirts) and sitting is our friend Jerry Gaston.. Riverside Int. Raceway 1968 ....this pic showed up on a FB page and blew me away because I was 13 then... Chris
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Post by afx on Dec 28, 2018 5:55:41 GMT -8
The 312PB is the most beautiful prototype race car Ferrari ever produced IMHO, excellent choice Chris. Aurora/AFX produced a very nice HO scale slot car which I have in my collection.
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