The Chaparral 2D

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Your thoughts?


In my opinion, it's one of the most beautiful race cars ever. I can't believe it's from 1967! The curvy look is way ahead of its time.


It's an absolute blast to drive in GT4, especially with a Stage 3 turbo. The car isn't glued to the track the way an R8 is, but the handling has something unique about it that makes it so much fun to drive.


What are your thoughts about this car?
 
Its certainly unique and great to drive, but the 2J looks even weirder with those fan/turbine things on the back. Am I right in saying the 2D's only got 4 gears cos I seems to remember its acceleration being all over the place.
 
This is from memory, but I think it was just 3 speeds, simulating the GM automatic tranny used in the real car.
 
The 2D is one of my favorite cars in GT4. I have a Hot Wheel of it so I was stoked to find Polyphony Digital included it this time around.

 
I remembe three gears, but I also remember there being enough power to propell the car nicely, stock. The corvette C1 has two gears. Much worse than the 2d.
 
Yes its only got 3 gears, and yes the accel. is strange, but its a brilliant car that was ahead of its time.

Does Chapparel still produce races cars?
 
TribalTone
Does Chapparel still produce races cars?
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Unfortunately, no. Jim Hall stopped designing cars in the 80's, and now operates a racing school in California... for which many Texans are waiting for him to come back home. ;)

Jim Hall is truly a remarkable man, with a very colorful resume, both in his personal and professional life. As a driver, builder, and professor, he has been responsible for many advancements in automotive racing, and like Carol Shelby, is an icon in the automotive racing world.

As for Chapparel's, all told I think about a dozen models were built. There is a museum in Midland Texas that aquired a large collection of his cars and built a wing to display them in. On their site, they have some decent pics of some of the cars in the collection. They also sell a DVD with historic racing footage of many of the cars in action. Here is a LINK to their website.
 
TribalTone
Yes its only got 3 gears, and yes the accel. is strange, but its a brilliant car that was ahead of its time.

Does Chapparel still produce races cars?
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uh, think I read somewhere that they made one more new car using the old original fiberglass molds

I love driving the car, I drive the it as a stick shift, I love cruising and listening to the engine pur, while driving it reminds me of what it might of been like to drive the car back then. I love the curves that the body has, and yet the simple racing paint job of white and the black number make it look right, as it should be. It proves you dont need 50 million colors on your car to make it look nice. I find cruising in the car to be very enjoyable, especialy if you are stressed out about something. One nice thing about its three speed is that you dont have to shift every five seconds.

here is their website
www.chaparralcars.com/index.php
 
As long as you don't drop below about 40mph the acceleration in this thing is great. I too love the "old school" handling. It actually handles a lot like a good MR road car, but with more grip than most of them. Unlike most race cars, it has a little bit of forgiveness to it. I was just driving it again earlier this evening and thinking that it and the Pagani Zonda race car are my two favorite race cars in the game (I generally prefer driving road cars).

I think what I like best of all is the way you can throw it around a lot like an MR road car, just makes it a blast for me!!!
 
Digital-Nitrate
now operates a racing school in California... for which many Texans are waiting for him to come back home. ;)J
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The Jim Hall (actually Jim Hall II) who runs the kart racing school is not the Jim Hall of Chaparral fame (I don't know if they are related but he sure looks like he could be his son).

Digital, nice summary and link 👍
 
The 2D is definitely one of my favorites.

I really don't mind the fact that it only has a 3-speed gearbox as it is really powerful, plus it means you don't have to shift gears often. :)
 
General specifications
Record last updated 06 / 14 / 2006
Country of origin United States
Years of production 1966 - 1967
Numbers built 2 (2D001 - 2D002)
Body design Jim Hall
Weight 925 kilo / 2039.3 lbs
Drivetrain
Engine Chevrolet 90º V 8
Engine Location Mid , longitudinally mounted
Displacement 5.356 liter / 326.8 cu in
Valvetrain 2 valves / cylinder, OHV
Fuel feed Weber 48 IDM Carburetors
Aspiration Naturally Aspirated
Gearbox Chaparral 6 speed Automatic <~~ NOTICE AUTOBOXER!! JIM REPLY WHEN ASKED WHY HE USED AUTOMATICS? "IS THIS WAY I CAN CONSONTRATE ON DRIVING NOT ON WHAT GEAR I NEED TO BE IN"
Drive Rear wheel drive
Performance figures
Power 420 bhp / 313 KW @ 6800 rpm
Torque N/A
BHP/Liter 78 bhp / liter
Power to weight ratio 0.45 bhp / kg
Top Speed N/A
0-60 mph Acceleration N/A
Resources
Suggested reading Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970, by Harold W. Pace and Mark R. Brinker
Chaparral, by Richard Falconer with Doug Ny
jim hall is the father of ground effects
any thing ya wanna know bout Jim hall and his awsome cars can be found here
http://www.chaparralcars.com/index.php

:)
 
By the 1970's Chaparral started making F1 cars in partnership with McLaren. They weren't exactly successful though.
 
I love the 2D! When i was just window shopping through the dealerships it suprized me that they had this car.. and looking at its beauty i just knew i had to have it. So i saved up the 1.1 million cr to buy that thing right off the bat :) it was only later i learned that you actually won it too... :dunce:

Someone said something about its shape being ahead of its time? I wouldn't say so, but maybe by a year at best. Similar looking cars that came out the same year would be the Lola T70, Porsche 906, and the Ferrari 330P, with the Matra MS630 coming in a year later. Hopefully we get to see these cars in the upcoming game :drool:

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I would love it if they made a bunch of old sixies and 70's can-am cars all of jims cars the old 904 and 917k porshes, lolas, ect
and some of the older tracks they raced on
they already made Nurembergring would be great if they made it like it was in the 60'-70's before all the changes it has now
Riverside raceway would be great too.
On a note about the j2: tho hope the put way better a.i in the new game due to the fact, i was just playing around and driving that car on the seattle road and noticed it kinda slid a bit more then it should have.
i posted a few years ago on the gt2 thread about the j2
some one had joked about " whom uses a autoboxer in racing anyways?"
alot of people told him of the f1 cars and there paddle shifting and the grearboxes are semi auto, so i posted about jim hall and his wonderful cars and how he used automatics, and i was reading on a site i had that when they started the fan motors in the rear the downforce was so great it sucked the car down 2 inches! while the car was at idle.
and the car with the fans running to " suck" it to the track was so great it was like driving on rails.
also on the post by peterjb on the f1 cars they made, <not knocking your or hashing you in anyway> if i recall correct it wasnt f1 right away, it was indy cars and they won with rick mears driving i could be wrong on the f1 thingy tho but think was little later 70's or might have been closer to the 80's on that ill have to check
 
In the June 07 issue of Car and Driver there is an article about
Chaparral-seems Jim Hall is building 'new' Chaparral 2E's using the original tooling from the 1960's. Great article, brilliant guy, ahead of his time to the point of being marginalized in his day.
 
I think it's AWESOME!!! Except for the fact that when you do B-Spec for an endurance race the B-Spec driver doesn't know what to do with it. You've got to be good to handle it! My favorite feature though is that it can go 130 mph in reverse.

Whoops, I'm thinking about the 2J. The 2D's a good car too.
 
TIME LINE FOR CHAPARRAL:
1961
Chaparral 1
SCCA Laguna Seca, Hall 2nd
Riverside, Hall 3rd

1962
Chaparral 1
Riverside, Hall 2nd
Road America June Sprints, Hall 1st
Road America 500, Hall and Sharp 1st

1963
Chaparral 2
Riverside, Hall pole position
Laguna Seca, Hall 3rd

1964
Chaparral 2
USRRC Augusta Georgia, Hall fastest lat and 2nd
USRRC Pensacola, Hall 1st
USRRC Laguna Seca, Hall 1st, Penske 2nd
USRRC Kent, Sharp 2nd Hall fastest lap
Mosport Hall pole position, Penske fastest lap and 9th
USRRC Watkins Glenn, Hall fastest lap and 1st, Penske 2nd
USRRC Greenwood, Iowa, Hall 3rd, Sharp fastest lap
USRRC Meadowdale, IL, Hall 1st, Penske 2nd
USRRC Mid-Ohio, Sharp 1st, Hall fastest lap and 2nd
Riverside, Penske 2nd
Laguna Seca, Penske fastest lap and 1st
Nassau, Sharp/Penske 1st

1965
Chaparral 2
Sebring, Hall/Sharp fastest lap and 1st
USRRC Riverside, Hall 1st, Sharp fastest lap and 2nd
USRRC Laguna Seca, Hall 1st
Bridgehampton, Hall fastest lap and 1st, Sharp 2nd
Mosport, Hall fastest lap and 2nd
Elkhart Lake, Hall fastest lap and 1st
USRRC Watkins Glen, Hall fastest lap and 1st, Sharp 2nd
FIA Mr. Tremblant, Canada, Hall fastest lap and 2nd, Sharp 3rd
USRRC Kent, Hall 1st Sharp fastest lap and 2nd
USRRC Continental Divide, CO, Sharp 1st, Hall 4th
USRRC Mid-Ohio, Sharp 1st
Road America 500 Hall/Sharp/Hissom 1st, Hall/Sharp/Jennigs 2nd
Bridgehampton, Sharp fastest lap and 1st
Mosport, Hall fastest lap and 1st
Kent WA, Hall fastest lap and 1st, Chaparral 2C, Sharp 2nd
Laguna Seca, Sharp fastest lap and 2nd
Riverside, Sharp 1st
Las Vegas, Sharp 1st, Hall fastest lap and 3rd
Nassau, Sharp 1st, Hall fastest lap, Chaparral 2C

1966
Chaparral 2E
Bridgehampton, Hall pole position, Hill 4th
Mosport, Hill 2nd
Laguna Seca, Hill 1st, Hall 2nd, pole position
Riverside, Hall 2nd and fastest lap

Chaparral 2D
Nurburgring 1000 Km, Bonnier/Hill 1st

1967
Chaparral 2G
Road America 200, Hall 4th
Laguna Seca, Hall 2nd
Riverside Hall 2nd

Chaparral 2F
Daytona, Hill/Spence fastest lap
Sebring, Hall/Spence fastest lap
Monza, Hill/Spence pole position
Spa, Hill/Spence fastest lap
Nurburgring, Hill/Spence fastest lap
Brands Hatch, Hill/Spence 1st

1968
Chaparral 2G
USRRC, Riverside, Hall pole position
USRRC Laguna Seca, Hall 3rd
Road America 200, Hall 5th
Bridgehampton, Hall 2nd
Laguna Seca, Hall pole position
Riverside, Hall 3rd

1969
Chaparral 2H
Edmonton Canada, Surtees 4th
Mid-Ohio, Surtees 5th

1970's
Chaparral 2J
Watkins Glenn, Stewart fastest lap
Road Atlanta, Elford pole position and 6th
Laguna Seca, Elford pole position
Riverside, Elford pole position

Other highlights
Jim Hall manages a Formula 500 team to win three consecutive seasons
( LONG GONE DIDNT THINK JIM DID THE F1 CIRCUT ....)
Jim Hall puts together Indy car team in 1978 and driver Al Unser wins the Indy car "triple crown" of Indianapolis 500, the Pocono 500, and the California 500
In 1979 Chaparral introduces the revolutionary Chaparral 2K with "ground effects"

1980's
Chaparral 2K
Driven by Johnny Rutherford wins pole position and the 1980 Indy 500 and the PPG Indy car Championship

1990's
A return to Indy Cars
Jim Hall builds an Indy team with drivers John Andretti, Teo Fabi and Gil de Ferran, and the team scores wins at Surfers Paradise Australia, Laguna Seca and Cleveland and the "Rookie of the Year" honor for de Ferran.
 
Greetings One And All,
Fireball's photos brought back a flood of memories, of what had to be one of the most exciting racing series of all times, Can Am. I had the great fortune to drive at several venues, in a Lola T70, from 1967-1969. What wsa so impressive about Mr. Halls cars was the attention to detail, and the inovation! These were thunderously fast, Godawful powerful cars built without the benefit of computer, or electronic systems. These were cars that had torque enough to change the Earth's rotation! And speeds that were chilling in their absolute velocity. Mistakes were met with disasterous, and some times fatal results. But to hear a grid full of these monsters at full cry ripping down the front straight at The Glen, or to rip through the curves at Riverside was an experience that still brings chills!
The Chappy is a beautiful machine, and a fantastic representitive of a bygone era, of great machines and even greater men. I for one am most glad to have it in my garage
Nostalgicaly Yours,
Fangio
 
I had a Tyco HO Slot Car of the 2G, which is like the 2D with a rear wing.
 

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