Images
courtesy and copyright Greg Cooper
and Pete
Lyons
Text
copyright
Michael
J. Fuller
Jim
Hall's Chaparrals are known for their revolutionary ideas being the archetype
for many current design details. The Chaparral 2J is the ground-breaking
"Sucker Car". The 2J generated aerodynamic grip via a snow mobile
engine hooked up to generate suction along the underside of the underbody.
Pete Lyons, author of the book Can-Am, generously let us use some of his images and they nicely compliment the page giving us additional insight. Many thanks to Mr. Lyons. |