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Originally Posted by 3GFX
Love the engineering and creativeness behind it.
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Murray gave a lot of creativity credit to Texan, Jim Hall. Eight years earlier (1970), Hall came out with his Chaparral 2J to race in the SCCA's Group 7 (Can-Am Series). We watched (in awe) this car race in the Watkins Glen Can-Am. Jackie Stewart qualified some 2 seconds faster than the McLarens, the 917's, the Lola's and the Ferrari's (it dominated before brake failure forced its retirement). Later, Bruce McLaren and the rest got the SCCA to ban it.
Here it climbs the hill at Goodwood (49 seconds)....talk about dusting things up.