Apologies for dropping the ball on blogging of late… the whole flood thing earlier in the week threw me off schedule. I promise to wrap up my political rant from last week, though election day has come and gone, with precisely the outcome I was looking for (balance, not a D-win/R-lose)… but I still need to say what should be said.
Anyway, on to the CPOTD… I was walking the field of the Amelia Island Concours when the sight above appeared before my eyes. When I was a kid, my dad brought me to the Can Am races at Road America in Elkhart Lake WI. To say that I was blown away was an understatement. The rumble of those machines was sweet music to my young ears. The cars that appealed to me most were Jim Hall’s Chapparals. He was a perennial second or third behind the McLarens everytime we made the drive up to Wisconsin, but I cheered him on nonetheless. It was like meeting a childhood hero to see this car in the flesh back in 2003. Everytime nobody was looking, I touched it. I probably spent 10 minutes just looking at this machine from every angle… gleaming white in the Florida sunshine. I wouldn’t know Jim Hall if he bought me lunch, but I can recognize a Chaparral from a mile away.
the Bruce and Denny show!! … part of the golden years of Kiwi motorsport… not going to see the likes ot Bruce, Denny and Chris at the top again from the little old Kiwis…
Jerome
What a gorgeous foto, Chuck! Again, thanks to my wacko parents, I got to see Jim Hall hisself run the cars at CDR, in addition I got to see the ‘sucker car’ run…WOW!!
Amazing cars and an even more amazing fellow! He still has a toy track down in Texas, called “rattlesnake Raceways!”
Keep up the good work!
I believe Can Am was *the* premier racing show in America. These cars were wicked LOUD, VERY fast, and VERY dangerous! To see Mark Donahue run the Sunoco McLarens was one of my TOP memories!