Steve Earle announced the featured marque this year. the Chaparral, as the
lead for the larger theme... Drum roll Please: American Specials !!!
This is as close a Peyote will ever get to being part of the featured
marque.
Of course last time I checked Chaparral is actually the more Spanish name
for the all American pucker brush, that tough, oakey stuff that you run into
on your desert bike and it simply stops dead (and you don't). But what the
heck.
Of course since specials are the featured marque this will probably be the
first year ever that Peyote doesn't get invited.
<http://www.montereyhistoric.com/news/05_ann.html>
http://www.montereyhistoric.com/news/05_ann.html
> >
> > MONTEREY, Calif. (January 22, 2005) - Chaparral, one
> > of the truly great
> > names in American racing history, will be the
> > Featured Marque of the 32nd
> > Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races Presented
> > by Chrysler August 19-21
> > at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Steven J. Earle,
> > founder of the event
> > announced today. The legendary American marque will
> > be part of the event's
> > overall tribute to the "Great American Specials."
> > While the major
> > manufacturers have long been the dominant force in
> > automobile racing,
> > individual efforts in the American tradition of
> > championing the underdog
> > have produced special cars to challenge the "big
> > guns" over the years.
> > Perhaps, no one represented the ingenuity of this
> > industry more than Jim
> > Hall and Chaparral Cars.
> >
> > Hall, along with fellow racer Hap Sharp, started a
> > small racing team in
> > 1962 in Midland, Texas, naming the team Chaparral,
> > the Spanish word for
> > road runner, a common bird in West Texas. They
> > designed, built and tested a
> > series of innovative and powerful race cars on a
> > private two-mile test track
> > behind their garages named Rattlesnake Raceway.
> >
> > It is a bold statement, but nonetheless true, to say
> > that Hall
> > revolutionized the sport of auto racing in the
> > 1960s. He introduced the
> > first movable wing in 1965 and his work with
> > aerodynamic wings, ground
> > effects and lightweight construction materials
> > transformed auto racing.
> >
> > At a time when many of the great race cars were
> > designed and built in
> > Europe, their success gave American race fans a team
> > to cheer for. While
> > Chaparral Cars enjoyed many victories all over the
> > world, maybe the most
> > prestigious win came when Johnny Rutherford drove a
> > Chaparral 2K to victory
> > in the 1980 Indianapolis 500.
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