| Other Chaparrals
Unlike Jim
Hall's later rear-engined Chaparral II, which had covert GM factory
backing, Troutman-Barnes offered the original Chaparral for sale to private
owners.
| Harry Heuer, scion of
the Peter Hand Brewery family, bought the first customer car #002.
He raced it for his "Meister Brauser" team alongside the team's single
remaining
Scarab.
The car appeared in bare
aluminum for the 1961 Riverside GP, but blew its engine in qualifying.
Heuer went on to campaign
the car with some success at SCCA National and pro events in 1962-63.
Here at Laguna Seca, he DNF'd.
(Photo by Dave Norton) |
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| Collector and Monterey
Historic competitor Tom Hollfelder has acquired and restored the ex-Heuer
Chaparral. The car appeared at the 2002 Monterey Historic Races
with Paul Brown driving.
Brown finished 2nd to Brian Redman in a Scarab. |
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Hudson in the "Team Meridian" Chaparral.
This customer car appeared
at pro events in 1963.
At the USRRC event at
Laguna Seca in June, Hudson finished 3rd.
(I scanned this great
photo by Julian Veovich from the cover of the 1964 Laguna Seca USRRC Program.) |
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