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Chaparral Cars was a pioneering American automobile racing team and race car developer that engineered, built, and raced cars from 1963 through 1970. Founded in 1962 by American Formula One racers Hap Sharp and Jim Hall , it was named after the roadrunner , a fast-running ground cuckoo also known as a chaparral bird .
Mark Van Blarcom Slade (born May 1, 1939) is an American actor, artist, and author, particularly remembered for his role of Billy Blue Cannon on the NBC Western television series The High Chaparral. [1]
Chaparral is a coastal biome with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. The chaparral area receives about 38–100 cm (15–39 in) of precipitation a year. This makes the chaparral most vulnerable to fire in the late summer and fall.
The Chaparral 2J is a sports prototype race car, designed and developed by Jim Hall and Hap Sharp, and built by American manufacturer Chaparral. It conformed to Group 7 regulations and competed in the 1970 Can-Am Championship series. [5] [6] It is an early example of a ground effect racing car. [7] The 2J was the most unusual Chaparral.
Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges [1] (24 February 1931 [1] – 27 June 2020 [2] [3]), known professionally as Linda Cristal (Spanish:), was an Argentine-American actress.She appeared in a number of Western films during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1958 comedy film The Perfect Furlough.
Larrea tridentata, called creosote bush, greasewood, [2] and chaparral is a medicinal herb. [3] In Sonora, it is more commonly called hediondilla ; [ 4 ] Spanish hediondo = "smelly". It is a flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae .
The Chaparral 1 was a sports racing car, designed, developed and built by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes, and raced by Jim Hall, between 1958 and 1961. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is considered to be the first true "Chaparral," prior to the introduction and founding of Chaparral Cars by Hall in 1962.
The Chaparral 2F is a Group 6 sports prototype designed by Jim Hall and Hap Sharp and built under their company Chaparral Cars. Built with the intention to compete in the World Sportscar Championship , it competed in the 1967 season , with a best finish of first at the BOAC 500 , driven by Phil Hill and Mike Spence .