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ROAD RUNNING IN THE LAND OF THE HIGH SKY; Where Jim Hall's Chaparrals find a parking space but not a resting place.

Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON Saturday April 17 dawned bright and windy, the air such a palpable element of the west Texas environment that it made a man think that, "living here must have influenced the way Jim Hall's brain worked.'' That morning, Hall went to his garages at Rattlesnake Raceway, the track he built with Hap Sharp in the late '50s, lifted the gullwing door and climbed behind the wheel of the Chaparral 2F. It's a pretty modern-looking machine, this high-winged FIA endurance-racing coupe in which Phil Hill won the BOAC race at Brands Hatch in 1967. With his ...