Points on undrivability well taken. John, you have good taste... The 2J was an animal, especially considdering it had the Chapparal "mystery automatic". I had the great fortune of finding an article from Road and Track about the early Chapparals (from the 2 to the 2E). It concluded by explaining how the "automatic" worked. Turns out that it was just a manual fitted with a torque converter instead of a clutch, eliminating the need to modulate the clutch. Concerning its ground effects, Jim Hall had the car going around the track like it was on rails. Anyway... I too thought of a series of racing- real stock car racing. What I mean that the car would have to be a production car that is avalible to the general public, meaning that homolagation (pardon my spelling) numbers would be around 2000. The factory can have no more than 5 entrants, all of which have to be 100% road legal. That means that the car has to pass emissions, noise, and safety standards. The cars would race on not only super-speedways, but on road courses like Laguna Seca and Nurburgring. The cars would be inspected before each race for emisions and noise (I can't figure out a way for safety to be tested before each race). The cars may not be tuned specialy for each race, as they must be tuned for the series. The cars would be seperated into classes by the cost of the car to the public. On top of that, the cars would be divided by wheter they are stock or not, meaning that if you are not racing for a factory team, which cannot modify their cars, you will race in the stock class if your car is stock. If your car is modified, you will race in the non-stock category.
