# @motorsport.images on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMAdDtKoZsN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32331451-motorsportimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-12T12:05:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Motorsport Images (@motorsport.images) — https://gondola.cc/motorsport.images

## Caption

👀 A happy 55th birthday to the Chaparral 2J! 🥳 When the Brabham BT46B was but a twinkle in Gordon Murray's eye, Jim Hall and Hap Sharp put together a boxy ground effect beast with three gears and two engines - one to power the car, and the other to power the fans from an M-109 Howitzer tank! 🪖
 
It made its race debut On This Day at Can-Am's 1970 visit to Watkins Glen in the expert hands of Sir Jackie Stewart, though it didn't finish - in fact, the 2J was eyewateringly fast but mechanically fragile, and only finished one round in 1970 before being banned. 🥀

(You could say...we're big fans 😍)

[📸 1970 Can-Am at Watkins Glen and Riverside]

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## Tags

jimhall, canam, motorsportphotography, chaparral2j, stem, racinghistory, innovation, hapsharp, chaparralcars, photographyhistory, gettyimages, latimages, fancar, watkinsglen, motorsporthistory, f1history, gettysport, onthisday

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