The Chaparral Wing

The Permian Basin Oil Museum has several other wings with exhibits that don't necessarily have anything to do with oil but are part of Midlands history.  The Chaparral wing has about 8 millions dollars worth of Chaparral race cars.  Jim Hall was one of the founders of Chaparral cars and won many races back in the 60's in these cars.  The first ones made were the Chaparral 2 series and those are the ones on display.

It actually rained here for about 3 minutes.  It was great because it washes the dust out of the air for a little while.  We finally finished painting the outside of a log house and the office.  Now Jim gets to paint the cement sidewalk areas around the both.  I have started reupholstering the seats and backrests on one of the golf carts.  Of course when I took the old fabric off the seat the board beneath it was all rotted.  Jim had to cut a new one and move all of the hinges and handles which were rusted on -- oh what fun we had.