WILLIAM R. CHAPIN
BACK IN THE DAY
THE YOUNG BILL CHAPIN
AT HOME
Posing for a Photography Session
Cleaning His Gun
William R. Chapin has been president of the Automotive Hall of Fame, in Dearborn, Michigan, since July 2010. His grandfather, Roy Dikeman Chapin, and his father, Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., are both Automotive Hall of Fame inductees. Roy D. Chapin was a founder of the Hudson Motor Car Co. (and a Secretary of Commerce); Roy D. Chapin, Jr., was the Chairman and C.E.O. of AMC (American Motors Corporation). After graduating from Babson College in 1972, Bill Chapin joined the family business, spending fourteen years with AMC. After AMC, he founded Chapin & Co and the MotorCities National Heritage Area. For more details of his biography, see here; for a contemporary photograph, here.
