We drove the LeGrand down a small, private road near our house to get some pictures of it in the daylight. The car starts and stops fine, but we do have to figure out the jetting and adjustment on the Mikuni RS carburetors. They were jetted for Medford, Oregon, which is at an adjusted 4000 feet of elevation.
While we were fiddling around, we looked over the logbook—there are actually three logbooks taped together as the car has been to a lot of races, including several SCCA Runoffs. The logbook has a tracking sheet for all of the different owners, and it reads like a who’s who of D Sports Racing (aside from those Schroeder folks).
Here are the different owners: Peter Schroeder: 1976-1978 Chuck Reupert: 1978-1982 Butch Moses: 1982-1984 Soter Slomski: 1984-1995 Vern Lyle: 1995-1998 Bob Campbell: 1998-2003 Hap Lovejoy: 2003-2005 Don Clark: 2005-20008 Per and Peter Schroeder: 2008-present
That’s a lot of different owners! We know that Soter Slomski did most of the road racing in the LeGrand, as he owned it the longest. He was also the one who converted it to the SCCA Solo minimum wheelbase of 80 inches. Hap Lovejoy restored the car back to original specs, replacing what was left of a watercooled Kawasaki Ninja engine with a modified aircooled Kawasaki KZ900 unit. The car still has the KZ900 engine today.
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