1967 Le Grand MK 3B

 1967 LeGRAND MK3B SPORTRACER

• Mostly complete, but disassembled for restoration
• SCCA Formula B race car converted to sports racer configuration
  
• Tubular steel chassis fiberglass body, mid-engine design
• Rocker-arm front suspension, (very advanced for this era)
• Ford "Kent" 1600cc crossflow dry-sump engine with twin Webers
• Porsche transaxle
• Original LeGrand magnesium alloy wheels
• 1 of 10 known MK3B left. The Mk3 was the first car to use the Le Grand name.
• Design work for the Mk3 started in the winter of 1964, when SCCA introduced new rules for formula cars. With design help from Bruce Eglington, and styling by Don Stephan, LeGrand produced the Mk3 for the 1965 season for SCCA Formula B &C classes. This car followed the Mk1 and Mk2 design and featured inboard front suspension, but now used magnesium rocker arms, hubs, wheels, uprights and steering box castings.
• The current logbook lists the SCCA history in the early 1980's
• Very unique period sportsracer project, including most components

 

$7,900 "AS IS", more details coming soon

Mk3 and Mk4 - LeGrand Stakes His Claim

The Mk3 was the first car to use the LeGrand name, due to a prior conflict with similarly named cars that Bill Thomas was making for Chevrolet. Design work for the Mk3started in the winter of 1964, when SCCA introduced new rules for formula cars. With design help from Bruce Eglington, and styling by Don Stephan, LeGrand produced the Mk3 for the 1965 season for SCCA Formula B &C classes. This car followed the Mk1 and Mk2 design and featured inboard front suspension, but now used magnesium rocker arms, hubs, wheels, uprights and steering box castings. In an effort to keep unsprung weight to an absolute minimum, Airheart calipers were used at all four corners and were connected to the master cylinders with plastic tubing. These cars were right at the weight minimums of 750 pounds for Formula C and 850 pounds for Formula B. Bruce Eglington went to race in Europe soon after the car was finished, and therefore had no national level success with this truly great race car. , The car did attract drivers, however, such as Lou Sell, Carl Knapp, and Earl Jones. Bob McQueen won races on the East Coast in the first Mk3, with Jones, Knapp and Sell winning on the West Coast. Earl Jones, with an Alfa powered car, won the American Road Race of Champions Formula B race for LeGrand at Daytona in 1965, finishing ahead of Mark Donohue. After a production of 20 of the Mk3s, Red moved the manufacturing out of his garage, and into a new production facility in Sylmar, California. The Mk3 was in many ways the zenith for LeGrand Racecars. After only 4 years, this small California company was producing top level formula cars.