LeGrand FB

[M.Sauce]

I recently bought a car and it was represented as a Legrand FB Mk9. Originally it was a F3 car but then adapted with a Twin Cam and Ft200 for FB in the States. Anyone have any info on this car? It is supposedly the only one ever built. Any info would be appreciated.

[Gokart Mozart]

Mike,

Message me some dimensions or post a photo and I'll see what I can find in my LeGrand notes.

Cheers,

Jacques

[rv greg]

Does it have a fiberglass tub? I saw this car back in 2005 in SpringFeild OR. at Bob Yarwoods shop.

https://books.google.com/books?id=oZ...rglass&f=false

[provamo]

Does it have a fiberglass tub? I saw this car back in 2005 in SpringFeild OR. at Bob Yarwoods shop.

https://books.google.com/books?id=oZ...rglass&f=false

so did Le Grand build a fiberglass tub? i think the Huffaker Indy cars at that time were FRP tubs too

[DanW]

Perhaps this link, and Al James might be of help?

http://www.groupj.net/legrand-registry.html

[rv greg]

Now that I think of it it may have been a Huffaker not a LeGrand.

[Steve Demeter]

Greg,


By Huffaker Indy Cars are you referring to the Liquid Suspension Special that Walt Hangsen drove?

If they had composite tubs in that era they were WAAAAYYYYY ahead of their time.

[teamwisconsin]

The Huffaker Liquid Suspension Specials (and the twin engine Porsche powered Indycar) were all tube framed cars. The chassis were all built in house by Willy Stryker, the same man who built all the Huffaker Genie chassis.

[provamo]

Greg,


By Huffaker Indy Cars are you referring to the Liquid Suspension Special that Walt Hangsen drove?

If they had composite tubs in that era they were WAAAAYYYYY ahead of their time.

it was tough for this young teenager to tell what the mode of construction was when i saw them on a dealership floor in the early sixties

[gerhard_k]

so did Le Grand build a fiberglass tub? i think the Huffaker Indy cars at that time were FRP tubs too

Just going back through old postings - "Red" never built a fiberglass tub, certainly not in this 1967-68 time frame. He was a masterful fabricator with round-tube frames, though; eutectic-brazed with a gas fluxer in the British manner. I never tired of watching him holding a piece of tubing up to another, using his metal shears to cut a "fish-mouth" to fit into the junction just right every time the first time. Ah - memories...

[Frank Monise]

Could this be Tito D'Oporto's formula C car? We traded the Twin Cam from my Lotus 22 (22J2) for
the 1100cc Ford MAE from his car and some money. He wanted to move up to FB and I would never
get the value of my Twin cam in the out classed Lotus22.

[Mondial]

I recently bought a car and it was represented as a Legrand FB Mk9. Originally it was a F3 car but then adapted with a Twin Cam and Ft200 for FB in the States. Anyone have any info on this car? It is supposedly the only one ever built. Any info would be appreciated.

Mike
Do you still have this car?

jeff

[M.Sauce]

No I sold it two years ago.