Frank Rand

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7100 Delmar Boulevard, University City; Home of the Rand family

Frank Chambless Rand III (born 1935 in University City ; † October 20, 2003 in Santa Barbara ) was an American entrepreneur and racing car driver .

family

Frank Rand was the grandson of Frank C. Rand (1876–1949), an American entrepreneur and philanthropist . He was the founder of the International Shoe Company and used his significant fortune to support universities and hospitals. His parents were Henry Hale Rand (1909–1962) and Dorothy Bolin . His sister Carla "Teddy" Rand was married to the painter , graphic artist and sculptor Ernest Trova . For 46 years he was married to Elizabeth Barry Hobson Rand. The couple had three children - a son and two daughters - and eight grandchildren.

Entrepreneur

After training at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Washington University in St. Louis , he joined the family business in the late 1950s and worked for Florsheim Shoes for five years . He left the company in the 1960s and became the youngest Porsche and Volkswagen dealer in the United States. Later, a representation came for Honda - Motorcycles added.

In the 1970s he switched from car dealer to real estate agent . He also trained as a flight instructor and ran a flight school in his new hometown of Phoenix . He spent the last years of his professional life as an IBM dealer in Santa Barbara, California .

Racing career

The trading and restoration of Porsche sports cars brought Rand to motorsport as a men 's driver. He started in national sports car races and in the SCCA sports car championship . He achieved his greatest success in an international endurance race . Together with Bill Wuesthoff and Bruce Jennings , he finished third overall in a Porsche 718 RS 60 in the Sebring 12-hour race in 1962 .

statistics

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1962 United StatesUnited States Porsche imports Porsche 718 RS 60 United StatesUnited States Bill Wuesthoff United StatesUnited States Bruce Jennings 3rd place and class win

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th
1962 Porsche imports Porsche 718 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MAY ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany BER GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance TAV ItalyItaly CCA United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
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literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Frank C. Rand (English)
  2. ↑ About Henry Hale Rand (English)
  3. ↑ Official website of Florsheim Shoe Company
personal data
SURNAME Rand, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rand, Frank Chambless III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH University City
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2003
Place of death Santa Barbara