"MOTORCYCLIST and
DIRT RIDER are my
motorcycling bibles."
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-Jerry Grant
Name: Jerry Grant
Auto racing career: S,tarted out racing
midgets and modified hardtops; twice SCCA
Northwest Sports Car Champion; SCCA Driver
of the Year in Northwest Division; Western Canadian Sports Car Champ; drove for Dan Gurney for seven years, assisting in winning a
World's Manufacturing Championship for Ford
. Motor Co.; drove the Indianapolis 500 ten times;
first driver in auto racing history to run an official lap over 200 miles per hour
Riding histOry: "Motorcycles have been my
hobby for as long as I can remember, probably
30 years. I would say half the people in auto racing are hobbyist riders or racers. And some of
them are frrst-elass riders. It's the way I escape
the telephone, and it's how I keep from getting
ulcers. To me, it's the vacation that's always
around the comer."
Riding preference: "I own a street bike, but
my favorite type of riding is otT-road. We ride in
the high desert, and ~hen it gets too hot, we go
up into the Sierras, sometimes we get up into the
snow when it's 95 degrees down below. I'm on
the road a lot, but when I'm home our frrst priority is riding. I'll tell you how much we enjoy
it..On Father's Day, we got up at 3:00 a.m. to go
riding so we could be back for dinner at 2:30
p.m. It's a heavy priority."
llagazlnes: "MOTORCYCLIST and DIRT
RIDER are my motorcycling bibles. Today, motorcycles change as quickly as the clock, and
there's no way the average buyer can go out and
make an intelligent pick on his own. You have
to have faith in the people you're reading, and
MOTORCYCLIST and DIRT RIDER affect
what I'm go~g to purchase next. Every month
I look forward to jumping into both magazines
and reading them from
first page to last. I get
a lot of literature in my It}i~~
job-about 25 pieces a
day-and DIRT RIDER and MOTORCYCLIST take priority
over all of them. The
way I look at things is,
if you're going to do
something, do it right.
They're certainly a
class act."
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