Jeffrey E Schwartz

Jeff Schwartz, in full Jeffrey Elmer Schwartz, was born on June 12, 1958, in Bemidji, Minnesota, and is an American racer and car builder. He began as a motocross rider in the 1970s, entering an average of 36 American Motorcyclist Association sanctioned events a year on Puch and Monark machines fitted with his own long-travel suspension. His car racing began in 1979 when he won the National Council of Corvette Club Midwest Regional Championship in his first year, and in 1982 he was named SCCA Chicago Region Rookie Driver of the Year before moving up to IMSA pro races in 1983. He later became a protouring car builder, a six-time winner of the Car Craft Real Street Eliminator competition, and in 2016 founded the Schwartz Motocross History Museum in McHenry County, Illinois, to preserve motocross history.