Scarab Race Car For Sale. Conceived in the late 1950s by lance reventlow as an american road race car to rival the europeans the scarab had a short but illustrious career. Although reventlow had both the ambition and resources to continue development of the scarab his interests moved on to the ambitious f1 arena pursuing several attempts but meeting with less success.
Either way the truth is that scarab wins. The roadster body was penned by an 18 year old art student named chuck pelly and the scarab debuted march 1 1958 in the phoenix area on an old 2 5 mile airport racetrack driven by bruce kessler and setting a track record right out of the barrel. The scarab team was so dominant in racing that enzo ferrari himself was reported to have demanded the 412s be built to battle against the more powerful and reliable scarabs.
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The scarab also won the scca national championship in 1958 and two of the cars were sold in 1959 but continued to win races for several years. The new scarab was approved by the sportscar vintage racing association for all its track events the example offered here was built by scarab for richard mazer of scottsdale arizona who specified the optional rubber inner fender liners five speed transmission with helical cut gears remote master disconnect switch with emergency push button black seat belts four spoke steering wheel. Although reventlow had both the ambition and resources to continue development of the scarab his interests moved on to the ambitious f1 arena pursuing several attempts but meeting with less success. And thank you for your interest in this all american sports race car.
