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1962 Mid-engine Scarab
This one of one Mid engine Scarab ready to race Santa Barbara 1962 as car No 16 driven by Lance Reventlow. Initially powered by a Buick Engine it was slower than expected but the debut race for this beautiful race car finished a remarkable second to Krause's Maserati Birdcage.
Mid Engine Scarab - an incomplete history
1962 Mid Engined Scarab by Mike Sells
The history of the Scarabs is well documented in "Scarab" by Preston Lerner (out of print) and I highly recommend it if you're interested in any of the cars they built and raced in the mid 50's and early 60's. A small private but extremely professional team eventually forced out of the business for tax reasons, they were very successful with the early cars if rather less so as time went on. All of the cars were finely crafted and beautifully turned out and the mid-engine car was no exception. It was created to compete in the newly formed USSRC professional racing series which evolved into the Cam Am events. Originally powered by a small block Buick engine, it was underpowered from the start. Passed on to the Mecom racing team, upgraded with a larger Traco Olds and driven by A. J. Foyt, it won several races when he was able to keep it on the track. It's now owned by Augie Pabst Pabst Racing and continues to be driven, hard, in vintage racing events. It still looks marvelous and goes very well indeed.
Following this debut the one-of-one built by Reventlow Automobiles, Inc. was campaigned by Mecom Racing with AJ Foyt, Walt Hansgen, and Augie Pabst Jr. as drivers.
Car had 1st at Daytona, Nassau and Bridgehampton.Races found on internet of what was know as the Meister Brau Scarab.
A J Foyt raced it at Riverside and Nassau in 1963
and at Mosport and Daytona in 1964. Not sure what year he raced at Bridgehampton.
Augie Pabst, Jr. raced it at Las Vegas in 1965.
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