Scarab Race Car For Sale. 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. 5004 hadley overland park ks 66203.
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Kitzmiller s company scarab motorsports has constructed several iterations of scarab continuations with the pinnacle being the meister scarab as seen for sale here at fantasy junction. 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. 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.
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Estimate 175 000 225 000 beautifully built to 1958 specifications by scarab motorsports. 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. Reventlow just 22 years old at the time the son of woolworth heiress barbara hutton had travelled to europe with kessler with the idea to buy a sports racing car to campaign in the u s a. 1958 scarab reproduction 175 000 to be offered at auction without reserve at rm sothebys the elkhart collection event 23 24 october 2020.
