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1. www.classicandsportscar.com › features › allThe all-American hero: driving Lance Reventlow’s Scarab ...

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   Mar 24, 2022 · The ambitious Lance Reventlow sits in the first Scarab roadster during tests at Willow Springs. The era of the front-engined ‘big-banger’ sports-racer in World Championship events reached its peak in November 1957 at Caracas, but these spectacular machines – the Ferrari 335 and Maserati 450S, together with a pack of home-brewed specials – raced on in America the following season ...

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3. collectorscarworld.com › lance-reventlow-scarabThe Story Of Lance Reventlow And His Legendary Scarab

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   Jul 19, 2023 · Scarab Sports Car Mk II Chassis Number 004 (Replica) This copycat was built 1985 by Frank Troutman for Richard Reventlow, Lance’s half brother. He sold this car later to tire-executive Ron Kellogg. Hagemann Sutton – Scarab Sports Car Chassis Number 01/1959. This is a fascinating one-off and its genesis was due to a man named Wally Taylor.

4. www.hagerty.com › media › automotive-historyHow the Woolworth heir built Scarab and beat Ferrari - Hagerty

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   Sep 12, 2022 · Like all works of art, no two Scarabs are exactly alike. But each car tells the same story, and that’s the fairy-tale life of Lance Reventlow. The 1958 Scarab sports racer, serial no. 003, is part of the Miles Collier Collection at the Revs Institute. Peter Harholdt. Road racing was like the Wild West during the formative years after World ...

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lance_ReventlowLance Reventlow - Wikipedia

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   Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, [1] (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a British-born American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child of heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband, Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. His stepfathers included actor Cary Grant and ...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Scarab_(constructor)Scarab (constructor) - Wikipedia

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   Scarab (constructor) Scarab was an all-American sports car and open-wheel race car constructor from the United States featuring cars designed and built by Tom Barnes and Dick Troutman for Reventlow Automobiles Inc, owned by Lance Reventlow. The Chevrolet 283 CI V-8 engines were built by Traco Engineering (Jim Travers and Frank Coon, nicknamed ...

7. museum.revsinstitute.org › the-collection › 19581958 Scarab Sports-Racer - Revs Institute

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   About the 1958 Scarab Sports-Racer. Of the eight Scarab racers built, brain-children of 22-year-old Lance Reventlow − whose father was a European count, whose mother was heiress to the Woolworth fortune, and whose wife at the time was actress Jill St. John − four were astounding successes and four were spectacular failures.

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   Did Reventlow keep a scarab?

   • The front-engine sports cars won tons of races in Nickey Nouse and Meister Bräuser liveries, and A.J. Foyt and Walt Hansgen scored victories in the rear-engine car that Reventlow had abandoned at Nassau. Reventlow kept only one Scarab—the original prototype, which Balcaen painstakingly converted into a street car.

   How the Woolworth heir built Scarab and beat Ferrari

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   How many scarabs did Reventlow build?

   • Reventlow's organization constructed a total of eight Scarabs during its existence. In a 1971 interview, Reventlow confirmed that three front-engined Chevy-powered sports cars, three front-engined formula cars, one rear-engined formula car and one rear-engined sports car were built.

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   Who is Lance Reventlow?

   • Lance Reventlow, an American entrepreneur and racecar driver, is best known for his legendary Scarab racecar. Born on February 24, 1936, in London, England, Reventlow was the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton and Danish nobleman Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow.

   The Story Of Lance Reventlow And His Legendary Scarab

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   Who made Scarab cars?

   • Scarab was an all-American sports car and open-wheel race car constructor from the United States featuring cars designed and built by Tom Barnes and Dick Troutman for Reventlow Automobiles Inc, owned by Lance Reventlow. The Chevrolet 283 CI V-8 engines were built by Traco Engineering (Jim Travers and Frank Coon, nicknamed "The Whiz Kids").

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9. www.speedsport.com › other-series › racing-historyMoney, Lance Reventlow & The Scarab - SPEED SPORT

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   Oct 5, 2020 · The Scarabs were immediately successful in the hands of Reventlow and his driver, Chuck Daigh. The Scarab became the first U.S.-built sports car to beat Europe’s best when Daigh won the 1958 United States Grand Prix at Riverside (Calif.) Int’l Raceway. That victory inspired Reventlow to pursue his passion to a loftier level — to build the ...