There were just three front-engine, small-block-Chevrolet-powered Scarab sports racers built, and you’d have to be on the Forbes 400 to own one of them today (though you could buy one of the continuation cars). But here for sale on Hemmings.com might be the next best thing to an original Scarab: this 1959 Hagemann-Sutton Special. The car’s construction was said to have been started in 1959, after its patron, a racer named Wally Taylor, commissioned car builder Jack Hagemann to build him a facsimile of the Scarab. It wasn’t completed until Butch Gilbert picked up the pieces in 2005 and assembled a successful and award winning vintage race car, which looks almost as beautiful as Lance Reventlow’s original. From the seller’s description:
The Hagemann-Sutton Special is a fascinating study in 1950s sports racing cars and a wonderful example of what might have been. Its genesis was due to a man named Wally Taylor, who had successfully raced Austin-Healeys in Northern California and sought to move up to something faster. He visited Lance Reventlow’s Scarab facility in Southern California in 1958, but by that time, the organization had transitioned its focus to its Formula 1 effort and was not available to build customer cars
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