Technical In-Car Footage: Scarab

Here is further info about how the Scarab video came to be, as posted by RA Historian on the Autosport.com Nostalgia Forum:

QUOTE (Cris @ Dec 23 2012, 21:27)
"This footage is from a five-lap match race held over Labor Day at CDR in 1960. Harry Heuer is driving the Meister Bräuser (formerly Scarab 002) against Bob Carnes in the Bocar XP-6 (the Chevy engine has a blower on it, hence the red car getting the hole shot over the normally aspirated Scarab/Meister Bräuser.)"
Quite right. The event was Labor Day, 1960, and was an SCCA Regional. The only reason the two Meister Brauser Scarabs trucked 1000 miles to this non-points race was to settle a grudge. Bob Carnes, who built the Bocars, had made the statement that his car could beat the Scarabs. Harry Heuer, owner of the Meister Brauser Team, called him on it. They ran this match race, just the two of them, and Heuer won. Later, Pabst and Heuer ran one-two in the feature race.

The footage is from a much longer promotional film by the Peter Hand Brewing Co spotlighting their Meister Brauser Team.

Tom (RA Historian)

 

The red car is the only Bocar Stiletto, a roots supercharged Chevy road racing special from Denver. Builder was Bob Carnes from whom the car name was derived. The two original Scarabs had opposite driving positions, so this one is Augie Pabst's. The third Scarab was Offy powered back then and right hand drive. It was the one crashed at Laguna Seca in 2010, but the other two are in fine fettle and trackable. The surprise is how long the Bocar held off the Scarab, a much more successful race car. Actually the most successful in the USA from 1958 thru about 1961. The driving got better once the tires got warm, and one sweeper was phenomenally well driven. Tire squeal was unreal back in the days of Firestone 170 bias ply race tires, which I still have a pair of. AREOPAGITICA. Visit my FB page "Looking Back Racing" for more on these cars!

 

Not reversed! Two mirror image cars of the three front engined road race Scarabs made.

 

Yes, Goodwood. There seems to be a built in problem called "Madgwick" that collects a lot of the cars that get crossed up in the kitty litter. Madgwicked, or Sticky Madgwicket they should call it.