Scarab (constructor)

Scarab roadster #16 (left-hand drive) at the 2005 Historic races at Laguna Seca Raceway

Scarab was an 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").[1]

The Scarab badge
  1. ^ Young, Anthony (1983). "Of Dreams & Dollars: the Short Life of the Scarab". Automobile Quarterly. Vol. 21, no. 3. pp. 306–323.