James Glickenhaus is America's Ferruccio Lamborghini. The wealthy businessman with an affinity for Ferraris famously purchased the Ferrari Enzo–based P4/5 by Pininfarina[1], a skunkworks project that was started without Ferrari approval. Although the brass at Maranello eventually gave the one-off supercar their blessing, the company refused to acknowledge the lineage of Glickenhaus's similarly styled P4/5 Competizione race car that relied on Ferrari 430 Scuderia[2] and F430 GT2 bones. Undeterred, James Glickenhaus took the car racing, and he entered the P4/5 Competizione in both the 2011 and 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours races, securing a respectable 12th-place overall finish in the latter event.
Three years later, Glickenhaus unveiled his personal Miura: the 003C[3]. Unlike Lamborghini, though, Glickenhaus planned to take his supercar racing from the start, unleashing the 003C at the 2015 Nürburgring 24 Hours race. There the car shared the road with 151 other entrants, scoring a 35th-place finish.
Today, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus is preparing to release the SCG 003 S dedicated road car—the S stands for stradale, or roadgoing—at the 2017 Geneva auto show. SCG showed off the dual-purpose 003 CS (for Competizione Stradale) at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering[4] in Pebble Beach this year. Unlike the 003 CS, which keeps the race car's aero equipment and other assorted race-required features, the 003 S sports a cleaner exterior and a complete interior.
While the 003 C racer relies on a Honda Daytona Prototype–derived 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 for motivation, the 003 S is powered by a 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 that reportedly[5] will produce more than 750 horsepower. (As for the dual-nature 003 CS, our colleagues at Road & Track[6] note that the model is designed to have both engines swapped in and out depending on the owner's use of the car.) A seven-speed automated manual gearbox sends the V-8 engine's power to the rear wheels; a claimed sub-3000-pound curb weight should ensure that the 003 S is properly quick.
James Glickenhaus[7] said he is in talks with "several groups" to raise the money needed to homologate the car worldwide. Meanwhile, he said, in the United States, the SCG 003 S "has to be built under the home-built/custom laws of state DMVs" as he did for the CS mule, which has been issued a New York State VIN and is now undergoing wet-weather testing. Elsewhere in the world, Glickenhaus said, the S "will be sold turnkey under small-vehicle manufactur[ing] exemptions." He added that both CS and S "meet all required safety and emissions requirements" and can be made road legal.
Glickenhaus has not yet issued pricing information, but expect the finished product to wear a price befitting its nature as a street car born from a competition car. In other words, if you're serious about getting your hands on a 003 S, prepare to write Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus a seven-figure check.
References
- ^ Ferrari Enzo–based P4/5 by Pininfarina (www.caranddriver.com)
- ^ Ferrari 430 Scuderia (www.caranddriver.com)
- ^ the 003C (blog.caranddriver.com)
- ^ The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering (blog.caranddriver.com)
- ^ reportedly (www.roadandtrack.com)
- ^ Road & Track (www.roadandtrack.com)
- ^ James Glickenhaus (www.caranddriver.com)
