{"id":460541,"date":"2005-08-01T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=82602"},"modified":"2024-05-27T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T19:08:46","slug":"racing-the-scarab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/racing-the-scarab\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing the Scarab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late \u201950s to go racing. So he bought a BOCAR from Bob Carnes. And after winning his first race at Meadowdale, I think he decided to start a full team. Harry had heard that Lance Reventlow was selling the front-engine Scarabs, of which they built one left-hand drive version and two right-hand drive. I think the price was $17,500. So he talked the directors of the company into buying it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_700689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700689\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-700689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/LS200508-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-700689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Pabst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got a call from Harry one day asking if he could speak with Paul O\u2019Shea\u2014who was working for me at the time, in my foreign car agency\u2014because he wanted him to drive the Scarab. Paul wasn\u2019t there but I knew that he had a commitment to drive for somebody else and, while I don\u2019t know what got into me, I said, \u201cWell, I know somebody who would be happy to drive it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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