Another Scarab Photo! -- Lance Reventlow at Riverside, 1958
 
This photo copied from the "Car Movie Database" website.  It was hard to find over there so your webmaster "lifted" it for use here (contrary to his usually high ethical standards).

Historian Ron Cummings remembers this moment:

"I was standing right in the path of the Scarab, on the spectator side of the fence for this one. It was at the second race weekend at Riverside.  The SCCA ran their event about a month after the CalClub, in the fall of 1957. 

As I remember it, Reventlow pulled out a lead of the entire straight between Turns Six and Seven during the first lap!  On the second lap going into Turn Seven a half-shaft broke sending the car into a terrific slide.  When the car stopped all was well.  Bob Oker's underpowered Aston-Martin DBR2 took over first and never gave it up."

  
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