Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus can only succeed if the performance of the 003 Stradale exceeds that of the competition?such is the curse of what essentially is a supercar startup. But the claimed figures are promising, and SCG founder (and father of its namesake) Jim Glickenhaus certainly isn’t known for fooling around.
After turning his Lola T70 Can-Am car into a street-legal grocery getter, Glickenhaus commissioned Pininfarina to make a Ferrari Enzo faster and prettier. Then his crew evolved that car, the Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5, into a racing car designed to be successful at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. All of which led to SCG’s in-house-developed race car, the 003 Competizione, shown below.

Like the P4/5 and the P4/5C, the 003C was designed by former Pininfarina special projects engineer Paolo Garella and handbuilt by Manifattura Automobili Torino in Italy. After competing in and completing two Nürburgring 24s and several other races, the company launched a customer racing program?and continued prepping a road-legal and race-ready version of the 003 called the Competizione Stradale, a car intended to be able to be driven to the track and converted for racing before reversing the changes and driving home again. Then that car begat the 003 Stradale, which SCG says will be the fastest ever roadgoing car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Based on its own telemetry gathered at the iconic track, SCG is predicting that the 003S will circle the ?Ring in a...