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[Thundersports]

I remember at a Brands Interserie race Del Bennet had a nice looking car called a "Scorpion" which ran a 6L Chevy engine I think. Does anyone have info or pics on this car, I wondered whether it was based on a Harrier?

Edited by Thundersport, 05 February 2011 - 21:03.

[RA Historian]

Buck Fulp had a rear engine sports racer built in the mid sixties that was called a Scorpion. See

http://forums.autosp...mp;hl=buck fulp

Same car?

Tom

[fausto]

I remember at a Brands Interserie race Del Bennet had a nice looking car called a "Scorpion" which ran a 6L Chevy engine I think. Does anyone have info or pics on this car, I wondered whether it was based on a Harrier?

Yes, it possibly was, very similar, at least for the bodywork...remember it advertised for sale on Autosport, mid-to-late nineties

[Kevan]

Certainly has the Harrier look to it.
http://www.racingspo...2-08-09-016.jpg

Looking further into the pics on RSC, it appears to be the same car raced by John Bartlett as a Harrier LR7
http://www.racingspo...to/LR7-001.html

Edited by Kevan, 06 February 2011 - 12:59.

[Thundersports]

Thanks chaps wonder why the Harrier got called a Scorpion?

[JockinSA]

I remember at a Brands Interserie race Del Bennet had a nice looking car called a "Scorpion" which ran a 6L Chevy engine I think. Does anyone have info or pics on this car, I wondered whether it was based on a Harrier?

I might be way off base here, but didn't this car use a Bonner V6 engine? This thing was a derivation IIR of the Cosworth GA motor that was reengineered with a new block configuration. It was also to be licensed as an aircraft engine as well I think.

[Thundersports]

Jock that rings a bell but not with that car however I can't remember which car it was!

[fausto]

I might be way off base here, but didn't this car use a Bonner V6 engine? This thing was a derivation IIR of the Cosworth GA motor that was reengineered with a new block configuration. It was also to be licensed as an aircraft engine as well I think.

Don't remember about it, for sure ADA tested and, possibly, raced (BRDC C2 Championship) a car with that engine...

[Kevan]

Yes, ADA ran the Bonner V6 in the first couple of BRDC C2 rounds in 1990, before switching back to a DFL

http://www.racingspo...0-04-08-005.jpg

[JockinSA]

Yes, ADA ran the Bonner V6 in the first couple of BRDC C2 rounds in 1990, before switching back to a DFL

http://www.racingspo...0-04-08-005.jpg

Thanks. That sounds right in retrospect. What ever did happen to that engine? I heard it once and it sounded pretty good. Like a GA but with more bass!?

[vekspeed]

Found a couple photos from my collection, taken in the pitlane at Brands for the 1992 Interserie meeting.