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...pair of hot new Porsches. But from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark was not there, but Gurney was-in a bright red Lotus 19 with a 375-h.p. Ford Fairlane engine. Foyt's car was an older, rear-engined Scarab (formerly owned by Millionaire Playboy Lance Reventlow), outfitted with a 430-h.p. Chevrolet power plant. "Horsepower," Foyt grunted...
...feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer and Cadillac hearse (for toting around skis and surfboards) that Lance quarters in the garage back of their $250,000 Beverly Hills, Calif, honeymoon cottage...
...daring gamble, he hired four experts, put them to work in Los Angeles. Using a special fuel-injection system, they developed 361 h.p. in a big (5.5 liters) Chevrolet engine. Double-size drum brakes were another innovation. The result was the Scarab-a low, shovel-nosed racer that quickly won its spurs by outrunning the long-dominant Ferraris, Maseratis and Jaguars produced in Europe...
...scarab of Egypt (Atauchus sacer), for example, Fabre discovered, possesses the instinctive gift of making a perfect sphere of dung for its food and a perfect pear for its larva, even as the bee is born with the gift of making a hexagonal prism...
Inside the sarcophagus lay Unjebanen-jebet's almost disintegrated mummy, swathed in golden chains. A golden mask covered his face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...