Glickenhaus' SCGs

did he say: the glickman?

 

He did get to race Ferrari in LM 2023, and watching the 499P lap the 007 several times was sort of a "welcome to the big leagues, we did it on our first try after coming back, now shut your mouth" moment. I admire what JG did, but his attitude, big mouth, and lack of accountability ruined everything.

His first (and only IIRC) N24 win was against no competition, he was so full of it. Sore loser, obnoxious winner.

 

It was a win in XPS class
And yes no competition
And once he had maybe one other car in that XPS class

never understood why Glickenhaus wanted to race with the big boys Mercedes Audi and BMW and not be in their GT3 class……..ooooo wait he never built the numbers that was needed lol

 

Mistake was going racing. Period. Should have stuck w rebodied coach built Ferraris for street

 

I think his mistake was having a personal "vendetta" with Ferrari and getting on a high-horse with the P4/5. You could say he brought back coachbuilding, which before P4/5 had been gone for decades, and he did it with an amazing execution.

Sadly, something happened among him, Pininfarina, and Ferrari which derailed his whole goal into proving that he was better than Ferrari. That he, unlike Ferrari, could make a car you could drive to La Sarthe, win Le Mans, and drive it back home like a 100 years ago. He never did. His ego and pride cost him big.

He was constantly taunting Ferrari, "I have the fastest Ferrari powered car around the NR" (which was a carefully phrased lie), "I have won a race no other Ferrari powered car has won", "Ferrari are afraid of going back to LM", "I will win LM before Ferrari does again" etc, etc.

Additionally, his feud with Ferrari had more fire in the pit with the whole 0846 drama.

The biggest current issue that I see is that his cars are now old, and what may have been seen as interesting and new when he announced them, now it has lost all momentum. He was beaten by Gordon Murray to create a 3 seater driver's car; name-wise and tech-wise he will never be able to compete with GM and with an NA V12 from Cosworth.

There are plenty of $2.5 million cars that are more desirable than his offerings.

To top it off, the DeTomaso P72 and Ferrari SP3 have done an amazing job in bringing back the 60's P cars to modern times.

 

Is the Duesenberg still with him?

 

It was going to be sold at auction, I think at Pebble.

 

Do you have an axe to grind with Jim? For YEARS now you have been ragging on SCG.

Curious what your deal is.

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/detomaso-p72.603088/#post-146701229

 

Do I owe you mr No Name an explanation?
The answer is: NO
No need to reply: you are blocked.

 

Did they post anything that isn’t factual? The only race accolades are ones where they were the only competitor. They’ve never raced a full season in any race series.

None of the “many” 003 orders claimed were real, and in the time they’ve been working on 004 and the Boot, GMA was founded, a car was announced, and deliveries have started.

I wish them success, and they have done some cool things especially with the Hypercar, but as a company it’s smoke and mirrors until real deliveries occur.



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