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Bodywork specialist John Lee completely refurbished the coachwork to stunning effect before Schrum became ill, forcing a sale of the car in early 2012.The Devin was then acquired by the late Bud Bourassa, a respected collector from Scottsdale, Arizona, who set out to complete the restoration.
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Dealership employee Pete Woods battled hall-of-fame racing giants like Stirling Moss, Jim Hall, Dan Gurney, Roger Penske, Jack Brabham, Bruce McLaren, Ken Miles, Walt Hansgen, George Follmer, and Augie Pabst during a 10-lap introductory qualifying race, before a seized engine prevented the car from running the main event.The Devin passed through a handful of owners over the ensuing 30 years before being purchased in March 1993 by the Phoenix-based Corvair specialist Tom Schrum, who commenced a full restoration. A few weeks later, with the supercharger removed, the Devin C was entered by its first owner (the well-known dealer Hollywood Sports Cars) at the LA Times-Mirror Grand Prix at Riverside in October 1961. The Granatellis also ran the supercharged car at various drag strips, scaring away the competition with a sports-car record 12.44-second quarter-mile run at 109.75 mph. The car was tested for the October 1961 issue of Sports Car Graphic magazine before being borrowed by Andy and Vince Granatelli for high-speed supercharger testing at the Bonneville Salt Flats, which was detailed in the January 1962 issue of SCG.
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DC1-001-2 was the first example completed, despite being the second in numerical sequence.
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According to the research of Devin C historian John Priddy, chassis no. The car featured here is a true Bill Devin-built automobile. It is important to note that while Bill Devins fame grew largely through the sale of his fiberglass bodies, which generally featured in homespun kit car applications, the cars he built in their entirety at his Southern California factory were not only of a far higher qualitythey were also far rarer. But Porsche was loathe to sell engines to a builder that was routinely beating them on the track, so Devin switched to Chevys flat-six Corvair engine, resulting in the Devin C of late 1961.
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This effort culminated in the rear-engine Devin D, which integrated components from a Volkswagen or Porsche.
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An experienced driver who sought to emulate the beautiful speed machines emerging from Europe, Devin began his production career in the mid-1950s with a successful imitation of the Dyna-Panhard before segueing to his celebrated Devin SS, a V-8 powered racer with Scaglietti-influenced coachwork.Devin achieved outstanding finish and durability in his body shells by utilizing a comparatively time-consuming fiberglass technique, although by 1959 he endeavored to develop a more inexpensive model. The first of 21 known examples built used in period by the Granatelli brothers for supercharger testing at the Bonneville Salt FlatsEstablished sports-car records at California drag strips in late 1961 raced at the 1961 Los Angeles Times-Mirror Grand Prix at Riverside against legendary driversComprehensively restored by the most recent owner from 2013 to 2017 and displayed at a Devin C reunion at the 2017 Quail Motorsports GatheringFeatured in period issues of Sports Car Graphic magazine subject of a modern feature article in Automobile magazineDocumented with period magazines, period racing photos and program copies, and numerous restoration invoices and parts receipts Postwar American motoring lore is famous for independent entrepreneurs who bucked the system while building cars that put Detroits Big Three to shame, but few of them stack up to Southern Californias Bill Devin, whose fiberglass bodied sports cars won two SCCA titles and numerous races. To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE at RM Sothebys' Arizona event, 27 January 2022.