1957 Devin SS

Bill Devin was the proprietor of Devin Motors in Los Angeles and a leading designer of kit cars, creating fiberglass body kits for production chassis. The Devin SS was built for competition in the SCCA C-Modified big-bore class and wore a one-piece, hand-laid fiberglass body with fixed cockpit sides and integrated seats. The mold was sourced from an aluminum-bodied Scaglietti-designed single-seater Ferrari that was modified as a two-seater sports car. Its size was built to accommodate a 92-inch chassis, and many were equipped with a small-block Chevrolet engine, a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed manual gearbox, and disc brakes. Utilizing the 'hot rod' technology and ingenuity of the era, modifications included a high lift camshaft and three Rochester carburetors.

To homologate the car for racing, SCCA required at least 100 examples to be built. Although Devin hoped to achieve this goal, roughly 15 to 20 examples were built on a tube chassis sourced from engineer Malcolm MacGregor of Northern Ireland.

by Daniel Vaughan | Aug 2021