Track Tested: Sebeco SPX
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One ACF reader has already compared it to the unlovely Mosler Consulier, but let’s be honest with ourselves: next to the Sebeco SPX, the Consulier has 250 GTO levels of beauty. The proportions are odd, runtish, disturbing. The shape itself pays open tribute to that most despised era of sports-car racing in America, namely the “pumpkin seed” Daytona Prototype as foisted on a reluctant public by Doran, Fabcar, Riley, Crawford, and other names deservedly all but lost to history. I’ve never driven a race car uglier than the Sebeco, and I used to race a Plymouth Neon. The phrase “if it looks right, it flies right” comes to mind, and the SPX is on the planet furthest from “looks right”.
Ah, but looks aren’t everything. Beneath the awkward, much-revised skin of Sebeco’s $159,900 flagship lies the heart and soul of a great race car.
The first take on this car, the Elan-built NASA NP-01, was a good idea executed indifferently. When Sebeco took over from Elan and revised it into the NP-01 Evo, it went a long way towards redeeming the mini-pumpkin-seed’s reputation. The SPX will burnish that to a mirror polish. It’s fast, but more importantly than that, it’s pure.
Laymen and casual club-race ignorers will likely be satisfied with the general-terms review I wrote on the SPX for the Washington Examiner. It has everything the normies need to know.
The rest of you — the regional champions, the weekend warriors, the willfully tire-impoverished — will want to hear The Rest Of The Story. No worries. I’m here to deliver.