Where the regular Boot is a rough and ready desert bruiser, the mini Boot appears to take some design cues from SCG’s supercar department, placing a body that looks a lot like a ruggedized SCG 004 three-seat road racer on top of a Baja-ready chassis. Now, the company has announced it’s planning a miniaturized version of the Boot for backyard spannerheads: a SCG 008 “Mini Boot,” if you like, to be sold in kit car form.
But the Baja victory was no joke, and the day after the win, SCG sold half of its 2020 manufacturing capacity of Boots (which start at US$250k) in a single day. The remainder looks like it might end up being yet another Covid casualty now is no time for dashing intercontinental Boot adventures.
Step one of this plan went smashingly the SCG boot won the Class 2 category at the Baja 1000 in a year when only half the field even finished. The plan: take this 450-horse V8 SCG Boot monster down to race the Baja 1000, then take it on an insane tour of the planet’s toughest driving challenges in 2020, attempting a new altitude record in the Andes, the Trans-Siberian Highway, the Road of Bones and a 53-mile crossing of the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska using an amphibious setup and a pair of outboard motors. Two years ago, American supercar manufacturer Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus announced it was building something wildly different to its regular brand of Nurburgring-slaying road race cars: the SGC Boot, a brick house of an off-road racer styled after the Baja Boot once raced by Steve McQueen.
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