Meet the SCG003, a $2.6 million American supercar that's racing back to the future

New York car collector Jim Glickenhaus loved the days when racers would drive their race cars to the track, compete for victory and then drive them home in time for supper. Those days, of course, are long gone, but they don't have to be — not if Glickenhaus' plans to become the 21st century's version of Enzo Ferrari hold true.

This is the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 003. It's a modular supercar, where key components like the engine and suspension can be interchanged easily so the car could compete in, say, the Nurburgring 24 Hours, and then drive home the next afternoon. In fact, Jim Glickenhaus plans to do just that later this year, just as bespoke race car builders like Ferrari and Briggs Cunningham did in the '50s and '60s.

Visually, there's lots of Ferrari Enzo in the design. That's not surprising, as Glickenhaus was responsible for bringing the wild Enzo-based Ferrari P4/5 to market. Glickenhaus told Yahoo Autos a short while back that he envisaged a world where many of the top racing series competed using the same vehicle platform, making it technically possible for a car to compete in NASCAR, German touring racing and Le Mans GT events -- and at low cost, since the cars would share the same fundamental architechture and rules.

That world seems as far away from reality as Doc's Delorean and Marty's self-drying jacket, but according to Glickenhaus, the desire for a movement such as this stretches far beyond just his wishes.