A roadster with a powerful American V8 heart, supercharger and a fighting weight of just over 1000 kg sounds like the ideal driving machine. Frank M. Rinderknecht presented the Rinspeed SC-R in 1995 and made sports car fans dream. If only there hadn't been the price tag of over DM 100,000. In the 1990s, few people knew that the roadster was already the third evolutionary stage of a car that was originally created in Ireland. This report describes the complicated history of the Rinspeed SC-R and shows it and its predecessors in many historical pictures, most of which have never been published before.