James Glickenhaus founded Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus in 2004 with the aim of developing low-volume, high-performance cars for competition at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. The company name combines the surnames of James Glickenhaus and his wife, Meg Cameron. In 2005, Pininfarina approached Glickenhaus about commissioning a one-off car, and he arranged for his personal Ferrari P4 and a newly acquired Ferrari Enzo to be sent to Pininfarina in Turin. The resulting car, costing US$4 million to develop, was revealed at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2006 as the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina.
In 2011, Glickenhaus revealed the P4/5 Competizione, a race-specification derivative using a Ferrari 430 Scuderia chassis built to GT2 regulations. The P4/5 Competizione was entered at the Nürburgring 24 Hours and served as the direct conceptual ancestor of all subsequent SCG road and race cars.
The first ground-up proprietary SCG sports car was the SCG 003, initially presented in concept form in September 2012, with pre-production prototypes completing testing by December 2014. The SCG 003 and its racing derivative, the SCG 003C, were produced at the Italian facility of Manifattura Automobili Torino in Turin. A second road car, the SCG 004, was announced in 2017 and entered production in 2020. Glickenhaus also produced the SCG Boot, a high-performance off-road vehicle styled after Steve McQueen's 1967 Baja Boot, unveiled at the end of 2020. A kit car variant, the SCG 008, was also developed. The race program extended to the SCG 004C competition variant and the dedicated SCG 007 LMH Le Mans Hypercar.
Glickenhaus entered the Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) category in 2021 with the SCG 007 LMH, making the company the first American manufacturer to compete in the category. The LMH ruleset, developed jointly by the FIA and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, replaced the former LMP1 class and ran parallel to IMSA's competing LMDh formula. Competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as an independent works manufacturer — without the resources of an established automotive giant — Glickenhaus drew considerable attention in motorsport circles for the ambition of the project.
At the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans, the SCG 007 LMH scored an overall podium finish, becoming the first American sports car to achieve a Le Mans overall podium in 53 years, since the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus occupies an unusual position in motorsport: an independent American manufacturer that designed, built, and raced its own Hypercar at Le Mans in an era when the category was otherwise populated by major factory programs from Toyota, Ferrari, Peugeot, and Porsche. The 2022 Le Mans podium, achieved with limited resources relative to its factory competitors, stands as the team's defining achievement and a landmark result for American manufacturers in the premier class of endurance racing.