ARC was a French sports-racing car manufacturer run by the engineer Michel Faure, based in Portets, near Bordeaux. As a teenager Faure built a single-seat, mid-engined road car following racing-car principles, called the Narval, which set the pattern for the sports-racing cars ARC built afterward. Designed in 1965, the Narval was a single-seater measuring 3,500mm long, 1,580mm wide and 810mm tall on a 1,900mm wheelbase, powered by a rear-mid-mounted, factory-tuned…