Stout Scarab

Stout Motor Car Company
IndustryAutomotive
PredecessorStout Engineering Laboratories
Founded1936; 88 years ago (1936)
FounderWilliam B. Stout
Defunct1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Fateceased production
HeadquartersDetroit, Michigan,
United States
Key people
William B. Stout, John Tjaarda
ProductsAutomobiles
Production output
9 plus 1 concept car (1932-1946)
Stout Scarab on display in Genoa, Italy
Stout Scarab on display at Houston Fine Arts Museum
1935 Scarab at Owls Head Transportation Museum (Owls Head, Maine)

The Stout Scarab is a streamlined 1930–1940s American car, designed by William Bushnell Stout and manufactured by Stout Engineering Laboratories and later by Stout Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan.[1][2]

The Stout Scarab is credited by some as the world's first production minivan,[3] and a 1946 experimental prototype of the Scarab became the world's first car with a fiberglass bodyshell and air suspension.

  1. ^ Kimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Jr., Henry Austin (1996). Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9.
  2. ^ Richardson Bryan, Ford (1993). Henry's Lieutenants. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814324288.
  3. ^ "Blast From The Past: 1936 Stout Scarab". Indiacar.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2011-08-09.