The Stout Scarab In Numbers. Engine. Ford flat-head V8. Transmission. Three-speed manual. Horsepower. 85 hp. 0-60. 15 seconds. Top Speed ~80 mph. A Living Room On Wheels: The Scarab's Interior ...

The three-speed manual transmission (built by Stout) sat ahead of the engine and improved acceleration. Given that the bloated Scarab was 195.5 inches (over 16 feet) long, the reported 0-60 mph in ...

Mercedes-Benz was developing their 130H and 170H cars, Tatra was making their big, elegant V8 rear-engine cars, there was the Stout Scarab, and so on. In America, ...

Dick Taylor doesn't drive his 1936 Stout Scarab around Lumberton much. But it's hard to miss when he does. The eccentric and visionary Stout Scarab -- with its short, stubby nose and streamlined ...

The Stout Scarab was ahead of its time by some four decades, laying out the blueprint for today’s minivans and rear-engined passenger vehicles. It was also a thing of beauty.

The Stout Scarab is the brainchild of automotive and aviation engineer William Bushnell Stout, who thought he could sell as many as 100 examples of it per year. ... thanks to its rear-engine, ...

Dick Taylor doesn't drive his 1936 Stout Scarab around Lumberton much. ... "It was one of the first vehicles made for the public with four-wheel independent suspension, rear-engine drive.

Stout sold out to the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1942,entertaining high hopes that his Scarab MPV would have its finest hour after the war. However, although he completed a glass fibre ...

INDIANAPOLIS — One of my favorite cars is the Moderne-style 1936 Stout Scarab – a rear-engine aluminum forerunner to the mini-van that was aimed at Hollywood’s elite as a more fashion-forward ...