Topic: Solved - NEH 1597: Stout Scarab I by Bill Stout - 1932

[Carnut]

What's this, by whom, from when?  For 1 point...

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[Carnut]

Will the Home page coverage help any Rookie to solve this one?

[Carnut]

Will the Home page coverage help any Rookie to solve this one?

All right then - over to the Experts.

[72Must]

Bill Stout's first series Scarab ,rear mounted Ford flathead V8 ?

[Carnut]

Bill Stout's first series Scarab ,rear mounted Ford flathead V8 ?

That's what I have too, but it looks more modern than the better-known Stouts to me.
However, it dates from the late '30s so may well be his first.

[Wendax]

I have the first Stout Scarab as being from 1932

[Carnut]

I have the first Stout Scarab as being from 1932

Here's a rear view, gleaned incidentally from:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5331.200

Seems this one is from 1935?

[Wendax]

Here's an article from June 1935, so it is probably the date when the car was shown in public:

[grobmotorix]

Heres an austrian February 1935 magazine clipping:

[Otto Puzzell]

Here is an illustration from 1932, which looks akin to the puzzle pic, leading me to believe this puzzle should reflect that year ('32), as well.

Second pic is a period photo of a '35 Stout Scarab. 

[grobmotorix]