With only nine examples of the Stout Scarab ever built and even fewer surviving today, you probably won’t ever get to see one.
And that’s a shame because it’s not only interestingly designed and styled, but it also features an efficient streamlined shape and seats whose layout you can change.
However, there is one place where you’ll always be able to see the Scarab and that’s at the Detroit Historical Museum. The institution recently recovered a 1935 Scarab from the Maine museum, where it resided for the past 12 years.
It was on loan there, but according to Adam Lovell, curator of collections for the Detroit Historical Society, “they had had it for long enough.”
He puts it into context for future visitors of the museum, putting it simply as it being “the precursor, or the forerunner, of the minivan, 50 years before its time,” according to The Detroit Free Press.
Check out the video about it posted below.