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(first posted 5/26/2012) Bill Stout’s rear-engined aerodynamic Scarab “mini-vans” were brilliant, and way ahead of the times(and too expensive) for the mid-thirties. But Nash decided all the Scarab really needed was a long hood and conventional front engine to be good enough for 1949. Not so, as it turned out.
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