Name that scooter!

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Kevlarr

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Was going through a DVD of old family pictures (copied from slides no less) and ran across this one of my oldest brother on some kind of scooter. He looks to be about 12 or 13 so I'm guessing it was taken around '62 or '63.

Anyone know what the scooter is????
 

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Bikeguy Joe

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Does look like the type of fork Cushman used on some of their scooters, but I never heard of a scootmobile. Maybe re-badged? Does the name scootmobile ring a bell?
 

Mac

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Gotta be prewar, late 30's early 40's, I speculate there were few made during WWII that survived, no hard facts there, just a guess, quite a bit before my time.
Mac
 

deacon

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Joe send me a popular mechanics that had a set of directions to build a scooter that looked a lot like that one. The suggestion was that defense worker build it and ride to the plant to work to save gasoline.
 

Kevlarr

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Saw that but didn't read it motorbiker, cool thing is Corrunna is only about 30mi from here.
 

2door

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I knew it wasn't a "DoodleBug...I had one when I was 9...Looked like a small Cushman Eagle. Even had a tank that was very similar to the peanuts we're all familar with today.
Tom