Name that scooter!

[Kevlarr]

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????

 

[bairdco]

looks like it says "scootmobile" on the side.

maybe a Cushman?

 

[Bikeguy Joe]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Bikeguy Joe]

Geeze deacon, I forgot all about that!
Yeah, maybe the "scootmobile" was the builders name?

 

[deacon]

well it sure looked like that/

 

[Bikeguy Joe]

It sure did. It could well be a 'homebuilt".

 

[Kevlarr]

Well thanks bairdco for your good eyes, it is a Scootmobile sold through Spiegel's!

 

[motorbiker]

Scoot-Mobile

 

[deacon]

thats good to know now I wont stay awake tonight trying to remember.

 

[Kevlarr]

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

 

[2door]

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

 

[2door]

Scoot-Mobile

Put wings on it and you'd have a Piper Tri-Pacer...
Tom