1916 Scripps-Booth in Collectible Automobile
Sunday-May 18, 2008
I keep coming back to the June 2008 issue of Collectible Automobile, because there are a lot of great orphans in this issue.
I always thought that CA confined itself to post-WWII cars, but I may have to change my thinking about this magazine. (I suspect it's because the content in their chosen field is finite. There are only so many old car stories out there.)
When you turn a few chapters farther back in history, you find some really interesting stuff. The Photo Feature of the 1916 Scripps-Booth Model C Roadster is a good example. Before this company was gobbled up by GM, they produced some cool Brass Era buggies. The Model C, pictured here on another web site, was a "luxurious light car" with a floor that was lower than the chassis rails. The Model C pioneered this concept 32 years before (and several hundred pounds lighter than) the Stepdown Hudsons of 1948.
They made 6,000 of these from 1915 to 1916 before William Durant bought the company in 1917.
There is a jump seat just ahead of the passenger seat. It looks like a padded toilet seat. Maybe it was a "safety feature" like the padded dashes of Kaiser-Frazers in the 1950s.
I always thought that CA confined itself to post-WWII cars, but I may have to change my thinking about this magazine. (I suspect it's because the content in their chosen field is finite. There are only so many old car stories out there.)
When you turn a few chapters farther back in history, you find some really interesting stuff. The Photo Feature of the 1916 Scripps-Booth Model C Roadster is a good example. Before this company was gobbled up by GM, they produced some cool Brass Era buggies. The Model C, pictured here on another web site, was a "luxurious light car" with a floor that was lower than the chassis rails. The Model C pioneered this concept 32 years before (and several hundred pounds lighter than) the Stepdown Hudsons of 1948.
They made 6,000 of these from 1915 to 1916 before William Durant bought the company in 1917.
There is a jump seat just ahead of the passenger seat. It looks like a padded toilet seat. Maybe it was a "safety feature" like the padded dashes of Kaiser-Frazers in the 1950s.