Welcome to the new home of the Scripps-Booth
Register: Founded 1982 This is a free semi-annual Newsletter and
Register update, currently mailed to 50 owners and freely
available online Free copies of sales catalogs, instruction,
and parts list with Car and Engine serial number If
you have access to old State vehicle registration records
from 1914 to 1922 that list Scripps-Booth serial numbers,
please let us know The Scripps-Booth cyclecar was built in
Detroit, Michigan in 1914 only, while a luxurious light
car was built from 1915 to 1919 Chevrolet gained control of the
Scripps-Booth Corp. in 1917 General Motors made Scripps-Booth a car
division in 1918, and equipped it with a six cylinder
engine from its Northway Division GM discontinued the Scripps-Booth in April,
1922
The VCCA accepts the
following Scripps-Booth models:
Model C Roadster, 1915-17
Model G Roadster, 1917-19
Model D 4 Passenger Roadster, 1916-17
Model H 4 Passenger, 4 Door Touring, 1918.
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Marketplace:
For Sale
April/May 2020 - 1918
Scripps Booth Model G Roadster. This car was
owned by the late
Kenneth Kaufmann and has
not been run since 2014. As far as I'm aware
the car is complete.
Please contact Erik Kaufmann, 626-695-5337,
Erikjkaufmann@gmail.com
Mar. 2018 - Keith
Lawrence is interested
in selling his 1917 car, located in the United
Kingdom. It's the former Frank
Kleptz owned car which was sold to Nicholas
Bell and then Keith. The car is
described as perfect. The headlamps
and the mounting forks had been restored but
carefully wrapped; they have been fitted and
work well. The hood handles have
been re-chromed bonnet and these pieces
are wrapped and stored. Please contact
the register or Keith directly: k_a_lawrence@yahoo.com
Jan. 2018 - Joy Wagner is interested
in selling her father’s (Jack Foster) two
Scripps-Booths. Both the black 1916
Scripps-Booth grey beige 1918 Scripps-Booth
was appraised at $74,500. Both run and
are in beautiful shape. Please contact
the register or Joy directly: joywsstuff@aol.com.
Dec. 2017 - Greg Pope is interested
in selling his family’s red model C.
This is an ex-Harrah’s car. Please contact
Greg directly: burtdog09@gmail.com
Oct. 2017 - Mike Acheson is
interested in selling his mother's 1918
Roadster. It is located in
Michigan. More details will follow
soon.
If you are interested please email me and I
will get you in touch with Mike. scrippsboothregister@gmail.com
2016 and ongoing - Dag Runar
Grinaker (Norway) might have Scripps-Booth
parts for sale. His email is d.r.grinaker@gmail.com
Summer 2017 - Robert Daniello is
looking for a radiator emblem (any condition)
and 8 cylinder ignition parts. He'd also
be interested in connecting directly with
other 8 cylinder owners. Please email me
and I'll help you get in touch with Robert.scrippsboothregister@gmail.com
Summer 2017 - I am always looking
for 6 cylinder parts and 1919 car parts for my
Scripps-Booth. Please email me if you
have any or know of any.scrippsboothregister@gmail.com
Ongoing - Jim Broadley - wants V8
parts, like several rocker arms and a Zenith
dual carby. Contact us at scrippsboothregister@gmail.com
if you can help
A short
Scripps-Booth Bibliography.
If you know of other articles, please send
us details. I'm happy to share, but I
don't want to post online due to possible
copyright issues.
Bill Cuthbert,
"The Machines of James Scripps-Booth," HCCA
Horseless Carriage Gazette,
Sept-Oct 2014, pp. 26-29
"1916
Scripps-Booth Model C Roadster," Collectible
Automobile, June 2008, pp. 20-23
Jason
Weems (Ed.), James Scripps Booth: Artist,
Engineer, Polymath, 2008
Dick
Minnick and Norma Minick, "1917 Scripps-Booth," Antique
Automobile, Mar-Apr 1981, 45(2), pp. 12-17
Steve Booth,
"It's a Car! It's a Motorcycle! It's a
Bi-Autogo!," Special Interest Autos,
April 1981, pp. 24-27
"Bi-Autogo:
White Elephant Painted Red," Cars and Parts,July
1979
Sam
Medway, Automobile Quarterly, 13(3), 1975
John
Bentley, "James Scripps Booth: Artistry in
Automobile," Car Life, Sept. 1959, pp. 25,
52, 54
"Honorary
Member: James Scripps Booth," Antique
Automobile, Dec. 1952, 16(4), pp. 11-13
*early issues may have redacted
addresses because these addresses no longer
correspond to members and are associated with
deceased owners. The list of owners was removed from
this issues for that same reason.
#this is number 1A due to the March 1991 issue
beginning the numbering at #3.
This is a listing of all known
Scripps-Booths. If you are a Scripps-Booth
owner, or know the serial number of a car,
chassis, or engine,email me
at scrippsboothregister@gmail.com
The Internet Movie Car
Database now has a Scripps-Booth category.
However, it is largely
incomplete and it appears the site has removed
most of the information it had (in 2015, no
less). Scripps-Booths have been seen in
various films and TV shows. It's helpful to all of
us to both document and encourage this.
"It's a
Doozie," 60 Minutes, Nov. 11, 1979 - the
unfinished Kirby Scripps-Booth was featured for a
few minutes
The Scripps-Booth factory at
3900 Beaufait in Detroit was constructed in 1902
and is still standing. It is still in use (as of
2008) by Hamilton Steel Products. This link goes
to Ren Farley's webpage
Welcome to the new home of the Scripps-Booth
Register: Founded 1982
