Word: stutz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tucking a Cadillac engine into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon or Stutz, and fret and burnish it to an immaculate, working shine...
...long as it would run. It lasted ten years, and after that we had another Pierce that lasted another ten years." Briggs got his own first car, a Dodge, at 16, graduated to Auburns and Packards at a time when some of his racier friends were racketing around in Stutz Bearcats and Mercer Raceabouts...
...Hard-driving Johnny Fitch comes naturally by his love of sports cars. His father was a pioneer builder of horseless carriages in Indiana; his stepfather was president of the Stutz Co., builders of the famed Bearcat. After wartime service as a fighter pilot (a career cut short by an emergency bail-out into Nazi hands), Johnny took up high-speed road racing in earnest...
...American Underslung, so named because its frame was hung from beneath its axles, making the all-aluminum body not much higher than the huge (41½ in.) wheels. Designed by Harry C. Stutz, whose later Bearcat was the sportiest roadster of the '20s, the four-cylinder Underslung cost about...
Museum judges shuffled through photographs of some 35 years of automaking, from early Bugattis and Stutz Bearcats to a 1951 Ford. Eliminating limousines and custom-built cars, they finally chose five European and three U.S. models for display. Then Curator Arthur Drexler wrote a learned catalogue discussing their "excellence as works...