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 Muntz Car Company
The Muntz Car Company was created in Glendale, California in the early 1950s by Madman Muntz, a well known local used car dealer and electronics retailer.
He was assisted by Frank Kurtis, who had earlier attempted to produce a sports car under the Kurtis marque, and the Muntz design was influenced by its predecessor.
Muntz produced only one model, the Jet, which was a full-size coupe.
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 Madman Muntz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl "Madman" Muntz (1917 – 1987) was a legendary merchandiser of used cars and consumer electronics in the 1940s and 50s, mostly in California.
He later founded the Muntz Car Company which made the Muntz Jet, a sports car with jet-like contours.
Although Muntz pretended to be a madman, he was actually a shrewd businessman and built up a large fortune selling everything from autos to radios.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madman_Muntz   (304 words)

  
 1954 Kurtis Cad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The car is shown in these pictures after most of the damage has been repaired and the car driven from Manhattan to Winfield at Thanksgiving with no windshield, with snow on the ground, in freezing temperatures.
By some miracle we bot survived uninjured.The car was in surprisingly good condition considering we had flipped over and landed upside down.When we went over I just took the steering wheel and pushed up until I was down by the floor pedals.
After Muntz went broke, Kurtis got some of the assets of the Muntz company to settle the debt.
www.ausbcomp.com /~bbott/whviking/vikecars/kurtis.htm   (577 words)

  
 MUNTZ JET
Muntz was a hell of an inventor, and his true interests were with anything that had to do with electronics...hence the Muntz T.V. In the late 40's Muntz designed a set that was much simpler than his competitors.
Muntz, Kurtis and race car driver Sam Hanks put their heads together to redesign the car to give it a broader base of appeal to the buying public.
Survivors of the company say that, "The seat belts were strictly a gimmick, since if you were going to name a car a jet, you better have seat belts." Muntz had a few innovations of his own.
www.americansportscars.com /muntz.html   (1303 words)

  
 The Muntz Car Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The car was well received in showrooms across southern California and signups with deposits were large enough to satisfy a start of production.
Wheelbase was 116", length 181", width 38", height 54", and the car weighed in at 3300 pounds.
The first 28 cars were powered by a 331 cid Cadillac V8 and were made of aluminum, with a 113 inch wheelbase.
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 Classic American Car • The Muntz Jet
The Muntz Jet-"the first serious attempt in nearly a generation to manufacture an American sport car capable of measuring up to the top-flight European jobs"- wrote the Sport Cars and Hot Rods book in 1950 published by Fawcett Publications."Back of the venture is Earl ("Madman") Muntz, former Kaiser-Frazer distributor and present television tycoon...
Father of the Muntz was the Kurtis Kraft, originally designed by Frank Kurtis, leading U.S. builder of Indianapolis and dirt track cars.
Finish is high quality."Later Muntz recalled that the tooling costed $75000 and the labor costs were a monumental $2000 per car because body panels had to be carefully fitted, then leaded-in.
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The company was taken over by industrialist Nicola Romeo in 1915, and the name Alfa Romeo thus born.
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 Car Dealers Adjust to Internet Selling
Each of companies presenting have concluded significant research into the habits, patterns and wants of the Internet car buyer, as well as dealership attitudes and perceptions of this new customer.
Car and truck manufacturers are also working hard and fast to establish an Internet presence that can help steer new vehicle prospects to their dealerships.
Their findings indicate that Internet car shoppers are a very new breed and want to be treated differently once in the dealership.
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 Capsule History: Rutland Stock Cars
By the early 1950s, the Rutland's stock car fleet had dwindled to a mere 16 cars, its numbers reduced by old age, wrecks and accidents, the wartime scrap effort and finally competition from trucking interests.
These distinctive cars are characterized by their truss-rod, steel center sill underframes, Bettendorf T-section trucks, and the relatively short 7'8' inside height of their all-wood superstructure.
Originally built as single-deck cars, several of their number (cars 1970-1973) were converted into double-deck stock cars in 1914.
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 TheAvanti.com-Regardies magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The car was conceived in the Studebaker offices during the Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby days of 1961.
Sherwood H. Egbert, the newly named president of the nation's number five auto manufacturer, was determined to turn around the ailing company with an offering radically different from the good, stolid, middle-class, and utterly boring cars on which the firm had staked its declining fortunes.
Compared to the guady chrome and tail fins most cars of the sixties carried, it was as restrained and elegant as a single strand of pearls and the proverbial little fl dress.
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 Automotive Bookmarks
When the car industry was in its infancy, auto pioneers usually named their cars after themselves: Henry Ford, the Duryea brothers, Alexander Winton, Elmore Haynes and Elmer Apperson, Francis E. and Freeland O. Stanley (Stanley Steamer), and Charles W. Nash and were just a few of many auto pioneers who took that route.
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 Madman Muntz
Earl "Madman" Muntz was a legendary merchandiser of used cars and cheap home electronics in the 1940s and 50s, mostly in California.
He later founded the Muntz Car Company which made the Muntz Jet automobile.
("Jet" referred to the car's sporty contours--it was powered by a normal internal combustion motor.) His flamboyant television commercials for his various businesses made him famous.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/madman_muntz   (255 words)

  
 Muntz TV - Founded by Earl "Madman" Muntz
Muntz TV This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company in the 1960's and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company logo.
The TV business had its ups and downs, and Muntz went from riches to rags when he landed in bankruptcy court in 1955,and then back to riches a few years later when the market turned around.
Muntz was married seven times, and until the end, he drove a custom Lincoln Continental with a TV built into the dashboard (he claimed it helped him to drive better).
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 Cadillac Terms and Definitions A - C
In the early years, Pierce Arrow cars were used, but by the thirties Cadillac was established as the favorite of the hotel and its patrons.
That same car had collected earlier the "Automobile of the Year" trophy by the magazine "Automobile" and was also named one of the "Ten Best Cars" in the world by the magazine "Car and Driver".
The show car interior was a dark color [probably fl]; it was upholstered and trimmed in gunmetal gray leather, including the headliner, to match the roof color; it was equipped with a short-wave radio telephone in glove box, vanity case and secretarial pad in the rear armrest, hydraulic windows and highly decorative chrome interior hardware.
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 The top500 companies of Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
We are presenting many lists of the biggest companies in Europe.
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 Classic Cars: Barrett-Jackson Auction Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
One of 200 Muntz Jets produced by Madman Muntz in Chicago, IL.
The car was to compete with Nash-Healy, Corvette and the British Imports.
This car still retains it's factory installed Lincoln, V-8 and automatic transmission as well as a removable 'Carson' hardtop.
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It's nice to know the car collector magazines are hiring more than one author who can write authoratively about the AMC classics.
Driving them is so different (so high maintenance!) compared to today's cars that their owners should receive some kind of medal not only for being able to start them without serious injury but also for restoring and preserving them for the rest of us.
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 Save The Rutland - Second Section
On Monday, July 10, a small group of volunteers assisted representatives of the Danbury Railway Museum in loading Rutland Box Car 8085 on a TTX flat car for its journey to a new home at the museum's facility in Danbury, Connecticut.
The car was lifted off its trucks and the flat car was rolled underneath for the crane to gently drop the box into place in the center of the flat car.
A forty-foot, wood-sheathed car with fishbelly steel underframe, Rutland 8085 was one of 300 cars built in the summer of 1924 by the Youngstown Steel Car Company of Niles, Ohio (no relation to Youngstown Steel Door Co.).
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 Old Car / Auto Radio Schematics and Wiring Diagrams - JustRadios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Cruise-IN.com - Indiana built automobiles sorted by name
These same works may miss some instances for which a manufacturer's model is built in a plant other than that company's main places of business.
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In Indiana's case, for every one vehicle achieving production about two announcements of intent to manufacture or build a prototype were proclaimed.
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 Golf-Index.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
With the doors bolted closed the only way to get into the car was to climb onto one of the rear tires with 19 inch split rim wheels and jump over onto the seat.
I was a very active car enthusiastic and built several hot rods and dragsters in my teen years.
The car was so popular that every time we drove in we blocked traffic because everyone wanted to crowd around for a peek.
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 Links - The Old Car Manual Project
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First and foremost, the Old Car Manual Project is a library: a central place where anyone can come to get the information they need.
How this happens is by volunteers scanning their hard-to-find documents into a digital format, so that everyone can have access to the information in them
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 Car Superchips Alternative - DragonPower | DragonFuel | DragonBoost | Neon / LED Lights, ECU Chip alternative, Bulbs, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 The Simpsons Episode Guide: Complete Listing
After trying a hair-growing formula (charged to the company's health insurance), Homer gets promoted to an executive position, and gets a male secretary who helps him along in his job.
This half-brother, Herbert Powell, is a carmaker in Detroit, and wants Homer to design a car for the average man to save his car company.
Lisa enters into a doomed romance when she attempts to change Nelson Muntz, the school bully she develops a crush on.
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 Cars - Car Specs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Here you are at the first step to going through some 1500+ Car Specifications.
You can scroll down the very long page and look for a Year, Make, or Model or just type in the car and search.
We will continue to add more vehicles, so check back often.
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 Join Hot-Rod Internet
As well as Hot-Rod owners, parts sellers, clubs, etc, this can also be in the area of music, clothing etc. As long as it is Hot-Rod related.
We also accept Kustom and Classic (full chassis U.S. based cars) related clubs, businesses and individuals.
The cut off year for vehicles is 1965.
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 The View-Master URL: Commercial Reels
It is virtually impossible to apply any kind of systematic organization to commercial reels since they are made to the client's specification and fall outside the standard View-Master numbering schemes for their respective eras.
Those listed here are organized alphabetically by company, product, or subject name.
Albany Felt Company, Albany N.Y. Albany Felt Company, Albany N.Y. Albany Felt Company, Albany N.Y. #CR-415 America Today by Het Hoofdbureau (clothing?, limited edition of 500)
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