Just A Car Guy: Stutz

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Thursday, January 01, 2026

Stutz had the wins to back up their claims!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/585/

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

a Stutz with the unusual accessory headlight that mounted under the radiator cap

interesting huge sticker on the passenger side of the windshield

Help Prevent Fires, 1929, Non-Resident Permit, State of California

Thank you TokyoTon! https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1O5A29YN?WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP&FR_=1&W=1920&H=911

Paul Whiteman's manager & car

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/01/1927-cadillac-with-headlightradiator.html

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Sept 1923, Tommy Milton heading for the Beverly Hills board track to race, in the HCS Special, a 1923 Miller 122, the first Miller (chassis and engine) to win the Indy 500 (thank you Dave!)

Like most of the great drivers from that era, Milton was a top-flight mechanic and self-taught engineer. Milton started his career as a driver with J. Alex Sloan's state fair automobile barnstorming act before making the move into AAA racing in 1916.

Blind in one eye from birth, Milton drove for Fred and Augie Duesenberg's team and scored his first win in 1917 on the concrete oval at Providence, Rhode Island.

Milton was at Daytona Beach in 1920 to run a 'Beach car', a twin-engined Duesenberg designed specifically by Milton to break the land speed record, which it did, 5 mph over de Palma's record

Milton raced at some demonstration runs Havana with other early racing superstars Barney Oldfield and Ralph de Palma in 1920 as well

Milton won the AAA board track title in 1920 and '21 and during the height of the board track era between 1917-'25 Milton won twenty-three AAA championship races, including the 1921 and '23 Indy 500s.

The above Miller has a logo on the cowl above the word special, and on the grill, it's actually the logo of Harry Stutz

Tommy Milton was the inspiration in 1926 of Finn Frolich's scupture placed in front of Richfield gas stations https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/finn-frolich-architect-and-scuptor-of.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9135969956504814&set=gm.1420979279079904&idorvanity=319578812553295

Saturday, January 04, 2025

this is another cool example of great woodworking, from Baldwin Toy Co of Nebraska, which has been making wood toys since 1976

Steve Baldwin has been creating wooden toys since the late 1960s. He started as an industrial arts teacher, which eventually led to a woodworking hobby. In 1976, that hobby became a profession when he started Baldwin Toy Co

https://www.baldwintoys.com/collectors-series.html
https://www.artfulhome.com/artist/Kris-Kratz/9064

https://www.facebook.com/BaldwinToys

Thursday, December 19, 2024

the Stutz Car Museum, a new museum that opened in downtown Indianapolis last year, in the very building where the cars were built. It is free and open to the public

The Stutz Motor Car Co. was liquidated in 1939. The sprawling Stutz campus was used simultaneously by two different companies until 1959 when the Paper Package division of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly acquired the buildings it did not yet own. It kept the factory in use until 1982.

For the next decade, the plant was severely under-utilized and slipped into a state of disrepair. For a few months, former Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Curator Jack L. Martin planned to create a “world-class museum of automotive history” at the plant, but those plans ceased in 1988 due to a lack of funding.

In 1992, the factory was only partially occupied when local businessman and car guy Turner Woodward acquired the facility. His team embarked on a multi-year restoration project that converted the plant into a business center and a haven for dozens of artists. In 2021, Woodward sold a majority ownership in the plant to New York City-based SomeraRoad, Inc.

Fortunately for automobile enthusiasts, as well as the city of Indianapolis, the new owners also believed in the “adaptive reuse” concept of revitalizing existing historic structures. While Woodward gets the credit for saving the factory, the new owners continued that work, creating what it has called a “multidimensional live-work-play atmosphere” by reportedly investing $100 million in the complex. Today, it’s home to offices, restaurants, retail shops, fitness centers and events.

The 10,000-sq.-ft. car museum that opened early last year is in a single-story building that was once a machine shop for Stutz. The cars on display are owned by Woodward, and while most of the vehicles on display are Stutz, there are other cars on display, as well.

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/resources/a-look-inside-the-new-stutz-museum

https://www.thestutz.com/

Monday, December 12, 2022

A Stutz pushing through snow up to the floorboards, and those were really high on those wheels - how big do you think those rims were? The Bearcat had 32" x 6.5"

So these are probably close, and that makes that about 12-16 inches of snow on the road

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=536822215138756&set=a.415445867276392

Sunday, October 02, 2022

built in 1951, this strange result of bodywork is part 1949 Cadillac, part 1932 Stutz, and part 1951 Studebaker

Elwood Needy was inspired by the debut of the 1949 Jaguar XK120, and purchased a 1932 Stutz as the donor car, shortening the chassis to match the legendary Super Bearcat.

While the idea was to channel as much of the Jag’s aesthetics as possible, a 1949 Cadillac Series 61 formed the backbone of the roadster’s coachwork. With the assistance of an aircraft craftsman, full wooden bucks were built for the stunning rear sections of the body, an elegance contrasted by the 1951 Studebaker up front.

Needy died in 1952, leaving the car unfinished. His son took up the mantle and had the car running and mostly completed soon after, only selling the car in 1963 to another enthusiast, who retained and enjoyed the car until around a decade ago

https://www.hagerty.com/media/auctions/8-offbeat-classics-for-sale-to-spice-up-the-cooler-months

Friday, September 23, 2022

Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab started off as a store clerk across the street from Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill in Braddock PA.

The superintendent, Civil War veteran "Captain" Bill Jones bought his cigars at the store, and the plucky Charlie asked for a job.

He started on the surveying crew and by 1889 had replaced the Captain who was killed in a mill mishap. In another 8yrs he had displaced Henry Clay Frick as President of Carnegie Steel, and then in 1900 brokered the deal between Carnegie and JP Morgan to form US Steel which he then became President of.

Shortly thereafter he bought a controlling interest in then-small Bethlehem Steel and moved over there as President, and soon thereafter (1907) seized on the European process of making large, single-piece I (or H) beams which reaped huge profits and almost certainly fueled the explosion of skyscrapers.

He also built the largest mansion ever built in Manhattan (Riverside, d1949), commissioned a private rail car (extant, in NC), bankrolled a mining town in NV with its own stock exchange bldg (Rhyolite, now a ghost town), and was the head of President Wilson's Emergency Fleet Corp that controlled all shipbuilding during WWI.

Somewhere along the line he bought a large (possibly controlling) interest in Stutz Motors.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/posts/1185075382073382/