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The Ideal Motor Car Company, organized in June 1911 by Harry C. Stutz with his friend, Henry F Campbell, began building Stutz cars in Indianapolis in 1911. [2] They set this business up after a car built by Stutz in under five weeks and entered in the name of his Stutz Auto Parts Co. was placed 11th in the Indianapolis 500 earning it the slogan "the car that made good in a day".
The Bearcat name was reintroduced in 1931. The depression had not been kind to Stutz, so the name was used as a way to boost sales. The new Bearcat had the DV-32 (32 valve) eight-cylinder engine and each car came with an affidavit saying the car had been tested at 100 mph (160 km/h).
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The company belonged to the Mechanical Manufacturing Company of Chicago, and from 1927 on they were distributed through the Stutz dealer network. Stutz Motor Company took over the company wholesale in 1932, hoping that the truck would save the failing company. The Pak-Age-Car company was not enough for Stutz to pin their hopes on. [1]
Stutz also used them in their top-of-the-line sportscar, the DV-32 Super Bearcat that could reach 100 mph (160 km/h). [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The 1935 Duesenberg SJ Mormon Meteor's engine was a 419.6 cid (6.9-liter) straight-8 with DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder and a supercharger.
1933 Stutz DV-32 Monte Carlo The new Stutz 8 was advertised as having its body "designed by Brewster & Company" in their 1925 catalogue, when they were actually engineered by Brewster instead. v
Stutz DV-32 18:08.700 1931 Charles H. Myers Hunt Special 17:10.300: 1932 Glen Shultz Shultz/Stutz Special 16:47.200: 1933 Glen Shultz Stutz DV-32 17:27.500 1934 Louis Unser: Stutz Special 16:01.800: 1935 W.P. Bentrup 1935 Chevrolet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton Truck 26:12.000 [note 3] 1936 Louis Unser Shultz Stutz 16:28.100 1937 Louis Unser Stutz DV-32 16: ...
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