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On April 25, 1928, Lockhart's Stutz Black Hawk Special streamliner (named for the Indiana town that was home to Stutz's factory [6]) turned a warmup run of 198.29 mph (319.12 km/h), with his first official pass at 203.45 mph (327.42 km/h), [6] well below the 207.552 mph (334.023 km/h) mark set earlier in the year by Ray Keech in his 81-litre ...
The Blackhawk was an automobile manufactured by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis from 1929 to 1930. The Blackhawk was not as powerful, nor as expensive, as contemporary Stutzes, which is most likely why it was marketed as a separate make. [ 1 ]
A 1973 Stutz Blackhawk on display at the Stutz Car Museum in Indianapolis With an extra heavy gauge steel body, the Blackhawk measures greater than 19 feet (5.8 meters) long. Production Blackhawks used Pontiac Grand Prix running gear, Pontiac 's 7.5 L (455 in 3 ) V8 engine , a GM TH400 three-speed automatic transmission , and rear-wheel drive .
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".
English: A 1971 Stutz Blackhawk Series I in Masons Black seen at the 2023 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. First example built and first sold to Elvis Presley. Frank Sinatra also wanted it but Elvis agreed to use his likeness in some photos of it and Stutz chose to sell it to him.
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