| Stutz was "The car that made good in a day." That day was at the first Indianapolis 500, in May of 1911. Harry Stutz built a car in five weeks, entered it in the race, and finished eleventh. That wasn't good enough to produce an advertising slogan. The Stutz Company was not a mass producer of automobiles, but instead made limited numbers of fast cars. The most famous was the legendary Stutz Bearcat of 1913, a true sports car. In legend claims that Stutz intentionally installed clutches with such stiff springs that women couldn't use them. Stutz produced between 2000 and 5000 cars annually during the twenties. IN 1932 the Bearcar name was revived for a speedster guaranteed to surpass 100 mph, but in 1934 only six cars left the factory, and in January of 1935 the company announced that it was quitting car production to make delivery vans. The Stutz Company was dissolved in 1939. |
