Re: This is one of the most beautiful cars I've EVER seen!

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/3/23 4:04:33

Faith and begorrah, beauty be a personal matter. That Stutz is right jaunty for its year, but in my 'umble opine, agree with the previous gents 'bout the distracting bumper. And the runningboards are a mite wide, further distract from the car's lines. It looks a little like a Railton 8, assuming they ever made such a coupe.

According to Maurice Hendry, Howard Reed, a Packard engine designer and Buick alumnus, tried during the late '30s to sell Packard management on not just overhead valves, but an overhead camshaft engine, something seen domestically in only Duesenberg and Stutz in that decade. Reed was told such a valve train's noise would be unseemly in a Packard.
Further afield, Fred Duesenberg had wanted to build something closer to his Model A Duesenberg's size, which is about that of the above Stutz. But E. L. Cord insisted on excess. The outsized and rapidly obsolete Model J was the result, which of course led to the more rationally sized 1936-37 Duesenberg One-Twenty-- oops, um, Cord 810/812. (Which shares a couple engine accessories with the early Packard 120.)

We Packardites are catholic in our tastes, which is why we own Packards. We know what's out there. But, thought i'd try to tie the above car to our realm.

Dutch Darrin, both with Hibbard and then Fernandez, cloaked a fair amount of Stutzes as well as Packards.