{"id":13304,"date":"2018-09-07T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:29","slug":"the-stutz-motor-co-1911-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/09\/07\/the-stutz-motor-co-1911-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stutz Motor Co. 1911-1935"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span><\/strong>he Stutz Motor Co, about five blocks from where Indianapolis Auto Row began at the Fisher Automobile Co, is also so big I could not fit much of it into my camera. Before they closed in 1935, they made 35,000 luxury automobiles that are still much prized even today. Here in 2018, it is the Stutz Business Center where more than eighty artists, sculptors, photographers, designers, architects, and craftsmen do their work.<\/span><\/p>\n

With all the first automobile manufacturers locating here so they could test their wares on the Indy 500 race track, by the 1920\u2019s, Indianapolis was was widely considered to be the center of the automobile industry. It was mostly thought of in this way, because it was home to the four-story Stutz Motorcar factory. With the help of investors like Charles Schwab, Stutz occupied an entire city block, and was always in the news for its cutting edge advances. It developed, for example, the 8-cylinder engine, the overhead cam, many safety features and cars that consistently won races not just in Indianapolis but all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pictured also is a 1912 Sutz Bearcat. It has hard to believe that such a beautiful piece of technology was made 106 years ago. And made in Indianapolis also the home of the Deusenberg (“it’s a Deusy”) that sold for 225,000 in 2018 dollars<\/span><\/p>\n

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More info –\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stutz_Motor_Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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