{"id":31948,"date":"2018-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/stutz-duplex-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:58:32","slug":"stutz-duplex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/stutz-duplex-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stutz Duplex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The team of Secret Classics is fascinated by unknown cars from the rich automotive history, specially when they are sporty and\/or luxurious. In our reports series “unknown big cars” we will feature different limousines, sedans and grand tourers that are unknown to most of our readers in loose order. First episode features the Stutz Duplex from 1971.

In USA the name Stutz is well known in the automotive world. 1913 Harry C. Stutz founded his car company, but already since 1898 he put engines into coaches and since 1910 he manufactured car parts. In 1911 he founded ‘Ideal Motor Company’ and started building cars as well. Two years later he merged both companies under the label ‘Stutz Motor Car Company of America’ and built cars until 1936, specially for the upper market with higher prices. Because of the economic crisis and changing tastes among customers the sales dropped down until Stutz had to apply for bankruptcy and was closed all together two years later.

1968 a banker from New York named James O\u2019Donnell bought the rights of Stutz and ensured help of well known industrial designer Virgil Exner. He designed a new retro car with some inspiration from his Duesenberg Model D from when he tried to revive that traditional make.  As ‘Stutz Motor Car of America’ the new company reminded of the legendary pre-war cars of which O\u2019Donnell owned one in his youth as he told sometimes.  He said also that his new Stutz cars were coachbuilt, so he used technical parts from US cars and only designed new bodyworks and interiors. Therefor he bought cars from General Motors and shipped them to Italy where original body parts and interiors were dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n

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