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We were having this conversation over at the ACD forum and some of you might find it interesting.

AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG CLUB :: View topic - Much Modified Stutz Two Passenger Torpedo

Here is a picture of the Stutz Jones Special which ran at Indy in 1930 finishing 10th. It is currently for sale here.

It was owned by Tommy Wolfe of Maywood Calif in 1959. It looks like he also owned a Dv32 Bearcat at about the same time. Does anyone know anything else about Tommy or the Jones special?

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An interesting tidbit from the Wisconsin State Journal May 31st 1931. L.L Coran (former Indy winner), the back up driver from the Jones Special was planning on coming back to Indy with a DV32 Stutz.

Another interestins Indianapolis

entry will be the Stutz Bearcat

which will be as near stock as racing

rules and practice will permit.

The Stutz will have the new DV-32

engine, which takes its name from

the four valves per cylinder in the

eight-cylinder engine, The double

overhead chamshafts actuate the

valve mechanism that gives approximately

60 per cent increase in

volumetric efficiency and assures

better distribution of the gas to the

combustion chambers. Bert Dingley,

former champion racing driver

who now is production manager for

Stutz, is overseeing the building of

the racing car and L. L. Corum, who

I won the 1924 Indianapolis race and

is now a member of the experiment-

engineering staff for Stutz, will

! drive the car,

Here is another entry from April 20th:

Stutz Enters

Stock Car in

Speed Classic

"Bearcat" Revives Memory

of First Race at Indianapolis

20 Years

Ago

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind — Racing

ghosts of the first 500-mile automobile

race ever held hero in

1911 fluttered out of speed's memory

closet today when a Stutz Bearcat,

an official factory semi-stock entry,

was made for the 'International

Sweepstakes to be held at the Indianapolis

Motor Speedway May 30-

The car entered by the Stutz Motor

Car company of America, Inc.. of

Indianapolis will be diven by L. L.

Corum, who started the race in the

car that the late Joe Boyer drove

to a sensational victory in 1924.

It recalls the first Stutz of history

—the car that was built for the first

500-mile race here. It finished In

the 1911 race and was the beginning

of a big automobile factory.

"We don't expect to win the race,"

President B, 'S. Gorrell of Stutz

said. "It Is not reasonable to expect

that a stock car, built both for speed

and readability, could compete successfully

with highly specialized racing

cars built for speed only. But

we do know this: That our entry

will bs so near & standard car that

we can take It right off the race

course and run it on the road In

comfort"

"The motor we will use in the

Bearcat will be our DV-32. our new

eight-cylinder engine with four valve

per cylinder and double overhead

camshaft

"We expect the Bearcat will exceed

the average of 85.34 miles an

hour, -which Corum set with the

Stuti In last; year's race

The May 28 Edition of the paper states:

Lora Corum driving a Stutz Bearcat failed to qualify.

Anyone have a picture of this car???

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