The Muntz Car Company was based in Glendale, California, and then Evanston, Illinois between 1950 and 1954.
In 1949 business entrepreneur, Earl ‘Madman’ Muntz (1914-1987), purchased a custom-bodied Buick from Frank Kurtis who is perhaps best known for his exceptional Indianapolis roadsters and Championship cars. When he saw the Kurtis sports car that Kurtis had been building in small numbers (just 38, with sleek rounded lines) with Ford flathead V8 power, Muntz, who had made a fortune selling new and used cars and television sets, liked it so much that he bought the project and started building a redesigned version which he called the Muntz Jet.
Muntz changed the Kurtis sports car, stretching it into a four-seater by extending the wheelbase to 113 inches, with first Cadillac, and then Lincoln…