Newly restored and ready to hit the road! Jay gives an in-depth look at his 1918 Stutz Bearcat.
2019-02-14
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Newly restored and ready to hit the road! Jay gives an in-depth look at his 1918 Stutz Bearcat.
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I feel sorry for Jay, when he gets to heaven, he'll be bored.
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts,,
putting on the Stutz,
Come on girls it takes work, pick it up, let’s go.
No pain, no gain!
People used to use their exhaust cut-outs to harass and intimidate others, as does the Mayor, Mr. de Spain, with his own red EMF roadster:
"Though the first thing Mr. de Spain did after he got to be mayor was to have an ordinance passed saying that no cut-out could be opened in the town limits. So it had been years since we heard one. Then one morning we did…Mr. de Spain had driven blocks out of his way to rip past our house…in second gear with the cut-out wide open…Gowan knew which car it was even before he got to the window because Lucius' Ford made a different sound, and besides nobody but the mayor would have risked that cut-out with the cut-out law in force…the cut-out came on and it came ripping past with the cut-out like it was saying HAhaHAhaHAha…"
In Texas, a state law was passed outlawing cut-outs, I believe some time in the '30s, so it is technically illegal to use one. There was a law passed against "free-wheeling" at about the same time, specifically to address a feature the Nash had for a couple of years called "Free-Wheeling" which used a centrifugal clutch to disengage the engine from the drivetrain whenever you took your foot off the accelerator. So if you are driving a car with a cut-out in Texas, or a Nash with "Free-Wheeling," don't use either front of a cop!
(Just kidding. No one under the age of sixty or so knows about those two laws, unless they mess with old cars, since they haven't been relevant since about 1958. The way the free-wheeling law was written, it is still illegal to coast in neutral or with the clutch disengaged in Texas, but nobody cares.)
Those have so much more charactor with the top UP.
And even better unrestored like that guy on "Chasing Classic Cars". Hopefully that one didn't get restored. Fat chance though. 🙁 – – Learned more on this show of course!
Nice Hair Jay!
That is the most beautiful motor i have ever seen !!!!!!!
OK, how much do you think it cost to restore this Stutz to the height of perfection? Any guesses?
I remember reading a long time ago about this car and it's eccentric owners. I'm glad it was restored.
Oh J if you rolled it …dam.
"WWI"
It's not "restored"; it's "modified".
OK
Great save Jay!