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Old Posted Mar 6, 2011, 2:40 AM
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After his great post-WWII success as a salesman of used cars as well as of new tv sets, Earl "Madman"
Muntz founded the Muntz Car Company to produce the "Muntz Jet." About 400 were made from 1951-
-53, using the various Lincoln V8s of those years and GM's Hydra-Matic. Here a few Jets are pictured
on April 3, 1952, at 8363 Sunset Blvd.


The building is still there, tucked behind a Starbucks:
Google Street View
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