- sedan 35,000
- 17,900 overpriced
- Edmonds, WA
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- carsforsale.com
- sedan 35,000 gasoline white automatic
This car was one of earl “madman” muntz’s personal cars and part of his extensive collection, as featured in this month’s hemming’s classic car magazine. This is a piece of automotive and hollywood history with only 35,000 miles on the car. It is a virtually time capsule in that it is equipped with all the best money could buy in 1984 with a built-in tv, rear antenna, vcr and the classic cellular antenna with phone! History of the man (scroll down for the car details):the very name conjures up memories, for many, of one of the wildest and craziest entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Muntz won’t let me – she’s crazy!” and “i buy ’em retail, sell ’em wholesale – it’s more fun that way!” these billboards, plus a steady bombardment of radio ads, helped muntz sell $76 million worth of automobiles in 1947, when a million dollars was real money. And his logo — a caricature of muntz wearing a black napoleon hat and red bvds — seemed to be everywhere. He produced and sold muntz tvs, cheap but functional sets that competed successfully in the marketplace with rca, philco and other electronic giants of the time. And his tv business made him a second multimillion dollar fortune. He produced the first american sports car — the muntz jet. The jets sold for $5,500 but they cost $6,500 to produce, and this at a time (the early 1950s) when a new cadillac could be had for $3,200. His muntz stereo-pak was a roaring success, and his “madman” persona, already embedded in the nation’s consciousness over the previous 20 years, was omnipresent. His marital history, in the meantime, hardly matched his succes in business. Muntz married seven times, each wife a beauty. One wife was the singer and actress joan barton, onetime costar to john wayne. Another wife was patricia stevens, owner of the nationwide string of patricia stevens finishing schools. And, when not married, there were plenty of girlfriends. In later years, one of the most prominent was comedienne phyllis diller. An outgoing and fun-loving guy, his many pals included singer rudy vallee, comedian jerry colonna, actor bert lahr, presidential son james roosevelt, tv host dick clark and cowboy star gene autry. A millionaire among movie stars. Pretty heady stuff for a high school dropout from the small town of elgin, illinois. Born in 1914, earl muntz was a born tinkerer. He built his first radio at the age of eight. By the age of 14, in 1928, he had built his own car radio, one of the first ever. And by age 20 he had his own used car lot, with his mother signing all the sales paperwork as earl wasn’t yet of legal age to sign the deals himself. Then, in 1941, earl headed west and opened a used car lot in glendale, california. Muntz gave shore a free hand to come up with whatever gimmicks shore thought might sell cars. The deluge of billboards and radio commercials (as many as 170 a day!) that followed, all built around the “madman” muntz figure, resulted in muntz soon becoming the largest-volume used car dealer in the world. During world war ii, with no new cars being manufactured, used cars were at a premium, especially on the west coast. So muntz bought cars in the midwest at low prices and hired servicemen to drive them west where they sold for double what muntz paid for them. The servicemen not only got a comfotable ride cross-country, but muntz paid them $. Power Locks✔ Power Windows✔ AM/FM✔ Climate Control✔ Cruise Control✔ Air Conditioning
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