Northwest Herald from Woodstock, Illinois • Page 30

SECTION Friday, January 4, 2013 Northwest Herald Wheels Breaking news Wheels editor: Scott Helmchen shelmchenshawmeclia.com Photo provided The second Muntz Jet is about 90 percent restored. Still to come is covering the aluminum removable hardtop, rear seat fabrication and covering and installation of four like-new wheel covers. Muntz Jet a future award-winning classic ON CARS Fred Blumenthal A few years back, I stopped by Restorations Unlimited II in Cary to see how the complete rebuild process was going on the only existing 1911 Alpenia Flyer left in the world. Before I started to look at the Flyer, something else inventory of cars to be made like new. When I was kid, I had a summer job at a place called Hertzberg Binderies on the southeast corner of Belmont and Ravenswood Avenues in Chicago.

See MUNTZ, page E7 A chassis, some front and back end sheet metal, four worn out tires, windshield and side window framing and lots of loose parts in various sized boxes. The car was covered in a light coat of dust; it obviously had been sitting in storage a long time. But I did recognize it as a Muntz Jet. Shop manager Ray Morey started to laugh and said, "You can tell that's a Muntz, man you do know your cars." While I take pride in recognizing a lot of off-the-wall makes of cars, there was a reason I knew this latest addition to the shop's had just come into the rear of the shop. There wasn't much left of this once-stun- caught my eye, a vehicle that ning car.

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