Built in 1947, the Kurtis-Omohundro was America's first
post-war custom sports car. Frank Kurtis and Paul Omohundro had planned wide-scale
production of their car, which they called the Comet, based on a
112-inch wheelbase Ford chassis using a 1946 Mercury flathead V-8.
They
hammered the first body out of aluminum and planned on taking molds off
the body so they could pop out identical fiberglass bodies, but Ford
balked at supplying Kurtis and Omohundro with production chassis, so
the two partners dropped the project after completing this car and went
their separate ways.
The car never received much publicity at the time, and it changed hands
several times over the next few decades, winding up in the hands of
Alex Boeriu, who restored it in the mid-1970s.
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