Frank Kurtis built hundreds of innovative midget, sprint, champ and Indy cars from 1935 to 1963. While researching Kurtis's life for an upcoming Hot Rod Hero article in Hemmings Muscle Machines, Jim Donnelly lent me Gordon Eliot White's book, Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style, which detailed Kurtis's life and achievements.

Of course, what interested me quite a bit were the various locations mentioned in the book: Kurtis worked out of no less than seven locations when working on his own, and White included the addresses for several of those locations, making it simple to seek those locations out on Google Maps. So let's begin.

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