The Stutz DV-32 featured the last iteration of the famed Vertical Eight engine.

Featuring a redesign by Charles “Pop” Greuter, the mill’s top end was equipped with double overhead camshafts, angled valves, and hemispherical combustion chambers.

The upgrades produced some 156 horsepower, which was about the same horsepower-per-cubic-inch ratio as the Duesenberg Model J.

The DV-32 offered here was bodied in aluminum by LeBaron as a four-passenger speedster.

Stutz Speedsters were offered in two variations, with or without the “dual-cowl” appointment of a rear tonneau and windscreen.

Of the few surviving DV-32 Four Passenger Speedsters, this example is believed to be one of only two factory-built dual-cowl Speedsters in existence.

The ownership history of chassis number DV-26-1474 has been traced back to well-known San Francisco socialite, enthusiast, and early collector Scott Newhall.

Later, it passed to prominent collector Charles Jones, who sold it to a collector in 1990.

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