# Muntz motor mansions **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184 "2020-10-14T00:38:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/1 "2020-10-14T00:38:59Z")
Ever driven one? ridden one? seen one? The jingle tickled my Mother; she used to ‘sing’ it, ‘_…to you at once direct from Madman Muntz_’. Father was too economical to rent one. I remember the little cartoon Napoleon character in his ads. ---
**Author:** ![davepsinbox\_157004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@davepsinbox\_157004](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davepsinbox_157004)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/2 "2020-10-14T22:19:25Z")
Sorry, never heard of them. I remember Muntz TV’s though. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/3 "2020-10-14T22:35:11Z")
I never lived in LA and would not have heard of him. Did you live there in the 40s and 50s? Here’s a story about him from the LA Times. > **[An L.A. legend you've never seen or heard](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-me-then16-story.html)** > > Earl 'Madman' Muntz inundated the city with wacky slogans to hawk his cars and TVs, but he never appeared in any of his ads. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/4 "2020-10-14T22:42:29Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > Did you live there in the 40s and 50s? I lived in San Francisco in the '50s. I think he was state-wide, because I saw his print ads; there was always a little Napoleon cartoon character, left hand in his coat, right hand extended up. I heard or read an interview with him years later. He said the worst renters were dentists, they didn’t deal with even the smallest problem themselves. I thought I read that the Motor Mansions were his first product, but it seems otherwise. I see he made his own cars, Muntz _Jets_ for a while. That’s a good way to lose money. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/5 "2020-10-15T00:31:19Z")
Can’t find any pic of a Muntz motor mansion, can you? ---
**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/6 "2020-10-15T00:53:47Z")
Near the end of the documentary about him there were a few shots of the motor mansion, from what I can find out these were production RV’s that Muntz bought elsewhere and brought to a lot in Los Angeles to resell. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/c/2/c29f5e249495582cbfca15706644bbcd9ffe710e.jpeg "Madman Muntz") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deFlB2G0mH8) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/muntz-motor-mansions/171184/7 "2020-10-15T06:57:37Z")
Now that’s an interesting guy.