Mark Besser wanted to get his hands on a Muntz Jet so badly that he really wasn’t in the mood to be choosey. He’d have probably been happy to land any of the roughly 50 Jets that are believed to still be surviving.
The fact that he found a really nice one, and one that has a pretty fun and interesting back story, turned out to be a bonus.
“I like oddball cars,” notes Besser, a resident of Bolivar, Mo. “I’ve got a Playboy … with a folding hardtop. I’ve got a Kaiser-Darrin, with the sliding doors. I’ve got an L-29 Cord, which I really like a lot. I like unusual cars. I want something you don’t see.
“I’ve been chasing these [Muntz Jets] at
