He is perhaps best known for designing the 1938 Phantom Corsair,[1] a prototype car built on a Cord 810 chassis by the coach builder Bohman & Schwartz, incorporating a Lycoming 190 bhp V8 engine, weighing two tons and seating six people.
In 1937 he married Helen Clay Goodloe, with whom he had a daughter Helen Meredith Dewitt Heinz Heinz studied Naval Architecture at Yale University[3] and Westlawn Academy of Yacht Design [4] and designed a number of speedboats,.
Heinz had allowed his friend Phil Brainard to drive his open Buick home from a dance he was attending.
After a detour to collect the hat, the Buick ventured back on to the Lincoln Highway near Versailles and was broadsided by an unseen vehicle.
[9] Heinz is buried at Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a private mausoleum (section 14, lot 61, grave 7) with other family members.