Duesenberg History
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The Duesenberg brothers, Fred and Augie, first entered the automaking business with a car called Mason, which gained regional fame by winning a number of races and hillclimbs with Fred at the wheel.
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Duesenberg race car from the mid '20s
Les CharlatansThe three racing drivers, knowing they were in over their heads, added Ernest Henry from Switzerland to their team. Henry is a bit of an enigma.
Duesenberg Inc. went out of business in 1937.
The ACD Museum is located in the original Auburn Automobile Co. headquarters and showroom at 1600 S. Wayne St.
As a 19-year old, and without any formal training in art or engineering, he landed a job on the design team for the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company in 1933.
How's this for an automotive powerhouse posse: a Lamborghini Miura, a 1932 Packard Twin Six 12-cylinder coupe, a 1913 Mercer, several Bugattis including the acclaimed Type 57, Duesenbergs, a 1956 Chrysler Imperial, a 1966 Dodge Coronet Hemi, ...
Ab Jenkins made it famous in the '30s in his Duesenberg-based Mormon Meteor. The Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) arrived in 1949 and almost every outright land speed record has been set there ever since.
Since this is Hollywood, after all, there are movie cars and celebrities' cars, including a Batmobile, a '32 Duesenberg that evokes visions of Garbo and Gable, and a rare 1983 400i Ferrari automatic-tranny convertible once owned by Rod Stewart.
the nomenclature "300M", it brings to mind the history and memories of one of the greatest cars of all time, The Chrysler 300. The original C-300 was a late 1955 introduction; the first modern super high-performance luxury car ever built (Duesenberg ...
It's the same principle that in another day had luxury-car buyers commissioning custom-designed bodies for their Packards, Duesenbergs, Cadillacs, and, yes, Mercedes. Does this car's custom look justify its premium over an E-class?
Go back further, to the early 1930s, and Cadillac made a 16-cylinder open two-seater that could scare a Duesenberg costing double its price.Beneath its edgy, ultra-modern styling the XLR represents a return to those glory days.
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