Glenister 1936
1930 The Gary Cooper Duesenberg J left
As in “It’s a Duesy.” As in Duesenberg. As in power and speed and audacious size and spellbinding beauty. As in engineering, breeding, and bloodline that place it at the very pinnacle of automotive achievement, beside such icons as Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, and Bugatti and qualify it, hands down, as the greatest car ever produced in America. Duesenberg. As in the only automobile ever to enter the language as a superlative noun in the lexicon of slang.
The name has come to be equated with European nobility and patrician tastes, but in fact the Duesenberg’s origins were decidedly plebeian. It rose from, of all places, the cornfields of Iowa, the creation of two brash brothers, Fred and August Duesenberg. Like other noted American mechanical creators of the late nineteenth century—the Wrights, Ford, Edison, Curtiss, Eastman —they were back-yard tinkerers, for the most part bereft of formal education (and therefore the constraining dicta of academia). Born in Lippe, Germany, in the 1870s (Frederic, the senior, in 1874: August, five years later), they followed their older brother, Henry, to America after’ the death of their father when they were still little boys. The family settled in Rockford, Iowa, a tiny farming community a few miles south of Mason City. Henry toured the surrounding territory as a salesman for a nursery and seed company.
1930 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Berline
Coachwork by LeBaron
Unquestioned Provenance and Exceptional Authenticity
An ACD Club Category One Example – Original Engine, Chassis And Body
Magnificent Semi-Formal Open Coachwork
CCCA Senior Premiere Award Winner
Highly Regarded in Duesenberg Circles
One of Only Two Such Model Js Known to Survive
420 CID DOHC Inline 8-Cylinder Engine
Schebler Dual-Throat Updraft Carburetor
265 BHP at 4,200 RPM
3-Speed Manual Gearbox
4-Wheel Vacuum-Assisted Hydraulic Drum Brakes
Live-Axle Suspension with Semi-Elliptical Leaf Springs and Double-Acting
Hydraulic-Lever Shock Absorbers
1930 The Gary Cooper Duesenberg J left
As in “It’s a Duesy.” As in Duesenberg. As in power and speed and audacious size and spellbinding beauty. As in engineering, breeding, and bloodline that place it at the very pinnacle of automotive achievement, beside such icons as Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, and Bugatti and qualify it, hands down, as the greatest car ever produced in America. Duesenberg. As in the only automobile ever to enter the language as a superlative noun in the lexicon of slang.
The name has come to be equated with European nobility and patrician tastes, but in fact the Duesenberg’s origins were decidedly plebeian. It rose from, of all places, the cornfields of Iowa, the creation of two brash brothers, Fred and August Duesenberg. Like other noted American mechanical creators of the late nineteenth century—the Wrights, Ford, Edison, Curtiss, Eastman —they were back-yard tinkerers, for the most part bereft of formal education (and therefore the constraining dicta of academia). Born in Lippe, Germany, in the 1870s (Frederic, the senior, in 1874: August, five years later), they followed their older brother, Henry, to America after’ the death of their father when they were still little boys. The family settled in Rockford, Iowa, a tiny farming community a few miles south of Mason City. Henry toured the surrounding territory as a salesman for a nursery and seed company.
1930 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Berline
Coachwork by LeBaron
Unquestioned Provenance and Exceptional Authenticity
An ACD Club Category One Example – Original Engine, Chassis And Body
Magnificent Semi-Formal Open Coachwork
CCCA Senior Premiere Award Winner
Highly Regarded in Duesenberg Circles
One of Only Two Such Model Js Known to Survive
420 CID DOHC Inline 8-Cylinder Engine
Schebler Dual-Throat Updraft Carburetor
265 BHP at 4,200 RPM
3-Speed Manual Gearbox
4-Wheel Vacuum-Assisted Hydraulic Drum Brakes
Live-Axle Suspension with Semi-Elliptical Leaf Springs and Double-Acting
Hydraulic-Lever Shock Absorbers