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25/07/2022 12:31 pm
In the early years, Duesenberg was know for their light weight and powerful race cars. By 1926. the company was failing and was bought out by E. L. Cord for the brothers' name and engineering expertise. Cord took the company in a new direction by building large, luxurious automobiles to compete with the elite European brands. For this, he had the Duesenberg J chassis as a platform for powerful luxury cars. The powerplant was the 265 hp, 32v, DOHC straight 8. This particular chassis started life as a Murphy bodied Town Car for a wealth socialite. It was later sold to Vladimir de Redevsky of Paris who, in 1935 commissioned Graber Coachworks of Wichtrach, Bern, Switzerland to craft this cabriolet body and also provide an upgraded suspension and new gauges. Besides replacing the standard Grill with a more aerodynamic one, the body incorporated all the current ideas of streamlining. Prior to restoration the body was painted black and silver. After the restoration, it received 3 more different paint schemes until its current blue and black. It resides now in the Harrod Museum.
25/07/2022 1:32 pm
Thanks Rich for the terrific pictures and text. I am glad to have this model in my collection and now have a few more details I didn't know.
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25/07/2022 4:32 pm
Hm, Rich, did this car changed ownership? It was last (at least as of 2018 when I saw it) in the Sam and Emily Mann's collection. Before that, I believe, it was in the Harrah's collection. Where is Harrod museum anyway? Google was clueless.
This is how the car looked before Sam Mann's repaint/restoration. According to Raffi, Mr. Mann hated the orange/brown combo, and he did not allow Automodello to recreate it in that paint scheme.
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25/07/2022 5:25 pm
Thanks Rich for the terrific pictures and text. I am glad to have this model in my collection and now have a few more details I didn't know.
me too thanks Rich, and Chav too, much prefer the blue and black to the orange and brown.
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25/07/2022 7:39 pm
Thanks Rich for the terrific pictures and text. I am glad to have this model in my collection and now have a few more details I didn't know.
me too thanks Rich, and Chav too, much prefer the blue and black to the orange and brown.
after the orange and brown, it was then painted tutone red before the final blue/silver.
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25/07/2022 7:41 pm
@chav The Harrah Automotive Museum AKA the National Automobile Museum is in Reno, Nevada.
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25/07/2022 7:48 pm
@chav The recent whereabouts and ownership I got from the "Conceptcarz" site which had the last owner before Harrah's was Heinz Boethge of Switzerland,
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25/07/2022 8:14 pm
A gorgeous model, one I am pleased to have. I saw the actual car in 2018 & 2019. It was painted the blue/black then.
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
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25/07/2022 9:23 pm
@chav The recent whereabouts and ownership I got from the "Conceptcarz" site which had the last owner before Harrah's was Heinz Boethge of Switzerland,
Rich, you confused me with the name "Harrod Museum". The Graber Duesenberg however is in Sam's Mann collection, it is not in Reno Nevada. Automodello did 3 of his cars, Graber Duesenberg, the Porutout Aero-Coupe and the Delahaye Figoni et Falaschie. Mr. Mann painted the Graber 2-tone blue. Several of his cars were at concours d'elegance MI in 2018.
All these 5 beauties shown here belonged to Mr. Mann
