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mikespeed35 wrote: Chris, have you read Rolling Sculpture. If not, you should.
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Own it, have scanned the Duesenberg section but not had a chance to read it cover-to-cover yet. I'm an English major so my time for pleasure reading is much more limited than I would like. It's earmarked for this summer or, if I can pull it off, over Christmas.
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The design of that car is wonderful. With the top down, it looks just like a stretched Murphy convertible coupe, not like a four-passenger car at all unless you get close-up.
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White car is #J-564 / 2589, SJN Rollston Convertible Coupe.
Background is #J-151 / 2132, Murphy Sport Sedan.
All owned by Bill Parfet, whose collection I could live in quite comfortably for a year or nine.
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Looking at the Petersen photo do you think it might be the car that janst was asking about?
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I know Randy could solve this one but he hasn't weighed in.
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Not J-345, which has one-piece Monel side exhaust, no trunk, etc. (Also a Robert Armstrong photo, taken at PBC when the car was for sale from the Blackhawk Collection.)
The car that was built as J-401 / 2406 has engine J-527 now and is a single shade of maroon ("garnet red"). It was sold by RM Auctions at Monterey this August.
The car built as J-327 / 2340 has engine J-401 now and is white with red upholstery. It was sold by RM at Amelia Island this March.
[All the more reason to stop what we're all guilty of (myself included) and using J-numbers alone to identify Duesenbergs.]
I don't think that the car in the picture is any of the above. It looks a LOT like J-321 / 2186, which the Blackhawk Collection had for sale at Pebble Beach in 1999. This car is one on which my information is conflicting, but it originally had engine J-165.
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The "J401" that is red is the one that was born J401, but currently has supercharged engine J527 in it. This car was reportedly painted the dark maroon "garnet red" in 2000 , and received the chrome wire wheels at the same time. It was for sale by Gooding in 2006 and wore the maroon paint and had blackwall tires and no trunk. It has a louvered hood on the drivers side, and the screened hood for the exhaust on the other. It was also sold recently by RM and looked the same as in '06. www.rmauctions.com/CarDetails.cf ... CarID=r286
I doubt that it is the car in question because the color is different and if it was painted maroon at the same time as the crome wheels were installed, why does the car in question have chrome wheels but not the same paint <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: --> <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: --> <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: -->
The white one in Steves picture was white when it sold at Amelia Island in March 2009, and was white for many years. So I doubt that it is the car in question. It was originally equiped with engine J327, and now has engine J401.
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Also J395 appeared different last year than in the above pic. DIfferent tires, missing the Pilot Rays, front bumper bracing a different color. Edit: Plus J395 currently does not have the wood slats on the back and it has a trunk. It is reported that J395 recieved the trunk at the time of the restoration when it was converted from cream to red and black. Is it indeed the same car? <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: -->
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here's a link to a good gallery of Duesenberg photos that I find helpful for identifying individual cars, but I've found that its not 100% accurate compared to expert sources.
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