More Frank Yount Duesenberg Pictures

My daughter must have used the coupe as her pattern for Texas Meet 2005 Great Gatsby Party Logo.

Josh,
You are absolutely right about Pansy's position. She was one of the wealthiest women in America and didn't take a back seat to anyone.

After my article came out in Old Cars, I got a phone call from a gentlemen in Lexington who had more information. We now think that even more photos exist.

I'll post 'em if we find 'em!
Greg

We really need the perspective of years before we start the name-calling.

Our beloved classics were nothing more than old cars into the 1950s. A couple of hundred bucks bought a nice Auburn sedan, a hundred more a presentable Cord. L-29s mostly went to the junkyards, because few would pay the $100 asking price. Convertible Duesenbergs could be had for $1500. Bob Gottlieb, in Motor Trend, once ridiculed a college youth for paying that much for a Murphy convertible coupe, because it had four flat tires and a dead battery! And I watched from my bedroom window, in 1947, a junkyard towtruck haul away a Packard Twelve sedan that had apparently been abandoned across the street.

Read a good book on American history, and discover that our Founding Fathers were not so highly thought of during their own lifetime either.

We can take pride in the preservation of history that we have all been part of. But we need to remember that t'was not always thus.

As for Pansy Yount, I think that scrapping a Duesenberg because her new neighbor owned an identical one made perfectly good sense to her. Can you imagine if they had both shown up at the country club in identical cars? Mortifying!

<!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> What moron would scrap a rare and valueable car. They should have scrapped a V-16 Cadillac or something expendable. Seriously, I don't get it. Duesenbergs were still expensive cars in the 40's. That car looks fine.

In researching our book we recently uncovered some interesting new facts. It seems that there were only two of these Ladies Berline's produced by Judkins. One was purchase by Frank Yount for his wife Pansy at the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair, the other was purchased by cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden. It seems that shortly before this car was scrapped by Pansy during WWII that Arden purchased the adjoining horse farm in Kentucky....draw your own conclusions!

Our thanks to Greg Riley and Randy Ema for these pictures!

This picture is also from the Ema collection. This car is one of the two Judkins coupes produced. It is unknown if this is the Yount car, or the one that still exists in the Blackhawk collection.
The drawing is in the possession of Frank Yount's granddaughter (I think I previously sent this one) and was sent to him by Duesenberg to assist in choosing the body style. - Greg Riley


1929 Duesenberg Judkins Coupe





Frank Yount's Duesenberg on the scales for a scrap-metal drive during World War II.