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Domino's SJ Duesenberg.
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Thanks, Steve and A.J.!
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Not hard to see why.
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that car was displayed at a show in Corona Del Mar CA in September 2010, owner listed as Lew Webb.
check this site for a photo, you may have to find it in a slideshow among other eye candy photos.
www.ocregister.com/articles/coro ... html?pic=1
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If anyone knows that car's current whereabouts, please let me know, it is one of those for which I do not know present ownership.
The Ft. Lauderdale Antique Car Museum (great Packard collection) and the Tampa Bay Auto Museum, both in Florida, and the Lane Motor Museum, in Nashville, TN, are similarly "rope-free." All three are very friendly, more like visiting someone's home and their (very large) garage than going to a museum. It helps that all three are, in fact, private collections that just happen to be open to the public by their generous caretakers.
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Bob Roller wrote: I talked with Dick Gold several times at Auburn over the years and was sorry to hear of his passing when he left us.
He owned one of my favorite Duesenbergs,J561 and he had another one,a Murphy CS with a wider than normal body and Zeiss head lights that turned with the steering gear.I never Knew its "J"number.
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I hope these are the numbers of his Murphy Convertible Sedan
J-259/2280
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You have had an experience I will never have and that was getting behind the wheel of the Bugatti Royale,
I got to look at the one in the Ford Museum back in 1963 and I think it was a convertible and yellow in color.
I also saw the Duesenberg Victoria with a pan under the engine to catch all the oil that was dripping out of it,
This car was supposedly given to John Watson for helping to develop the shock absorbers for the "J".
That was a sorry way to display a Duesenberg and I hope they got it repaired.
Frank Lloyd Wright had an L29 coupe and I recall reading about it and him saying the payments on it drove them crazy for a while. Is this car displayed in the ACD Museum? Someone in his family had a Duesenberg Brunn Riviera CS,the one built without the supercharger.
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Anyway on the car side I remember the Duesenberg, a gorgeous Chrysler Imperial DCP and of course the Bugatti Royale. None of the cars were even roped off - they encouraged you to get close. One of the museum workers invited me to sit behind the wheel of the Bugatti. I remember thinking it was weird to sit in an $8M car and I also remember that the steering wheel had a clock in the center of it.
Granted I was only 14 at the time but those memories endure. I wonder what happened to all that FLW stuff......
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He owned one of my favorite Duesenbergs,J561 and he had another one,a Murphy CS with a wider than normal body and Zeiss head lights that turned with the steering gear.I never Knew its "J"number. He also had a H&D Victoria that looked like it had been porcenilized with clear laquer. A bit over done IMHO.
I remember seeing a picture of Monoghan driving J107 and looking rather uptight about the experience. If ever I paid the price of a very fine home for a car and then couldn't enjoy it,someone else would soon own it.
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I have to admit I've wondered what happened to those sidemount covers - probably thrown out with the trash, I imagine, although I like to think someone kept them, if only for the curiosity value.
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Harry's & especially Melvin's MCC were always among my favorites. Looking out the window of our Hotel Auburn room in the AM and seeing the Murphy & that green "Packard body" roadster parked at the curb like regular cars was always a treat.
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I didn't look really close at that car as there were others that had caught my attention like Harry VanIderstine's SJ and Melvin Clemans MCC. I walked up behind Melvin and asked him "If the clutch we put in that old clunker was still working"and he promptly answered without turning around and said "You must be from Huntington" .
That car had been cosmeticly restored and had red leather upholstery instead of the brown it had origianlly and the contrast was nice,red and black with 6 new wide whitewalls.
I am not currently a member and my membership over the years has been spasmodic but I am glad to be able to share some memories before I get too old and feeble minded.
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1986 was my first ACD Reunion, and what with all the hoop-la in the press about the million dollar car, we looked over the Domino's car pretty close. It was nice enough, but I for one sure didn't care for the color combination it was then.
Interestingly a friend & I joined the club (for half price I think) to get into Eckhart Park, then ended up staying members.
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The next association with it was when he drove it for the R&T article. I recall him saying that the size and the long hood and big headlights were reminiscent of the Cadillac V16 he had tested earlier but right there,ALL similarity stopped. When the car started to move he said the hand
of the great engineer,Fred Duesenberg could be felt and he also said to WATCH the speedometer as this car came up to illegal speeds quickly and with no real effort.
I think I have seen pictures of this car with someone giving a "V"sign after winning a race with it.
Wasn't this the first Duesenberg to crack the million dollar mark as well?
We saw it at Auburn in 1986 and while it was a nice looking car,it wasn't any nicer than some of the others
there in the park and it had canvas spare tire covers proclaiming it as "Domino's Duesy". My own reaction to those covers and ad was "Whee and whoopee". I was completely "underwhelmed".
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"Google-ing" for the Domino's Duesenberg. And I finally found it. And boy it's been beautyfully restored. Mr. Keller Did What I wish that I could have. Kim
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Chris may have more current whereabouts.
BTW, if you ever get to Reno, visit the National Auto Museum, there are several ACD cars on exhibit, including the Phantom Corsair, an Auburn 12 speedster, a Model A Duesenberg roadster, an L29 Cord, a Westchester Cord, a Beverly Cord, the Cord LeBaron limo, and a Model J Duesenberg Murphy sedan. Right now the Duesenberg Weymann boatail speedster is also on display in a special but temporary exhibit honoring Bill Harrah's 100th birthday.
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Does anyone know where the Domino's Pizza Duesy is?. It was for sale in 1995 through RM Classics in Canada. And I have some pictures of it. At the time (1995) it needed a minor resto. so it's possible that the colors have been changed from it's 1995 colors which were Tan and Maroon. It would be nice to know where it ended-up. Thanx Kim
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