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Duesenberg J-587 Bohman & Schwartz "Throne Car"
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The hydraulic top and elevating seat never really existed.
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Those are the correct original colors, inside and out.
The car was longer than the ramps on the car carriers, so I devised a loading technique that would allow the car to be loaded.
WE took it to Pebble Beach, where is was totally ignored by the Judges.
Fran said if he'd known how bad the car was he probably would not have taken the job.
I've driven the car, and it aint too shabby.
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Brian R. Peterson wrote: Hi All,
Does anyone know who the new owner of J-587 is? I've been trying to locate a name from the auction lists, but so far have had no luck.
~ Brian
Hello Brian,
the Throne Car is today, as Bill Bicknell said (somewhere before in this thread), a part of the (open for public) Louwman Car-Collection/Museum in The Hague/Netherlands.
Here is a link to the J-587 (museum) site www.louwmanmuseum.nl/ontdekken/o ... throne-car
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Does anyone know who the new owner of J-587 is? I've been trying to locate a name from the auction lists, but so far have had no luck.
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I've found some awesome pictures of the fully restored J-587:
Having seen the car clearly for the first time, I'm not quite as impressed with it as I had been back in 2004 when I posted this thread.
It's way TOO big, does not do the Duesenberg marquee any justice, and at the risk of blaspheming, I think it looks like a pregnant elephant.
Still, it IS a Duesenberg, and I would happily own and drive it.
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Father Divine's Peace Mission followers also appear to be getting very small in numbers as a group today~~~
Still there are some who still anxiously await his predicted return from the dead to this very day !
Many of the large once grand Hotels that once housed his many followers in the Phila. & NY areas have been sold, or long since abandoned.
There is great concern among many area residents that the fantastic Woodmont Mansion Estate may now be in jeopardy.
Several similar mansion estates have been bulldosed lately to make way for townhouses, Mcmansions, and other development.
Woodmont was once built & owned by a local Steel Barron~~~Allan Wood of Allan Wood Steel Co; who as also a US Congressman.
After Mr Wood's death Father Divine's followers bought the grand estate for he & his followers personal use as a weekend getaway.
Since Woodmont is considered a church it pays no real estate, town, nor school taxes; and town officals have sadly long had their eyes on the large tract of land so it can be put into high-end housing development in order to generate new local & county real estate taxes.
There sadly seems now to be few in the area with a preservation of Woodmont mindset.
The future of the fantastic grand Woodmont Mansion, pictured earlier in this forum thread, may soon be in serious jeopardy.
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Nancy also wanted to know if any Duesenberg owner with a "similar" Duesenberg car could drive around in order to have their "similar" car photographed for their documentary film.
I told her that there IS NO "Similar" looking model "J" Duesenberg Model "J" as Father Divine's 10 pasenger "Throne Car" was a true one-of-a-kind~~~~
The largest, longest, & widest Body, & longest Chassis on a Model "J" Duesenberg ever built~~~
I basically told her it was an Overgrown Beast !
Really an odd-ball, and not a real true representation of the really grand & sporty Model "J" Duesenbergs we all know, & go crazy over, today.
I also sent her six faded, & yellowed, color print scans of early 1970s file photos I scanned and turned into jpeg email format that my Father took of the car at the Woodmont Estate's carriage house when we first inspected it for another noted 70's collector at that early 1970s time period.
I believe Mother Divine was asking $30-$32K for the long stored, abused, & non running unrestored car at this time; as Dad had noted this price on the back of one of the 40+ year old prints!
WOW~~~~How prices have changed !!!
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/url]
who is doing a TV documentary on Father Divine, his Peace Mission Church, his various mansion estates, hotels, churches etc; as well as his famous giant 10 passenger Duesenberg "J" "Throne Car".
If anyone here on the forum can help her with any information. old in the day period, & present day photos, of the giant Duesenberg "J" etc. she would really appreciate all your help & effort!
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according to an article (incl. a picture) at the german classic car magzine "Oldtimer Markt", the "Throne car" is now -displayed at/a part of- the Louwman Collection in Den Haag (The Hague) in the Netherlands.
If I got it right, the Collection sold a Murphy Convertible Sedan last year (@Pebble Beach?) and bought the Throne car instead.
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landmark wrote: Hello,
the Throne car is under offer at Quail Lodge Sale, 18 Aug 2011 to 19 Aug 2011
Estimate: $ 400000 - $ 600000
www.bonhams.com/usa/auction/19363/lot/420/
As well as this "nice" :rolleyes: Duesy www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad57199.html
and this rebuilt Torpedo Pheaton: www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad57203.html
Are that all O'Quinn cars?
It seems there are a lot of offers of high class prewar cars this year.
Looks like a lot of collectors (or their inheritors) want to (or must) make cash.
The results could be interesting...
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Hello,
I just checked the Bonhams-homepage about the results of the Quail Lodge auction.
It looks like that Bonhams has not sold any of the three offered Duesenbergs.
Is that right?
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the Throne car is under offer at Quail Lodge Sale, 18 Aug 2011 to 19 Aug 2011
Estimate: $ 400000 - $ 600000
www.bonhams.com/usa/auction/19363/lot/420/
As well as this "nice" :rolleyes: Duesy www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad57199.html
and this rebuilt Torpedo Pheaton: www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad57203.html
Are that all O'Quinn cars?
It seems there are a lot of offers of high class prewar cars this year.
Looks like a lot of collectors (or their inheritors) want to (or must) make cash.
The results could be interesting...
Matt
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this picture was taken at The Imperial Palace Hotel in 1996. In the behind the is the open rear end of the throne car.
I haven't taken more photos of the throne car cause I disliked the car and had just a limited amount of colourslide-film to use. It was the pre-Digital-era :rolleyes:
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To me it is a close second on the ugliest model "J" list ~
Second only to the Father Divine "Throne Car"
But that's just my opinion~
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O'Quinn owned BOTH cars !
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It is my understanding that Mr.Roxas has restored the Throne car for the O'Quinn collection but Mr.O'Quinn was killed in a tragic accident and I do not know what the status now is on this monstrosity.
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This is exactly what I was talking about .
As you can see the throne would rise.
It would seem that this car was only used for a very short time by Father Divine.
Possibly less than five years or so~
The rear wire wheels were said to be a real issue with all the weight of this auto and 10 + people that would be in his constant inner-circle riding along in the Duesenberg.
It was retired in the "Woodmont" estate carriage house for many decades before, and after, we inspected it in the 1970s.
The carriage house had it's own heat and an in-ground lighted service pit with a heavy steel safety grate on top !
There was also a large fancy apartment above for his driver ,
There were many earlier and later vintage cars in this massive carriage house !
He had an entire collection of great autos housed there!
It is said he often would travel in a large motorcade of six or more autos~
I believe Father Divine passed-away in 1965 ?
He had stated before he died that he would soon return to again join the living.
It is said that his great throne dining chair in the massive "Woodmont" estate dining room still sits empty with his full dinner place setting waiting for him at all Uiversal Peace Mission meals waiting for his return.
So far he has not done so~
Many of his many followers are still waiting for his expected return...
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There was also a vacuum-tube amplified PA system with a microphone and two small Atlas weatherproof Driver-horn speakers that faced downward & outward under the car chassis for the Father to use.
All these systems were still on this car at his grand large mansion estate "Woodmont" in Gladwyne PA just outside Philadelphia when my Father & I inspected this car in the early 1970s ! Mother Divine actually showed us the car personally !
Mother Divine, who is still today very much alive as she was decades younger than the Father, could confirm all of this info. on this car~
He was an African-American~
She is a white woman.
Mother Divine is a very kind & nice lady to speak with.
She is still living at "Woodmont " today in 2010 !
By the way~
That Duesey was NOT the only great auto that we saw in the"Woodmont" carriage house~ There were many more !!!
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bill powell wrote: when something broke, like the hydraulics in the roof, it was eliminated.
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After it was retired parts were robbed off it to put on other cars. For instance, the chassis oil pump is a solid casting which was never a functional pump.
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The photos in one of my Blackhawk Collection Expo Sale catalogs show it with the rear end open and it doesn't look like there IS a top there.
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I like the Keels and Wheels show. If they keep selling land and the condos continue to crowd in we may run out of a show.
You can raise the hood on the throne car and way down inside the engine compartment is the original Duesenberg cast firewall and cowl lip.
They apparently used a chassis, built a wide body, and slid it down over the stock width car cause the steering wheel is ten inches from the lleft door. On either side of the dash are spacers out to the doors. It has a stock width rear seat with padded spacers out to the body. The jump seat behind the divider window is over six feet wide. It had floor heaters that have been updated to squirrel cage blowers.
On one of the father divine websites was a description of how it originally envisioned. White leather and gold interior. the description made it sound like a persian cat house.
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It still has two of the re-enforced seventeen inch wheels, and has a full set of seventeen inch chrome 'safety' wheels. The re-enforced wheels have a round plate welded to the backside of the rim, and some ultra heavy duty spokes welded between the existing spokes. The round plate is bolted to probably a modified brake drum, and it spaces the wheel out to far to use the Duesenberg center nut. For display and minimum driving the chrome wheels would probably work. The re-enforced wheels are way too ugly to display, so it would probably need full wheel covers to be pretty.
We started the car a few months ago just to see if it would run.
The splice where the frame was lengthened is under the front doors.
I'm interested in the trunk and trunk mount shown in the profile photo. anyone know about it?
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Pictures do not do it justice. That thing had to be at least 8 feet tall. It's more like a bus with a long hood. It was not pretty, more like 'brooding'.
Also on display was Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson's JN Berline (Rollston/Bohman & Schwartz). I believe he bought that car new as well, but talk about two vastly different african-american owned cars...
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Not having a first-born son to trade for a copy of Fred Roe's book-- --I got my info from the Blackhawk Collection expo catalog for 1999: "This car is still in original condition throughout from 1937." The car looks no different in the photos in the catalog than in the ones from O'Quinn's Greg posted.
On the other hand, the catalog also spells late collector Sergio Franchi's last name as "Frankie." :rolleyes: So I'll go with Roe, too.
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A saw a small amount of cracking paint. The lighting was too poor to really make a judgment on the bright work although I had the impression it was very nice. The interior is very presentable but doesn't appear "new". I didn't hear it run and didn't think to ask about the mechanical condition.
I'm sure there other ACD members that can answer better than I as to the originality of the car. If it is original it is very well preserved.
The car gives the impression of great bulk particularly at the rear. The coachwork seems disproportionally wide when compared to the rear track. It stood taller than all of the other cars in the room except for one Pre-WWI Mercedes.
I don't have any information about the eventual plans for the car. There are so many fabulous vehicles in Mr. O'Quinn's collection it is very hard to focus on just one.
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I was struck with the unbelievable width of the rear track versus the width of the coachwork. It is a very unusual car by any standards.
We had a break-in at our home this week so the only camera I had available was very low quality. I converted the photos to black and white for better contrast and to compensate for the poor lighting.
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Read Randy's post.Bill Hummel wrote: I just got back from Las Vegas, and I was at the Imperial Palace Car Collection on Tuesday. The Father Devine Duesenberg was not on display.
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