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Duesenberg SJ Boattail Speedster
AB JENKINS -
Race engine - Modification
400 HP SPECIALE engine
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Data:
Engine:
8 cylinders Special row engine with compressor
Capacity:
6.882 ccm
Power:
400 HP by Special equipment like e.g.-double
carburetor plant and changed, double intake pipes.
Maximum speed: approx.
240 km/h |
With
a vehicle in 21 days 28.000 km were put back. A route car ran 5.000km non stop. One let the engine run even with tire change and tank stop.
Four-valve technology,
over-head camshafts and halfspherical combustion chambers documented the high technical requirement-technical
facts with most automobile manufacturers only into the sixty
years again were already at that time invented.
The leader framework proved a dimension, which is still common today with a height of 20,6 cm - however in the truck building. The bodies came mostly from Murphy, roll clay/tone or La Grande. In addition, European Karossiers such as Graber, Vanden Plas, Figoni or Franay supplied those
the bodies was desire superstructures often changed or modernized because this
was more favorable to acquire than a completely new vehicle.
Less wealthy people like aluminium Capone were content with
a Cadillac or a Packard.
The SJ of models regularly reached thereby maximum speeds of over
200 km/h. Only 36 vehicles were built with this SJ compressor
engine.
Still today there is the common formulation in the USA
"It's A Duesie" as a sign of highest acknowledgment.
This
Duesenberg shown here is a SJ Boattail - Speedster into completely
special modification in accordance with J. L Elbert`s 1951 published standard work "Duesenberg the mightiest american motorcar" has this car also the original engine, with which he was originally delivered as "Le baron convertible sedan"
This
vehicle was participant of some competitions, whereby it was very often praised
as
a winner.
Changing the body was
by the way with exclusiv- car manufacturers a common
modernization measure.
| Thus e.g. Ettore Bugatti changed the body with one
the magnificent Bugatti Royale in one period of approx. 10 years three times. |
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For collectors, lovers and investors this car is a very
good investment. |
| After
1935 reached Duesenberg, to which also a wind-slippery streamline form body was given
AB JENKINS with an engine GET down
the speed world record with 245,432 km/h, |
| History over achievement and
the special engine modification was only discovered on further
searches. |
| Into these Spezification had now also
the "Catout Exhaust system" as exhaust system to be built
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| The enormous strength
of the engine can unfold unhindered thereby. The sound of the car with
opened exhaust corresponds however then to the resentment of an airplane
of radial engine and it is therefore recommended to use this exhaust flaps
only outside of the town center. |
| Us
world-wide not one car car of the mark Duesenberg with this very
rarely inserted engines equipment is well-known. |
| Even the imposante and legendary BUGATTI ROYALE,
by which only 6 copies were finished, had
only 300PS. |
|
Today still 370 vehicles of this mark exist and with
approximately 100 vehicles to changes of body were made after our
searches. |
We made all descriptions
without guarantee.
The car is after book - informations nevertheless 70 years
old. Unfortunately it wasn´t possible for us, to find out further
provable details. |
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ON REQUEST
| | DUESENBERG was created 1920 by the brothers Fred and August Duesenberg, the sons of a German immigrant made of lip. The initially modest sales impacts were increased
by publicity-pregnant reliability test.
Some racer sequence contributed likewise to the image increase
But the final break-through came with the model J. The 1928 presented model J exhibited a 6,9l eight-cylinder row engine, whose achievement was indicated as 265 HP.
The instrument panel from polished aluminum was equipped already at that time with pressure indication for the brake assembly, 150 mph speedometers 240 km/h and even an altimeter.
Guiding headlights
provided during fast night travels for a better view in curves
and thus for increased security of the passengers.
Lucky owners such as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, William Randolph Hearst, king Alfonso XIII. of Spain, Howard Hughes or the chewing rubber king Philip K. Wrigley were to afford able a Duesenberg.
However Duesenberg set the high point of the American automotive manufacture 1932 with the SJ model offered here. The SJ was the compressor execution of the J and carried out no less than 320 HP. The German leading vehicle Mercedes Benz 540 K created exactly half, normal car like the OPEL Olympia only about a tenth of this engine performance.
This superlative in technology, achievement, price and clientele let the Duesenberg of automobiles become lifetimes
the legend and desired rare piece.
It belongs to much luck to it a Duesenberg in the original
to see. Only with very hochkaraetigen meetings such
secret treasures automobiles of cultural property can be still admired
For example in Pebble Beach "Concourse de Elegance" etc.
An
imposante feature by a masterful body design.
| Even
with the largest and most well-known competitions, like with "Concours d` Elegance" meetings,
is this vehicle an ever gladly seen guest.
|
| One kept the car, changed only the structure and such an optically completely new car and very much money had saved. |
| Duesenberg
belongs to the completely large names and rare pieces
of automobile history. |
| We are proud on it, our customer a Duesenberg SJ
Special to be able to offer and thus a unique rare piece for the purchase. |
| to our opinion the body Design and the
engine of this car were modified later. Over the time of the
modifications we can´t give concrete statements because of the
extensive search we haven´t seek susceptible proof documents. |
| It became custom-made
from a LeBaron Convertible a rassiger Boattail
Speedster, which was optically very similar to the record car of
STARTING FROM JENKINS.
A term of luxury and sportyness! Also
the engine was tuning, like the record car. |
|
A double carburetor plant in connection with changed intake pipes
provided now for the unsurpassed, grandios engine achievement of
400HP. |
| Thus the driver of the car can during
strammer travel two controllable exhaust cut-outs open and to the engine
thereby to the better exhaust disposal help. |
| This is nevertheless
the strongest engine of the vintage time for
a passenger vehicle. |
| When Duesenberg always closed 1937 its work gates, altogether 470 vehicles of the J and SJ series had been manufactured. |
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