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We are very pleased to announce that Racemaker Press, has very kindly decided to share some of their wonderful racing photos here on The Old Motor. Well known author and vintage racer Joe Freeman, who runs Racemaker, has worked very hard over a long period of time to assemble one of the foremost collections of racing…
A Nathan Lazarnick photo, from the Fred Roe Collection, showing us the incomparable Tommy Milton in a Duesenberg 300 c.i. straight eight racing car. The photo was taken on the Sheepshead Bay board track, during non-competitive speed trials during 1919. Fred Roe collection photo courtesy of Racemaker Press.
Fred Duesenberg and Harry Miller, battled it out on the nation’s tracks with the racing cars that their respective companies designed and built throughout most of the 1920s. In 1930 the Richfield Oil Co. apparently brought the two back together for these Richfield promotional photos taken in Los Angeles, California. With Duesenberg and Miller is…
This photo shows a Model J Duesenberg demonstrator in Chicago, probably during 1929 as it is the lowest number car, 2125 with the first production engine, J101, which has survived. Fred Duesenberg is showing the car to movie star Dorothy Sebastian. It is a short wheel-base, pleas-ing LeBaron dual cowl phaeton which was the most prevalent…
This giant aircraft engine was the result of a developmental contract awarded to the Duesenberg Brothers in 1918 by the US government to build the largest and most powerful aero engine possible. The pair had previously created a V-12 engine along with a four-cylinder walking beam airplane engine quite similar to the earlier Duesenberg 16-valve auto racing…
Today’s feature image is a Tudor style Parkmoor Sandwich shop, a drive-in with car hop service and a dining room. The parking lot is filled with mid-to-late 1930s cars and includes a rarity, a Duesenberg Model “J” phaeton with outside exhaust pipes, second in line on the far-left. This particular Parkmoor Sandwich shop, located on Big…
This refined Model “J” Duesenberg was fitted with an attractive style of convertible victoria coachwork that was offered by the Rollston Company of New York City. The coachbuilder is known for having built some of the most outstanding custom designs during the classic era. Only the finest of materials were used in the construction of one of…
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