Not to blow our own horn too hard, but here in the U.S.A., some of our most beloved marques have turned out some of the most iconic vehicles of all time. Ford has given us the ultimate pony car, the ...
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Hollywood royalty on four wheels: The story of the Duesenberg SSJ
Only two Duesenberg SSJs were built (1935–36) for stars Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. With a 420-cu-in supercharged straight-eight rated around 400 hp, it could top 130+ mph. Cooper’s example sold for ...
Produced in just two examples, the SSJ is still a mind-blowing combination of elegance and performance nearly ninety years after it was unleashed on public roads. Follow us: These days, if you ask ...
Four-hundred horsepower is impressive today. It was incredible in 1935, when the dying Duesenberg company built two "short" wheelbase (125 inches all the same) Duesenberg J chassis with specially ...
View post: Wayfair Has a Metal Storage Shed on Sale for 60% Off 1935-duesenberg-ssj-35-1-jpg All images copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault. 1935-duesenberg-ssj-07 ...
UPDATE 8/27/2018: We drove this car in 2016. The next time we saw it—at the Gooding & Company sale in Monterey, California, in August 2018—it hammered sold for $22 million, making history not only as ...
I was a precocious child. But like a corgi in a tuxedo, it didn’t always bring me joy or respect on the street. I talked early, albeit with a sibilance that conflated my Ls and Rs with Ws. I read ...
Gary Cooper’s 1935 Duesenberg “SSJ,” chassis number 2594 with engine J-563, is one of the most extraordinary cars of the Classic era, with a 400-horsepower supercharged straight-eight engine placed in ...
An eye-watering $22,000,000. That’s the sum hammered at the Gooding & Co. auction during the 2018 Monterey Car Week for this 1935 Duesenberg SSJ, making it the most expensive American car ever sold at ...
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The rare 1935 Duesenberg SSJ recently earned the title of most expensive American car to ever be sold at auction. It sold for an astounding $22,000,000 at the Gooding & Company auction during the 2018 ...
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