It was a highly revolutionary car (priced at $8,300), and the Duesenberg brothers wanted to demonstrate its qualities by making it run the equivalent of the breadth of the continent : 3,000 miles (4,828 km), on the track at Indianapolis. The car was re-filled with water and fuel and the drivers [...]

The Model T, later to become so famous as the means of ‘motorising America’, was introduced in 1908, and stayed in production up to 1927. Exactly 15,007,033 vehicles were built-a record beaten only by Volkswagen after the Second World War over forty years later.
Many books have been written about the [...]

Ford Model K
Ford Model T
Ford V8 Model 18
The car that was to became the most popular make in the world, introducing the concept of mass production, started life officially in 1903. A company was formed by a group of 12 men led by Henry Ford. The 12 included the Dodge brothers, [...]

Du Pont Touring
Car : Du Pont Touring
Year : 1921
Engine : 4 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke :100.01?130.17 mm
Cylinder capacity : 4090 cc
Brake horse power : 60
Maximum speed : 70 mph
Wheelbase : 10 ft 4 ins (3.14 m)
Suspension : front and back :semi-elliptic leaf- springs
The American public came to know of Du [...]

Sadly, the end came at last for Duesenberg. In 1937 cord ran into difficulties with Auburn, and the Cord Corporation went into liquidation. Among the various attempts to revive this famous name, the efforts of Fritz Duesenberg, August’s son, in 1966, should not go unrecorded. He had solid financial backing, and his aim was to [...]

On the outbreak of war Duesenberg began contributing to the War-effort by working for the American Army and Air Force. He continued to produce 4-cylinder engines, which meanwhile had acquired 4 valves per cylinder and two camshafts (the Air Force used it in training aircraft). At the same time they introduced the 16-cylinder Bugatti, which [...]

Duesenberg Model A
Duesenberg J
Duesenberg SJ
In a country where more people drove cars than anywhere else, and where hundreds of firms were making brave but often unsuccessful innovations, Duesenberg remains a special case and will always be unique. Super-luxurious, super-fast, gigantic, yet highly manoeuvrable, heavy, yet requiring the minimum of effort to steer, these cars created [...]

Dodge Four
Car : Dodge Four
Year : 1915
Engine : 4 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke :98.4?114.3 mm
Cylinder capacity : 3478 cc
Gears : 3 forward
Brake horse power :35
Maximum speed : 45 mph
Wheelbase : 9 ft 2ins (3.25 m)
Suspension : front :semi-elliptic leaf- springs ; back: ? elliptic leaf- springs
Dodge was the creation [...]

Detroit Electric
Car : Detroit Electric
Year : 1918
Engine : electric, beneath the floor
Gears : 5 forward
Brake horse power :3
Maximum speed : 25 mph
Wheelbase : 8 ft 4ins (2.54 m)
Suspension : front :semi-elliptic leaf- springs ; back: elliptic leaf- springs
It may seem surprising that at a time when there was no energy problem, a market for electric [...]