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Formerly the property of Reverend Major Jealous "Father" Divine, AKA "The Messenger", the penultimate Duesenberg chassis and engine and the largest example ever built 1937 Duesenberg Model J 'Throne Car' Limousine Landaulet Coachwork by Bohman & Schw...

Quail Lodge Sale
18.08.2011 - 19.08.2011
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Zuschlagspreis:
400.000 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 420

Formerly the property of Reverend Major Jealous "Father" Divine, AKA "The Messenger", the penultimate Duesenberg chassis and engine and the largest example ever built 1937 Duesenberg Model J 'Throne Car' Limousine Landaulet Coachwork by Bohman & Schw...

Quail Lodge Sale
18.08.2011 - 19.08.2011
Schätzpreis
0 $
Zuschlagspreis:
400.000 $
Beschreibung:

Model J Duesenbergs were built for the elite. In both their concept and their cost they were inherently accessible only to the most successful, influential and powerful. It was inherent in E.L. Cord's positioning of the Model J with understated advertising showing a sparsely drawn black and white sketch of a gentleman, immaculately attired in crisp white, on the deck of his yacht with the only copy being "He drives a Duesenberg." The Model J's specifications were second-to-none: 420 cubic inches, 265 horsepower, eight cylinders, 32 valves, dual overhead camshafts, choice of 142½" and 153½" wheelbase chassis. When introduced in late 1928 at the 1929 New York Auto Salon the Model J was twice as powerful as its next closest American competitor. So was its price: $8,500 for the bare chassis – because it was assumed that the discerning Duesenberg Model J buyer would commission one of the day's fine coachbuilders to clothe it in individual style, equipment and colors. E.L. Cord gave Fred Duesenberg the freedom to design anything he wanted, as long as it would be described in superlatives, using the finest materials and methods. Extensive use of aluminum kept weight low. Rubber mounts were employed for the engine and elsewhere throughout the chassis to isolate vibrations from the passengers. Aluminum castings were highly polished and cast iron was painted, giving the Model J's engine a level of presentation that most cars' exteriors could only dream of. From the Model J's earliest days its buyers' roster read like the society, finance and entertainment pages of newspapers. Dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, band leader Paul Whiteman, Gary Cooper, Joe E. Brown, William Randolph Hearst, his companion Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Tommy Manville, Jr., Cornelius Whitney, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, John Wanamaker, Philip Wrigley, Archduke Franz Josef of Austria and Col. Jacob Schick all drove Duesenbergs. As the Roaring Twenties slumped into the Depression years buyers for Duesenberg's Model J became fewer and farther between. The great coachbuilders like Murphy, Willoughby, Rollston, LeBaron, Brunn and others also withered in the absence of new work. In Pasadena, California Walter M. Murphy company, builder of more Model J coachwork than any other, liquidated in 1932. Its equipment and some of its most skilled craftsmen coalesced into a new company under Chris Bohman and Maurice Schwartz, Bohman & Schwartz. One of the company's first commissions was a modern Town Cabriolet body on a 1935 Model J chassis for candy heiress Ethel Mars In addition to having a raked, vee-shaped radiator shell, designer J. Herbert Newport created streamlined sidemount spare covers that became the car's signature design feature. A few years later Bohman & Schwartz got another commission which Newport designed with the same sweeping enclosed sidemount covers. The order came from "John the Baptist" and included many unique specifications like star quarter windows, a crescent moon-shaped rear window, star-studded white headliner, a hydraulically operated folding landaulet and an elevating rear seat. It was for the Rev. M.J. Divine, "Father Divine," and it is one of the most famous of all Duesenbergs as well as the penultimate Duesenberg Model J delivered. Father Divine was a charismatic preacher who founded the Universal Peace Mission Movement in the 1910's. Controversial throughout his life, Father Divine built a successful movement on messages of honesty, freedom from vices, sexual abstinence and equal treatment for all. The Universal Peace Missions provided lodging, food and a steady diet of Father Divine's messages in return for followers' turning over all worldly possessions and earnings to the Mission. Followers were welcomed from all races and treated equally. Father Divine was an early and successful exponent of the equal rights movement that would culminate in the Sixties. While his followers labored in support of the Mission Father Divine

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 420
Auktion:
Datum:
18.08.2011 - 19.08.2011
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
Carmel, Quail Lodge Quail Lodge's West Field 7000 Valley Greens Drive (at Rancho San Carlos Rd) Carmel CA 93923 Tel: +1 415 391 4000 Fax : +1 415 391 4040 motors.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Model J Duesenbergs were built for the elite. In both their concept and their cost they were inherently accessible only to the most successful, influential and powerful. It was inherent in E.L. Cord's positioning of the Model J with understated advertising showing a sparsely drawn black and white sketch of a gentleman, immaculately attired in crisp white, on the deck of his yacht with the only copy being "He drives a Duesenberg." The Model J's specifications were second-to-none: 420 cubic inches, 265 horsepower, eight cylinders, 32 valves, dual overhead camshafts, choice of 142½" and 153½" wheelbase chassis. When introduced in late 1928 at the 1929 New York Auto Salon the Model J was twice as powerful as its next closest American competitor. So was its price: $8,500 for the bare chassis – because it was assumed that the discerning Duesenberg Model J buyer would commission one of the day's fine coachbuilders to clothe it in individual style, equipment and colors. E.L. Cord gave Fred Duesenberg the freedom to design anything he wanted, as long as it would be described in superlatives, using the finest materials and methods. Extensive use of aluminum kept weight low. Rubber mounts were employed for the engine and elsewhere throughout the chassis to isolate vibrations from the passengers. Aluminum castings were highly polished and cast iron was painted, giving the Model J's engine a level of presentation that most cars' exteriors could only dream of. From the Model J's earliest days its buyers' roster read like the society, finance and entertainment pages of newspapers. Dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, band leader Paul Whiteman, Gary Cooper, Joe E. Brown, William Randolph Hearst, his companion Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Tommy Manville, Jr., Cornelius Whitney, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, John Wanamaker, Philip Wrigley, Archduke Franz Josef of Austria and Col. Jacob Schick all drove Duesenbergs. As the Roaring Twenties slumped into the Depression years buyers for Duesenberg's Model J became fewer and farther between. The great coachbuilders like Murphy, Willoughby, Rollston, LeBaron, Brunn and others also withered in the absence of new work. In Pasadena, California Walter M. Murphy company, builder of more Model J coachwork than any other, liquidated in 1932. Its equipment and some of its most skilled craftsmen coalesced into a new company under Chris Bohman and Maurice Schwartz, Bohman & Schwartz. One of the company's first commissions was a modern Town Cabriolet body on a 1935 Model J chassis for candy heiress Ethel Mars In addition to having a raked, vee-shaped radiator shell, designer J. Herbert Newport created streamlined sidemount spare covers that became the car's signature design feature. A few years later Bohman & Schwartz got another commission which Newport designed with the same sweeping enclosed sidemount covers. The order came from "John the Baptist" and included many unique specifications like star quarter windows, a crescent moon-shaped rear window, star-studded white headliner, a hydraulically operated folding landaulet and an elevating rear seat. It was for the Rev. M.J. Divine, "Father Divine," and it is one of the most famous of all Duesenbergs as well as the penultimate Duesenberg Model J delivered. Father Divine was a charismatic preacher who founded the Universal Peace Mission Movement in the 1910's. Controversial throughout his life, Father Divine built a successful movement on messages of honesty, freedom from vices, sexual abstinence and equal treatment for all. The Universal Peace Missions provided lodging, food and a steady diet of Father Divine's messages in return for followers' turning over all worldly possessions and earnings to the Mission. Followers were welcomed from all races and treated equally. Father Divine was an early and successful exponent of the equal rights movement that would culminate in the Sixties. While his followers labored in support of the Mission Father Divine

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 420
Auktion:
Datum:
18.08.2011 - 19.08.2011
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
Carmel, Quail Lodge Quail Lodge's West Field 7000 Valley Greens Drive (at Rancho San Carlos Rd) Carmel CA 93923 Tel: +1 415 391 4000 Fax : +1 415 391 4040 motors.us@bonhams.com
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