Equipment
Dual cloth covered sidemounts, dual Lorraine remote spotlights, chrome wire wheels, whitewalls, Pilot Rays, flexible exhaust head pipes, screen hood side vents. Supercharger is not original. Good older paint, chrome and upholstery. An older show quality rebody that has been toured with unavoidable nicks and blemishes. Details are aged and need attention. Still an eye catcher, though. A loose replica of the Walton Speedster started for Harrahs and eventually finished with modifications designed by Herb Newport to the tail for Ray Lutgert. 2159 is the firewall number; no number is evident on the frame. ACD Certified Level Two and CCCA recognized as a Modified Classic.
Market commentary
Recognized as what it is, an attempt to replicate a widely admired boattail speedster body with detail modifications to improve its balance and proportion, by CCCA and ACD, this supercharged Duesenberg was bid to $390,000 at Worldwides Houston sale in 2010 and brought significantly more here at St. Johns. The colors date its restorations completion and the whole car is probably aged, and shown, enough as it was presented here to warrant a major re restoration and more contemporary color palette. The seller should be very satisfied with the price RM was able to bring for it.