Duesenbergs Legacy From An Auto Racing Team
If there is one automobile that involves fantasy of vintage luxury and fame it’s the Duesenberg from which the phrase “It’s a Doozie” was born and derived. What are the origins and background of this most regal form of transportation?
The Duesenberg’s were designed by race car builders and hard running pioneers August and Fred Duesenberg. Indeed the great Duesenberg J series cars reflected the pair of brother’s racing backgrounds. Duesenberg J models incorporated such advanced features of their time as straight eight engines, double overhead camshafts and even four valves for each cylinder - which was indeed a power seeking as well as expensive innovation for its day.
Sure there had been vehicles on the racing circuit and circuits that had used “in-line” 8 cylinder motors but these were largely test and experimental vehicles subject only the tinkering of automotive mechanics and their racing masters. Highly expensive and more temperamental, it was the American Duesenberg Motor Company that served to introduce this powerful automotive industry innovation to production vehicles. It was the Dusenberg Motor Company that introduced the “8″ to America not Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company.
Duesenberg took great effort and detail to make extensive used of the then exotic and advanced high tech metal aluminum in its Model A’s engine. Aluminum was by then virtually unknown in the automobile industries - being in the domain of high tech and advanced aircraft industry domain. The uses of aluminum in the Model A overall mechanical detail included the power train’s piston as well as intake manifolds. The Model A weighed in at approximately a hefty 3700 pounds or 1700 kilograms gross vehicle weight overall. Horsepower was then rated at a generous and racy 87 horse power with a total and full engine size displacement of 4.3 litres. Two valves in the cylinder were actuated by a single overhead camshaft driven by bevel gears with its vertical shaft being at the front of the engine itself.
Yet as is always interesting in the automotive market it was a business people along with marketing staff that brought the wonderful auto creation to fruition not off all things the racing pair of the Duesenberg brothers. Cord immediately initiated the design of the Model J super car. The rest as they say is simply history and historical fact of the future mainstay of the American economy - the automotive industry.
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