Word: duesenbergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes. They are not like the Mercedes and the Rolls-Royce, which are (relatively) mass manufactured and as common in some moneyed turf as hogs in a holler. Whereas most toys for the rich look as if they had all come from the same department store, a replicated Duesenberg SSJ or Auburn 866 boat-tail speedster is not something your dentist or psychiatrist is apt to call...
...only thing that will turn a man's head faster than a passing pretty girl is an antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
Farquarson telephones a middle-aged detective named Arnold Magnuson. A widower, full of regretful guilt and woe, Magnuson wants to atone for his life by catching the criminal. He roars about Chicago and its suburbs in an antique Duesenberg, arriving at the scene of murder after murder too late to do anything except get blood on his shoes. Over and over again, and very well, the author describes the Duesenberg, describes the rush of night driving, the murders, the blood and Magnuson's florid mental state...
...auction in Boca Raton, Fla., recently, a man from Lake George, N.Y., bought his daughter an unusual present for $37,000: the "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" car, complete with wings and propeller, used in the 1968 Walt Disney movie. In Indianapolis last year, Greta Garbo's old Duesenberg brought $95,000. In Hollywood, TV Producer Burt Sugarman recently picked up a unique addition to his collection of classic cars: a 1927 Brewster Stratford Rolls. The price...
...comb Ali's hair; assorted grim-faced Muslim operatives; imperturbable Angelo Dundee, his trainer since 1960; Norman Mailer; Actor Burt Lancaster; Cash Clay Sr. in red velvet bellbottoms, red satin shirt and a plantation straw hat; the Major, a high roller from Philly who tools around in a Duesenberg; and Brother Rahaman Ali (formerly known as Rudolph Valentino Clay), his yeah...