Unbelievable Duesenburg

Yes it was !!

 

This is a must visit museum every time I’m in San Diego. FYI, the building is actually on the old Carlsbad Raceway site.

 

You are correct Dennis. The building is in the development now called Carlsbad Raceway Park. I have toured the museum and seen the Duesenburg. It is stunning. Being a modeler, and a machinist, I was totally impressed with the tooling and patterns the museum got with the car. The hardwood bucks the body panels were hammered on are gorgeous, furniture quality on their finish.

 

The museum is a must see , and if you go make sure to do the machine shop tour in the back.

 

The fact is with his skills he could have bought a very rough but complete "real" Duesenberg dual cowl phaeton and restored it to prize winning condition with the same 15,000 hours. But his p***ion is not real cars. Is there any information on the Gar Wood boat he was building with the Liberty V-12 engine?

 

Last I saw the boat it was about half finished, but that was a few years ago.

 

Amazing. It's great that rue craftsmanship is still prized.

 

I just saw this museum last year....VERY COOL!

 

Loved the video of the engine running.The soundtrack ain`t no slouch either.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Amazing work!

 

Are you freaking kidding me? I can’t even get that detail on my 1/1 car

 

I built a Monogram Duesenberg when I was a kid...…

 

Nice but I know of a guy in Switzerland has made some scale models from scratch and his work has been Rolex quality.

 

Pictures??????

 

while nowhere near as detailed,I repainted the 1/18 Gary Cooper SSJ in similar colors.Not too bad!

 

If you guys ever get a chance to go to 'Cabin Fever' up in York PA, held in January ever year you'll find a huge exposition with bunches of stuff like the Duesenberg, all handcrafted museum quality pieces. Theres different sections for trains (with huge mul***racked layout), boats (they make a big pond for them to putt around in), airplanes, toys, steam powered stuff and they recently added a huge pile of dirt to fuk with. One of my favorites is a blown hemi running on nitro, you can hold it in two hands, he made everything in it. When he lites it off hundreds gather to watch, you can see the exhuast 30' in air when he whacks the throttle. Its a three day event, you got to see it to believe it.

 

Go here and be TOTALLY FRIGGIN' AMAZED with this Continental (NOT Lincoln) model....your mind WILL be blown....
http://forums.aaca.org/topic/145354-construction-of-a-continental-mark-ii-model-scale-112/

 

OJ, Cabin Fever moved to Lebanon County fairgrounds just off rt. 72 in Lebanon, Pa. It is alive and well and I go every year. The remote control construction equipment is getting totally insane. They build roads, lay pipe, build bridges. John, one of my biggest regrets of not getting to the Calif. meet was not getting to see the Craftmanship Museum. I have lost many hours on their website.