Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 2016 C-D Cars

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Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 2016 C-D Cars Photos and Stories.

Concours d'Elegance, Car Show, 2016-08-21, Pebble Beach Lodge, Pebble Beach, California, US

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Cadillac 452A Fleetwood Imperial Limousine 1931
Cadillac introduced its new V-16 in January of 1930. Displacing 452 cubic-inches, hence the 452 designation, it developed around 185 bhp. More than 70 body styles were available at prices ranging from $5,800 to over $7,500. This seven-passenger Imperial Limousine is one of 438 built and was first sold to a wealthy family in New Jersey where it stayed for the next 50 years. It features jump seats neatly folded into the division glass partition and interior panels of walnut with burl wood and rosewood inlay. There are silk shades on all the rear windows, an intercom, a fitted umbrella and smoking cases with a built-in clock and mirror. With the division glass in position, it becomes a formal chauffeur-driven car and with the division glass lowered, a family sedan. The car is finished in Mulberry Maroon and Black, with Gold-Bronze striping.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Cadillac 452A Fleetwood Imperial Limousine 1931

Cadillac Series 90 Fleetwood Seven Passenger Imperial Cabriolet 1937

Cadillac Series 90 Fleetwood Seven Passenger Imperial Cabriolet 1937
Annual production of the V-16–engined Cadillac Series 90 was never large and in 1936, after Cadillac reorganized its model names, only 52 cars were sold including around 25 limousines. This Imperial Cabriolet features the Fisher-designed Turret Top, an all-steel roof introduced in 1936. With a wheelbase of 154 inches and a curb weight of around 6,600 pounds, these are among the largest cars ever to be in standard production in the United States. In 1937 Cadillac launched its second series V-16, featuring a new V-shaped radiator and redesigned L-Head engine. Sales of the new model improved slightly; around 500 cars were made before production ended in December 1940. This Imperial Cabriolet was first owned by MGM movie mogul Eddie Mannix, and it was found on the MGM studio back lot in the 1960s in very good original condition.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Cord 810 Westchester Sedan 1936
Errett Lobban Cord’s ultimate creations were the Cord 810 and the supercharged 812, both of which featured a front-wheel-drive system pioneered by Harry Miller on the racing circuit. The Cord 810 debuted to rapturous reviews in November 1935, and an example eventually made its way into the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This Cord has a 125 bhp Lycoming V8 engine combined with a Bendix 4-speed pre-selector gearbox tucked inside designer Gordon Buehrig’s iconic “coffin-nose” body. Created for a General Motors styling competition, the body design was way ahead of its time and failed to impress styling boss Harley Earl, but it was admired by Buehrig’s fellow designers as well as E. L. Cord. Sadly, although the 810 caught the imagination of the press, Cord was in financial trouble and only 3,000 of the 810/812 series were built before production came to a halt in August 1937.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Cord 810 Westchester Sedan 1936

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1938

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1938

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1939

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1939

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1939
Henri Chapron built this cabriolet on the second series of the D8-120, which had a lower and lighter chassis than its predecessor. The D8-120 has an in-line, 8-cylinder, 4.5-liter engine with overhead valves mated to the 4-Speed Cotal electronic gearbox. The car’s early history was colorful: it was appropriated by a French general of the Vichy government who was known to be a German collaborator. In 1946, the general sent the car to California but was unable to obtain a visa for himself, so he went to Argentina and sold the car to RKO Studios. The Delage was featured in several films, including the 1951 classic An American in Paris, in which Gene Kelly and Nina Foch are chauffeured around Paris. The producers sent the car to Chapron to make a few changes, including repainting it. In 1955, it was acquired by Thol “Si” Simonson, the RKO special effects artist who made George Reeves fly in the Adventures of Superman. Mr. Simonson sold the Delage to its current owner in 1987.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delage D8-120 Chapron Cabriolet 1939

Delahaye 135 Chapron Coupe des Alpes 1937
The Delahaye Type 135 was first seen at the Paris Salon de l’Automobile in October 1935. It achieved enormous success in competition, winning its class in the International Alpine Trials in 1935, Monte Carlo Rally in 1937 and 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1938. This chassis (47545) was sent to Henri Chapron in May 1937 and was the second in a series of seven Type 135 roadsters to be bodied by him. It was bought by Monsieur Cyriel Depery, who became a celebrated member of the French Resistance during World War II. After France’s liberation, in August 1944, the car was driven by many well-known resistance fighters in a victory parade in Depery’s hometown of Annecy. In 1951 the car was sold and in 1960 it was put away in storage for several years. The next owner returned it to the road and drove it for the next 53 years. The engine was replaced at some time point, but its current owner found and fitted a correct 18CV engine to the car and it has now been fully restored.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 Chapron Coupe des Alpes 1937

Delahaye 135 Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Coupe 1936
This Delahaye 135 Coupe is one of three surviving short-chassis coupés by Figoni & Falaschi. It was built for M. Jeancart of Paris, owner of the first teardrop Talbot-Lagos created by the same coachbuilders. Delahaye built around 30 of these 8-foot, 8-inch "Competition Court" chassis, and they were sold only to the company’s favorite customers. After the war, this car was owned by the sales manager for Delahaye and founder of Club Delahaye, Jean-Pierre Barnard, and later by the 1930s film star Dolores del Río. When Yoshiyuki Hayashi of Japan owned the car in the 1980s, he commissioned Phil Hill’s company, Hill & Vaughn, to restore the car, and it was later awarded First in Class at Pebble Beach. It last appeared at Pebble Beach in 2006 when it was featured on the official poster.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Coupe 1936

Delahaye 135 M Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1937
The dramatic lines on this Delahaye 135 Cabriolet are based on a Delahaye shown at the 1936 Paris Auto Salon. The design was a collaboration between Joseph Figoni and illustrator Georges Hamel (often "Geo Ham"), who was famous for his racing posters. There is also a suggestion that it was influenced by the early designs of Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, who went on to design many flamboyant cars in the 1950s. This streamlined cabriolet is one of thirteen similar bodies built by Figoni & Falaschi and one of just two cabriolets known to survive with the short wheelbase Competition Court chassis. This car was delivered to a bohemian industrialist in Vienna, Austria, who managed to hide it away during the war years, and it survived in Eastern Europe for an additional 50 years. The car was rediscovered in Czechoslovakia in 1997 and purchased by Jacques “Frenchy” Harguindeguy, who won Best of Show with it at the 2000 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Competition Court Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Competition Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-566 1935 PB 2016
This stylish Figoni & Falaschi cabriolet body (number 566) was first seen on another Delahaye Type 135 chassis at the 1935 Paris Auto Salon, where it was one of the stars of the show. The following year it was also shown at the Concours d’Elegance de l’Auto in Paris. But by 1946, the body had been refitted to a Bugatti Type 43 (chassis 43308) for its then-owner Monsieur Bouvet. Sadly, the original Delahaye chassis was lost shortly after the body swap. The Bugatti with cabriolet was later sold to Lt. Col. Eric Richardson of California and it resided in the United States for the next 39 years. The car was then exported to England where the 566 body was sold to a new owner who incorrectly modified and modernized it. The Perkins family purchased this Delahaye in 2000, and after five years of extensive research with a team of experts in Europe, they identified and restored it
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Competition Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-566 1935 PB 2016

Delahaye 135 M Competition Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-566 1935

Delahaye 135 M Faget-Varnet Cabriolet sn-800745 1948
This 1948 Delahaye 135 M Cabriolet is one of six cars bodied by FagetVarnet in Levallois-Perret, a small suburb of Paris. It is thought to be one of three similar cars that have survived and is the only example with the distinctive “rostre” radiator grille with a pronounced central bar that is echoed in the design of the headlamp trim. The body was built not of wood but through a patented method using aluminum and steel. The cabriolet (chassis 800745) made its first appearance on the Delahaye stand at the 1948 Paris Auto Salon and was later featured on the cover of the magazine Élites Françaises. Most recently it was sold at auction as part of the fascinating Roger Baillon collection of unrestored cars. Baillon purchased the car in 1964 and put it away in his shed—and there it sat until early last year. It has since been restored and this is the first time it has been seen in public.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Faget-Varnet Cabriolet sn-800745 1948

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-800998 1948
In the summer of 1948, Delahaye delivered this 135 M (chassis 800998) to Figoni & Falaschi to build this four-place cabriolet. It is one of only nine remaining examples of the original eighteen “El Glaoui” cabriolets, which were based on the car first built for Thami El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh. All of the cars in this series were similar, but each had slightly differing characteristics. The exterior has distinctive chromed trim that curves up along the rear fenders rather like an Arabic sword. This example features chromed bucket headlamps and a grill based on Figoni’s goutte d’eau (teardrop) coupé. The interior features a clear Lucite steering wheel and dash knobs. The car was brought to the United States in the 1960s by the Marquis Bernard-Alexis Poisson de Menars of New York City, whose coat of arms now appears on the center hub of the steering wheel.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-800998 1948

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938
This Delahaye 135 M is the long wheelbase version of the 135 M cabriolet shown by Figoni & Falaschi at the Paris Auto Salon in 1936. Designed by French motoring artist Geo Ham, this 135 M (chassis 49169) was built by Figoni & Falaschi with a voluptuous body that features completely enclosed wheels with headlights integrated into the fenders and a split windshield that can be folded flat for a rather rakish appearance. The striking Art Deco design was described in the press at the time as “seemingly moulded by the wind itself.” Only ten of these unique Paris Salon Delahaye roadsters were originally constructed by Figoni and just three are known to survive today. This car (chassis 49169) was bought new by a Mr. Fould of Oran, Algeria, and it stayed there for many years. In 1992, it was found virtually complete under an olive tree in a remote farmyard in the Algerian mountains, and it was purchased for the sum of just 60 British pounds.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938

Delahaye 135 M Figoni & Falaschi Roadster sn-49169 1938

Delahaye 135 M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet 1937
This car was ordered by Casimir Jourde, a devotee of streamlined styling and a personal friend of coachbuilder Joseph Figoni. It was one of eleven cars built in the Paris Auto Salon series between 1936 and 1939 and is one of three surviving cars built on the standard wheelbase 135 chassis. In 1939, Jourde had the car shipped to Bombay for his own use and it created quite a stir. Soon after arriving in India, it was acquired by Prince de Berae Mukarran Jah who kept it for many years, but it gradually fell into a serious state of disrepair. In 1982 it was discovered sitting on wooden blocks in a garden shed in Jodhpur. It then went to England to be restored. Peter Mullin purchased the cabriolet after the 2002 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and in 2006 it underwent a full restoration with the guidance of Claude Figoni.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet 1937

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1939
This imposing Delahaye 135 MS “Speciale” is one of only five to have been constructed by Figoni & Falaschi and the only one known to survive. This is one of the last of the great Delahayes built just before the war with a 3.5-liter, overhead valve, straight-6 engine, a Cotal electro-mechanical four-speed gearbox and independent front suspension. It has a distinctive three-position, fully disappearing top that can also be fixed as a landaulet when half open. It was built for Madame Lucienne d’Hotelle, better known as the singer “La Môme Moineau,” one of the most famous women in France in the 1930s and the wife of Félix Benítez Rexach, one of the richest men in the country. This unique automobile has spent its entire life in Europe; this is the first time it has been shown in the United States.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 1939

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet Speciale 1939

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet Speciale 1939

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Coupe sn-60112 1938
This 1938 Delahaye (chassis 60112) is equipped with a desirable racing specification 160 bhp MS engine and coachwork by Figoni & Falaschi. The car was first displayed by the coachbuilders on their stand at the 1938 Paris Auto Salon. Its first owner is not known but it was kept safely hidden in occupied France; it was not discovered until 1968 in a field near Toulon, located in the southern part of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea. Following a meticulous restoration between 1986 and 1987, the car was acquired by the Rosso Bianco Collection in Aschaffenburg, Germany, where it remained until 2006, when it was purchased by the American collector John O’Quinn. He commissioned a further restoration by Atelier Automobiles Anciennes Dominique Tessier with the help of Claude Figoni.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Coupe sn-60112 1938

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948
This Figoni & Falaschi–bodied Type 135 Narval cabriolet (chassis 800580), built on the desirable high-performance MS chassis, was first shown by Joseph Figoni himself at the Barcelona Motor Show in 1948. It was bought off the stand by José Lago Blanco, the owner of the luxurious Palace Hotel in Madrid. After a succession of Spanish owners, the car came to the United States in 1956. In 1985, the red Delahaye caught the eye of collector Noel Thompson, who showed it at Pebble Beach in 1987, garnering a First in Class. In 1992, when the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance gathered many of the world’s greatest Delahayes for a special display, this car was selected to be 36 K-2 Delahaye postwar featured on the Concours poster, painted by William Motta. The car was acquired by its current owner in 1995.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Narval Cabriolet sn-800580 1948

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Special Roadster 1937

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Special Roadster 1937

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Special Roadster 1937
This Delahaye 135 MS Competition Special Roadster by Figoni & Falaschi was built on a short competition chassis with aluminum coachwork and a leather interior by Hermès. It debuted at the 1937 Paris Auto Salon where it was the most talked about car of the show. It has several features that were patented by Figoni & Falaschi, including the complicated curves of the radiator and front fenders, the disappearing soft top and the windscreen, which lowered into the body using a track with a counter-balanced cable system based on the same principle as a funicular railway. Built primarily as a show K-1 delahaye prewar 33 delahaye prewar K-1 car, this Delahaye was shown by its first owner at concours all over Europe before he returned it to Figoni & Falaschi for some changes to the rather impractical body. Front and rear bumpers were added for protection in traffic and a revised radiator grille was installed, eliminating a cyclops-style headlight
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 MS Figoni & Falaschi Special Roadster 1937

Delahaye 135 MS Letourneur et Marchand Coupe 1949
Two Delahaye models were available after the war, the Type 135 M with a single Solex carburetor and the 135 MS (Modifiée Spéciale) with triple carburetors giving 125 bhp and a top speed of around 100 mph. Total production between 1946 and 1952 for both types was 1,155. This Delahaye 135 MS was finished by Letourneur et Marchand and delivered to an owner in France, where it stayed for several years. It then passed to Belgian collectors Baudouin Dejaiffe and J. M. H. Caris. In 1977, along with 250 other vintage and classic cars from all over Europe, it was invited to Kuala Lumpur to celebrate 37 delahaye postwar K-2 the 50th anniversary of the Monarchy of Malaysia and it won First in Class, the Mayor’s Trophy and overall Best of Show. It was restored in 2007 and this is its first app
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 135 MS Letourneur et Marchand Coupe 1949

Delahaye 145 Chapron Coupe 1937
This is one of four cars built for the Écurie Bleue racing team that was owned by Lucy Schell and competed in 1938 and 1939. It is built on a Type 145 racing chassis with a Type 165 4.5-liter V12 engine developing 184 bhp, and a four-speed manual transmission with four-wheel mechanically operated ventilated drum brakes. After several races and just before the war broke out, the Écurie Bleue team decided to sell the car, and it was one of two Type 145s bought by Henri Chapron in order to create his own grand touring coupés. His work was interrupted by the war but when the coachwork was completed in 1947 the car was bought by a M. Vanpoucque. William Procter of Procter & Gamble Company was its next owner in 1951, and he brought the car to the United States. Subsequent owners included Bob Grier, Lew Gotthainer, and Count Hubertus von Doenhoff. Peter Mullin added the Delahaye to his collection in 2004.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 145 Chapron Coupe 1937

Delahaye 165 Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-60743 1938
This Delahaye 165 Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet (chassis 60743) was first seen at the 1938 Paris Auto Salon, where it was pronounced by many to be the most beautiful car of the show. Built on a Type 145 racing chassis and fitted with a rare V12 engine, it offered incredible performance in addition to unique styling. The design, one of Figoni & Falaschi’s most harmonious creations, includes the sensitive use of chrome brightwork along the sills, which wrap around the rear, and along the bonnet sides and doors. Two almost identical Type 165s were built by Figoni & Falaschi in 1938, and while this car appeared at the Paris Salon, its twin (chassis 60744) was shown in the French Pavilion at the New York World Fair. This car was first purchased by W. E. “Billy” Butlin, the British holiday camp entrepreneur, and its next owner was Adrian Conan Doyle, the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame. It was acquired by the Lee collection in 1988.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 165 Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-60743 1938

Delahaye 165 Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-60744 1938

Delahaye 165 Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet sn-60744 1938

Delahaye 175 S Chapron Le Dandy Cabriolet 1947
When Delahaye returned to automobile manufacturing after World War II, it reintroduced the prewar Type 135 as well as the largerengined Type 175. About 50 Type 175 chassis were built, and this is one of just ten left-hand drive examples known to exist. Coachbuilder Henri Chapron called the body style Le Dandy, a name also used later on his Citroën bodies. The three-position soft top gives the owner the option of motoring in a fully closed coupé, a coupé de ville with just the front section open, or a fully open cabriolet. After spending a few years in Europe, this Delahaye (chassis 815028) was sold to an American collector in Kentucky and then to noted collectors Al McEwan and Dick Hooper, who had the Delahaye fully restored. It made its show debut at the 1985 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, winning Second in Class, the first of many awards in recent years.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye 175 S Chapron Le Dandy Cabriolet 1947

Delahaye Type OA Rear Entry Tonneau 1902
After competing in a 1900 motor race in Newport, Rhode Island, in which the first Vanderbilt Cup was awarded, this 12 hp 4-cylinder Panhard et Levassor Type B1 was given to works racing drivers David Wolfe Bishop and Fernand Charron to compete in the New York to Buffalo endurance race in September 1901. René Panhard was the first to manufacture a motor car with an engine mounted in front and rear-wheel drive—a revolutionary design at the time. The Panhard was victorious in every stage of the 1901 endurance contest and was declared the overall winner. The car was then equipped for road use. Its exciting race history was not unearthed until very recently. This car features many original racing components not seen on other surviving Panhards and is the earliest known Panhard racing car from this influential period.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delahaye Type OA Rear Entry Tonneau 1902

Delahaye Type OA Rear Entry Tonneau 1902

Delahaye Type OA Rear Entry Tonneau 1902

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912
Delaunay-Belleville, formed in 1903 by Louis Delaunay and Marius Barbarou, built some of the most prestigious cars in the world. The company was one of the first to use four separate cylinders in its engines, and the cars are often identified by their unique barrel-like hood, a shape reminiscent of the boilermakers built by Barbarou’s family. Delaunay-Belleville was famous for its quality of construction, materials, and precise machining, and customers included King George I of Greece, King Alphonso XIII of Spain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia, who owned about 40 Delaunay-Bellevilles at one time. The coachwork on this luxurious limousine-style omnibus is by La Carrosserie Industrielle, an old established carriage maker in Paris. The omnibus was built to carry the Czar’s guests and their belongings between the Russian palaces in Saint Petersburg and Yalta.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Delaunay-Belleville La Carrosserie Industrielle Omnibus 1912

Duesenberg J Brunn Riviera Convertible Sedan 1934
This is the second of three Riviera Convertible Sedans built by the Brunn Coachworks of Buffalo, New York, and is the only one built on the shorter 142.5-inch chassis with an unsupercharged, straight-eight 265 bhp engine. The body features an ingenious disappearing top. After passing through the hands of several owners, it was bought by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son-in-law, William Wesley Peters of Wisconsin, who then passed it on to Jim Aiken in 1967. Aiken commissioned Chris Bohman, the son of Christian Bohman of Bohman & Schwartz, to adapt the body style slightly, modernizing the fender skirts and adding a trunk rack. In the late 1990s the Duesenberg joined the collection of J. Peter Minstrelli, who engaged Fran Roxas and Brian Joseph to restore the car to its original configuration in 2006.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Duesenberg J Brunn Riviera Convertible Sedan 1934

Duesenberg J Murphy Convertible Sedan sn-J-208 1930
The Duesenberg Model J was introduced at the New York Auto Salon on December 1, 1928, where it stole the show. Duesenbergs were bodied by all the great American coachbuilders including Derham, LeBaron, Judkins, Brunn and Rollston, but perhaps the most popular coachbuilder was the Murphy Company of Pasadena, California. This Duesenberg (J-208), with Murphy convertible sedan coachwork, was used as a demonstrator at Duesenberg’s New York dealership before being transferred to Los Angeles where it was sold in 1934 to Hollywood art director Cedric Gibbons, who was married to film star Dolores del Río. The car has remained in California for most of its life. In 1986 it was acquired by Bruce Meyer, who commissioned Randy Ema to carry out a full restoration. J-208 was First in Class at the 1989 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and has won numerous other awards.
Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Duesenberg J Murphy Convertible Sedan sn-J-208 1930

Duesenberg SJ Bohman & Schwartz 1937
The supercharged Duesenberg SJ, first seen in 1932, was one of the finest American motorcars of its day. With the centrifugal, gear-driven supercharger, 320 bhp was possible, which eclipsed that of almost every other production car. This car (J-240) has Murphy roadster-style coachwork that was modernized and restyled in period by Bohman & Schwartz of Pasadena, California. Styling changes included a fulllength hood, a long flowing back body treatment, special skirted fenders, an external exhaust, and modern full-face bumpers. The standard Duesenberg grille and lighting were retained. One of the earliest owners of this car was Edward Beale McLean, who famously owned the Hope Diamond and whose family owned The Washington Post. The current owner bought the car in 1994. Source: Pebble Beach Concours media release.

Duesenberg SJ Bohman & Schwartz 1937