Clark Gable's 1935 Duesenberg JN

black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
edited March 14, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
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This beauty was Clark Gable's favorite personal car. He used it while courting the actress Carole Lombard and continued using it during their brief marriage. After she died in a plane crash, he was reported to have abandoned the car in Canada with the stipulation that it never be seen in California again while he was alive.

If you would like to see many more rare, unique, and interesting cars, look at www.black-mamba.smugmug.com. Click on the " Amelia 2008 " gallery.
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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2008
    Beautiful cars and shots. My favorites are the Delahayes on page 8.
    Where was this show?
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  • cunarder534cunarder534 Registered Users Posts: 346 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2008
    Love me a dusenberg almost as much as a studebaker. iloveyou.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2008
    black mamba wrote:

    This beauty was Clark Gable's favorite personal car. He used it while courting the actress Carole Lombard and continued using it during their brief marriage. After she died in a plane crash, he was reported to have abandoned the car in Canada with the stipulation that it never be seen in California again while he was alive.

    If you would like to see many more rare, unique, and interesting cars, look at www.black-mamba.smugmug.com. Click on the " Amelia 2008 " gallery.

    Gosh it's in beautiful condition, at the back of the car, in the second image,
    is that the trunk, or is it another seat.

    Knowing nothing about cars, didn't some of those older antique cars have a hidden seat in the back? is this one of them??

    It looks like its quite a long car, did you get to see what was under the hood?

    Thanks for sharing black mamba thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited March 11, 2008
    What a beautiful machine. I wonder how big the gas tank is...

    Thanks for sharing.

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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2008
    This Duesenberg, and the other cars in the " Amelia 2008 " gallery at my Smugmug site, was presented at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance held each March on Amelia Island, Florida.....just north of Jacksonville. In its 13 year history, the Amelia Island Concours had risen to challenge the Pebble Beach show as the number one show of this type in the world.

    Gable's Duesenberg won the prize as "Best of Show" in the Classic division and one of the Ferrari cars won in the Racing division. The number and quality of cars at this show is always unbelievable.

    Getting good, clean shots of the cars with the hoards of people around is very difficult....takes a lot of patience. The stark, Florida sun and often dark colored cars, or very bright colored cars, makes for exposure challenges. I do the best I can......most come out OK.
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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2008
    Nice car....and the history of the car was interesting.
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  • HinsonHinson Registered Users Posts: 219 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2008
    Skippy wrote:
    Gosh it's in beautiful condition, at the back of the car, in the second image,
    is that the trunk, or is it another seat.

    Knowing nothing about cars, didn't some of those older antique cars have a hidden seat in the back? is this one of them??

    It looks like its quite a long car, did you get to see what was under the hood?

    Thanks for sharing black mamba thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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    Skippy; If I'm not mistaken, that is a 'Rumble Seat.' The old two seaters had these seats that appeared when you opened that latch you see. I remember riding in one in the late 40s. Not sure whos car I was in. Do a search on 'rumble seat' and you'll get an idea of how popular this style was.
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