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In June, 2010 I spent a week at the Vista Verde guest ranch RECOMMENDED! near Steamboat Springs, CO. We stayed in Colorado an extra day so I could visit the Cussler Museum in Arvada, CO.
A
reader told me about some of the Cussler Museum's Duesenbergs. Since I was
in the Denver area, I had to visit them! The museum houses the author
Clive Cussler's
The display included four Duesenbergs. Three were lined up under a Duesenberg Straight Eight Sale & Service sign (right). From back to front they are: J140, a 1929 Murphy bodied convertible sedan; J577/2605, a LWB 1936 Rollston bodied Limousine Landaulet; and J232/2261 a 1930 five passenger Arlington Club Sedan by Derham.
The fourth Duesenberg appeared in a lineup of four boat-tailed speedsters. The picture (below) shows the defining feature of these cars. From front to back they are: A Stutz; two Auburn boat-tails; and J198, a Murphy bodied boat tailed torpedo with a polished aluminum rear deck.
Cussler featured some of the automobiles in the
collection in his books
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