The Greatest American Car Ever 

And Tesla’s are ugly. Really ugly.

@@richardgarno6591 I agree. They are not aesthetically pleasing. I would not purchase one, but I was surprisingly impressed with the experience the one time I drove one for just ten miles.

Plus they are bad for the earth.

Only more modern cars that could be compared to the Dusenberg`s is The Mercedes Benz 600 and The Revival of the Maybach by mercedes the original editions. And some Rolls Royce could probably match.

Simply because they didn't have to take several emission standards and passenger and pedestrian safety standards into account.

@@tommylanger7686 There is the problem of Trying to make as much money as possible also. Duesenberg was only focusing on making the best.

I hope Rich's Restaurant still has outstanding baked goods. Go and see ..

I miss my Pinto 😢

The creator of this video doesn't, first off the saying "It's a Doozy" was in use before Duesenberg car's existed, and no, Duesenberg's weren't the finest most luxurious car's ever made in America, those were Packard's. Duesenberg's were faster with an emphasis on performance and did indeed have a very high build quality but they were loud and raucous cars with a bit rougher ride of a car, they were something that rich playboys or rich younger women would drive to get people's attention but when it came to all out luxury that was Packard, they were quieter inside, more plush and rode smoother, you wouldn't want to go across country in a Duesenberg just the same as you wouldn't want to ride a Harley with open pipes across country, by the time you got to the other side you'd be so sick and tired of having the sound of that loud exhaust in your head making your ears ring from hours of it droning away you'd wanna sell it and buy something else, no, when it came to all out luxury Packard's were the most luxurious car's ever to come out of America.

And I wish I didn't have a small Weiner

​@@badhairdaavemay it rest in ashes.

Expecting Americans to know any of their history is asking too much.🙄

NOT even close

It's a very low standard compared to the rest of the world

ah those were really unique beautiful cars I have seen both the 1 and the 3 at the kruse auction years ago when it was running, there is still one of the other kruses I think a cousin and some buisness partners that run worldwide auctioneers and they get some pretty nice stuff too, high profile stuff, cords, bentlys, supercars, your american muscle cars, all kinds of vintage, it costs to go inside the auction but you can at this time go all about the old kruse victory musium grounds and look at all the cars and swap meet free as well as many food trucks and the cruise in's they have over several days downtown, but as for the meteor's those are something special, the 3 by the way is the 2 but it was reengined I belive and thats what made it the three they slapped in an aircraft engine

I never knew that this was the reference. Interesting. I recall my Grandmother using the term. I doubt she ever saw one.

It's a myth, the term "It's/That's/She's/He's a Duzy" (some spell it Doozy) was in use before the cars existed, it's just that at a certain point people thought it referenced the quality level of a Duesenberg car but actually it's not true, it's just another myth like how people believe the saying "the whole 9 yards" came from the length of a belt of machinegun ammo, nope, the fact is "the whole 9 yards" goes back to at least the 1850's long before machineguns were even invented and is part of a punchline from a joke about a man's wife who wasn't a very good seamstress and had made him a shirt using "the whole 9 yards" of fabric she'd bought for making it which resulted in an excessively large and baggy shirt.

@@dukecraig2402 Well now I'm just confused. My Grandmother also used the "Whole nine yards" saying too, and she did have that machine gun down in the cellar. . .

@@phaedrussmith1949 Bet she had a sewing machine down there to.

​@@phaedrussmith1949I bet she was a real Lulu ❤

They're impressive cars, but regardless how many casino owners, pizza chain magnates, or TV comedians own them, Duesenbergs are not some stand alone single best, certainly not when adjusted for price. Learn something about the 120 years of automotive history before parroting claims.

@@mikescott5624 - Who put a bee in your bonnet? He only said Leno owned one. He owns 100+ other cars too.

no he aint en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_brake But they where generally quite unreliable for a while on most cars

@@Infernal_Elf holy crap! I really didn't know. thanks!

And supercharging is still rarely available. The engineering on these things was uncompromising. I am sure I cannot even BEGIN to appreciate what went into the creation and manufacture of these machines.

The 1950's Chrysler Hemi's weren't all that powerful, they didn't even make ½ HP per ci, it was the late 60's "Elephant" Hemi engine's that Chrysler made that were powerful and were a completely different engine with no parts interchangeability with the 50's Hemi's.

Thanks!

You know they are not related, right?

@@alittlebitgone- not sure. The wang bar is made in Germany. I know Deusenberg may be a common name however my feeling is that it might or might not be the same family. Probably not - I haven't done the research YET.

Same difference

Hey thanks!!

Some of those "facts" aren't.

@@mikescott5624 Well any “the greatest” video is by nature subjective. So maybe “facts” was a poor choice of words

It's not quite up just to imagination, there were multiple attempts to revive Duesenberg after war, some came quite close to become true. Ed's auto reviews has a video on the issue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AifSSa6QA58.html

Was that a Pocher model?

@@bartscarstories I cannot remember brother but I remember it was in maroon colour with black roof and interior. It was very detailed and amazingly beautiful

don't they sell for 400k+ nowadays? maybe should have held on to it...

@@DrTheRich it was in kinda terrible condition.. By the time I had gotten it the previous owner had jus let it go a little far... At that point I was just happy to get what I did..

No, no, no. Stutz DV-32 among others.

Several unsuccessful attempts were made to revive the Duesenberg

There are still a few around.......If you can afford them!

Yes they are, craftsmen like that still exist and still hand make just about anything you could possibly want and do just that for rich people every day, they still hand make fine silverware and jewelry for example. Every day in the automotive repair and restoration business people hand make parts repairing and restoring cars especially one's like this where their millionaire owners want them restored exactly how they were made in the first place. Aircraft restoration is another place where such craftsmen work every day, when they pull a P47 Thunderbolt out of a lake that it's been sitting at the bottom of since WW2 they don't really "restore" it the way people think, what they actually do is hand reproduce every single part either using factory blueprints or the old part as a pattern for a new one, or sometimes a combination of the two, aircraft like that that've been sitting at the bottom of a lake for decades only the registration plate will be the only original part used, every other part will be reproduced by hand. There's nothing people could do 100 years ago that people can't do nowadays, the mystique that surrounds that idea is just a myth.

You should go on a little journey and discover how many true craftsmen there are out there. The best part is, a lot of us don't care about the currency much. The passion is where these creations come from.

Inheriting real estate or being a trust funder doesn't make you an authority on automobiles.

Craftsmanship and high top speed were the Duesenberg Model J's only two draws.

Yep that’s Coop

The Cord 810/812 was originally designed as the "baby Duesenberg"

It was American not German.

Packard was more refined.

Claimed, not AAA or SAE sanctioned. Don't believe everything you seen in some down-home buff magazine.

Yess. Koenigsegg also comes to mind.

What "patents?" Other than extreme craftsmanship, there was nothing remarkable about a Model J's chassis. Learn about Bentley's Speed Six, Delage, Pierce-Arrow. Ettore Bugatti drove a Packard Eight on European business trips.

@@mikescott5624I didn't mention a single thing about the chassis, only the engine. The engine is the main attraction for this vehicle, after all.