1925 Duesenberg Model A Speedster

1925 Duesenberg Model A Speedster

A significant advance in the automotive industry of the 1920s, the Duesenberg Model A featured a race-bred, overhead-cam eight-cylinder engine and four-wheel hydraulic brakes, far outshining other passenger cars of the era. It had remarkable performance and very balanced handling and road manners for the period.

The example offered here was originally delivered with a Bender sedan body. Likely in the 1940s, the chassis frame was shortened considerably, the cowl and radiator lowered, and new, more sporting bodywork fitted. Duesenberg historian Fred Roe believed that the car may have raced in this configuration. In the 1950s the car was acquired by Ralph Evans, a longtime Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club member from Puente, California, who fitted the current roadster body and kept the result well into the 1960s, occasionally showing it at ACD meets.

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