This is the Ab Jenkins Duesenberg SJ Special (Mormon Meteor), which set the 24 hour world speed record briefly in 1935 at 135.47 MPH. A few days later, this record was broken. Jenkins returned in 1936 with a new V-12 engine (an aircraft engine built by Lycoming - the engine builder for Duesenberg autos) fitted to the chassis, and again set the world speed record for both 24 hours (153.823) and 48 hours (148.641).
This car won the 2007 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best of Show award.
The parade car id license decided to fly up and ruin the picture, but I thought it worth sharing anyhow. This is the same car featured in my Motivational Poster challenge entry.
What an amazing car. Cool single headlight. Probably tough to see how large this car really is by thew photo. Can't imagine 135MPH in this machine! Shwoooh!
I haven't got to see many of these at all and didn't know all the history so thanks! It had to have been an awesome machine in it's day and even now still is!
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