...Say what?(Duesenberg)
AutoWeek, October, 2004 by McGuire, Bill
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Byline: BILL McGUIRE Okay, you got us. There is no such thing as a 1959 Duesenberg. Such a car was simply the conceit of the late Mike Kollins of Detroit, and now we've bought into it, too. The last real Duesenberg had been built more than two decades before 1959, something Kollins considered a crime too horrible to let stand.
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Imagine if Duesenberg had not gone out of business in 1937, but continued to build the Model J into the 1950s, around the same magnificent twin-cam, straight-eight engine, but with up-to-date chassis and contemporary bodywork. That was what Kollins ...
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