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This is the first Duesenberg Model J Town Car. It looks similar to the Murphy-bodied Monogram Town car kit but there are some differences. The body is shorter at the far back end. The roof is not so flat. It has "hard" b-pillars rather than the thin chrome windshield frame as on the Murphy. Old Reveals sanded off and replaced with new made from Evergreen strip styrene. New hood sides with arc-shaped louvers. These were copied from a damaged diecast car. This is a Judkins Coupe. Modified Monogram Duesenberg Rollston roadster. Body shortened for 142.5" wheelbase. Body narrowed at rear. Heavily modified roof from Monogram 1930 Ford coupe grafted on. Supercharger exhaust holes in fender filled in. Resin hood sides from diecast Duesenberg. Duesenberg "French Roadster". Body began life as the Lindberg Auburn roadster. It has been stretched and widened. New cowl built up from Evergreen sheet plastic to mate up with Monogram hood and resin hood sides. The fender on the right side has been extended down and made into more of an "envelope" shape, rather than just having an open bottom side. Left one hasn't been modified yet. Porsche 962 road car. It's a Dauer 962, but not a faithful replica of any one real car. I couldn't find enough photos of any one car to to a detailed model of it. They made several 962 road cars and none were identical. I've made a longer nose and tail. I'm keeping the "stock" radiator intakes in the doors, but the exhaust for that is being moved to the side, just in front of the rear wheels. Wheels and tires from Tamiya 911 GT2 road car.

I can't believe no one responded to this one. I just looked at your profile to find out if you ever made a post about this car. Is it available yet? I'd like to get one and put a Duesenberg grille on it. I can't visit your website. I'm using a government computer and it filters out the word "models".

I've gotten most of them. I bought a lot of models on ebay while deployed to Afghanistan. There's one that I'm still searching for, however. It's a Duesenberg made by Bandai. They made a copy of the Monogram kit and tooled up a new body for it. I've been told the body is not 100% accurate, but hey, I could fix it. They misspelled "Duesenberg" and called it 1/20 scale on the box.

I want to build one of those with a Duesenberg grille decal and sidemount spares. 8)

I want a few.

Wow. How cool. I've been a fan of Doug since the old SAE articles, especially the radical Studebaker.

THAT is cool! I can't wait to see more

It really wasn't that expensive. I was bidder #5. It was labeled as incomplete in the description. I think that turned off the collectors/speculators. It's missing seat parts, the scrpt off the deck lid, and some other minor parts. The paint is crazed on the driver's door. All of these problems can be solved by pretty much any modeler. And they all make it affordable. I'm thinking dark candy purple 8)

Seller says it's missing parts of one seat and the windshield needs to be polished....but hey, I'm a modeler. I can take care of that. I'm looking for pics of Gianni Agnelli's one-off TR convertible. He was the president of Fiat and had one built by the factory. I'm so excited. I got it for a song (in relative terms)