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| Car of the Day: March 28, 2015; Racing Champions '35 Duesenberg SSJ | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 27 2015, 11:00 PM (580 Views) | |
| juantoo3 | Mar 27 2015, 11:00 PM Post #1 |
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Car of the Day for March 28, 2015 is the Racing Champions 1935 Duesenberg SSJ![]()
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![]() For more info see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesenberg ![]() Probably my favorite Racing Champions casting! I know guys love their exotics and Ferraris and Bugattis...give me a Duesenberg *any* day over any of those cars.
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| 250 TR | Mar 27 2015, 11:15 PM Post #2 |
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That's just simply stunning! And as an exotic car guy, to my fellow exotic car guys, this was the Ferrari of its day. It may be American and from several decades before the term exotic car even came to be, but its every bit the exotic as any Ferrari could ever hope to be. Love this particular version too! |
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| juantoo3 | Mar 27 2015, 11:39 PM Post #3 |
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Oh yeah. Duesenberg held *many* land speed records, Indy and other racing records up until WWII. Think about it...400 horsepower is pretty impressive today...but 1935? Those cars rocked! (Yeah, sure, you can get 500 horse Mustangs *now,* and with all the current technology there are some serious brutes out there pushing probably two to three times that much. Duesies did it with carburation and no computers... )
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| ivantt | Mar 28 2015, 12:46 AM Post #4 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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Absolutely impressive all around. Great CotW candidate!! |
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| pjedsel | Mar 29 2015, 01:42 PM Post #5 |
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Glad to see this RC Duesenberg SSJ - one of the nicest models RC had available. I wonder if they had continued on their own if they might have offerd some other '30 era cars.
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| Dean-o-mite | Mar 29 2015, 10:40 PM Post #6 |
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I yearn to find those elusive museum colors on this car someday! I'm envious of them. Great selection! |
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| Guntownal | Mar 30 2015, 03:35 PM Post #7 |
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Definitely one of Racing Champions better efforts. I had to have them all!![]() ![]()
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| juantoo3 | Mar 30 2015, 04:35 PM Post #8 |
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The black and silver is the one I'm missing. If I recall it was paired with a 1/18. I also need another champagne color one that I can open... Thought I had Tom Z talked into pitching this model for the JL line, and then Tomy bought them out. |
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| corvairjim | Apr 4 2015, 02:24 PM Post #9 |
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I never knew about this one, and I'm a huge Duesenberg fan! I gotta find one of these, or more if I can in it's various colors. A real beauty. |
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| juantoo3 | Apr 5 2015, 09:00 AM Post #10 |
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http://swiftysgarage.net/topic/6770048/1/?x=0#post8345188 a link to the database entry |
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Glad to see this RC Duesenberg SSJ - one of the nicest models RC had available. I wonder if they had continued on their own if they might have offerd some other '30 era cars.





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