AUTOS CARS CUSTOM

Zeppo and Chico made a bet with a Hollywood producer that their car was faster than his Duesenburg.. and they went to Muroc with a huge crowd to see which was.. the Mercedes lost that one, Eddie Miller Jr, driving the Duesenberg, won.

 Hollywood was represented by all of The Marx Brothers, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Al Jolson, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Ben Lyon, Leila Hyams. The automotive side was represented by Eddie Miller, Harry Miller, and oil tycoon Earl Gilmore.

 Both cars were stripped for racing with the Duesenberg being prepared for racing by Eddie Miller with the enthusiastic approval of E.L. Cord.

Harry Miller flagged them off

The race started at 6:30 a.m. on a September 1932. The Mercedes sprinted ahead supercharger wailing, but the Duesenberg caught the lighter Mercedes on the first lap, and it was all over. Eddie Miller said that he shifted the Duesenberg into top at 5,200 rpm. The engine blew three quarts of oil out during the 109 mph run.

 the car was at the 2010 and 2011 possibly, Pebble Beach Concours

the full article has been scanned from Automobile Quarterly and can be found at http://forums.acdclub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2881

Photos from http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/06/marx-brothers-1927-mercedes-benz-s-boattail-speedster-headed-to/

info from http://forums.acdclub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2881


above photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358249

for a gallery of it that I posted before: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/elvis-photos-ive-never-seen-before-and.html

movie screen shot from http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/04/vintage-corvettes-at-races.html

3237, air conditioning, and it kept popping up in the auctions: Mecum May 2011 http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=SC0511-106894

all from http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/

the two 1968 Chargers in the above images are both R/T models, and one of them was in the shot below

I suppose they towed the parts car with the car that goes off screen. Commendable job of keeping it in one piece while rolling along

first given to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a 1920s socialite, by her boyfriend Walter Chrysler




this last image is from the scene where Cecil B De Mille appears, and his charge for being in this film was 10,000 dollars and a new Cadillac.