maxkalba

I’d love to see photos of the other ACD dealerships in Los Angeles if any exist. The only other ones I’ve seen are these:

I believe this photo is the SSJ loaned to Gable (2595 J-567) after it was restored and painted tan by Sidney Luft’s Custom Motors in Beverly Hills sometime in either 1939 or 1940. I think this photo was taken during D. Cameron Peck’s brief ownership around 1949 in Illinois.

Great info, thanks. I would love to see that photo. So do you think Gus painted the colors in the above photos? Cunningham had said that John Seelinger did a restoration in 1948 in SF but the date/location doesn’t seem to add up? This SSJ is shown in a light color (light grey, white or tan) with a dark sweep panel outside Clark’s Long Island Museum in 1949. I’m trying to get an understanding of the timeline of restorations/paint changes - I think I can count around 6 paint changes. Tan/tan > grey/grey > rolled on green? > white/green? > blue/green > grey/grey

Just came across these photos of 2594 J-563 painted in blue with an olive green sweep panel. The side view is from a Briggs Cunningham postcard dated 1970 (maybe photo taken earlier) and the front is from ‘The Treasury of the Automobile’ by Ralph Stein, 1960. Seems like the two-tone grey was done later than I had previously thought.

Very exciting to be in the crowd to see my grandpa's old SSJ sold at auction on Friday night. Thanks to the Rev/Gooding people to let me sit in the car with my dad. A truly great memory. I'm happy to hear it's going back to the Bay Area where my grandpa enjoyed it. Hope to see it again in the future!

Big thanks to Chris Summers who identified my grandfather's car as Cooper's SSJ!

Does anyone know the 1935 Duesenberg SJ roadster that Stanley Dollar Jr. (of Dollar Point Lake Tahoe and Dollar Steamship Lines) owned in the late 1930's? My grandfather bought it from him and had it until he shipped off to war around 1941-2. I think it might have been J-564/2589 or even a Cooper or Gable car but I'm not sure.