Anwar & Azam Khan (a.k.a. Kahn) Auctions

8.1935 Duesenberg SJ Speedster

1935 Duesenberg SJ Speedster - £2.5m - Courtesy of Gooding & Company
Sold at Gooding, California, in August 2004. In an era of record-setters, Ab Jenkins and his Duesenberg Special set a prodigious number for his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats. He and his car, “the Mormon Meteor,” performed miracles in endurance speed contests. The Model J Duesenberg had already established itself as the pinnacle of American cars in the ’30s and is regarded today as the greatest American collectible of the Classic era, but the Meteor was the most powerful, the fastest and the most recognized. After its record-setting days were over Jenkins slightly modified the body by adding doors and a top, and he and his son drove the car around Utah some 20,000 miles before selling it in 1943. Before this auction, the car had been with the same family for almost 50 years. This auction may have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire one of the greatest American cars built. Bidding was spirited, jumping in $200,000 increments to $4 million, until a phone bidder prevailed, outbidding everyone with a final $50,000.
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