1922 Duesenberg Straight-8

1922 Duesenberg Straight-8

In 1922, Duesenberg introduced its new Straight-8. Built to outclass, outrun and outlast any car on the road.

After more than 20 years of effort by its creator, Fred S.Duesenberg, a car was produced that has proven its superiority all over the world with its speed, durability and endless attention to detail.

The extraordinary flexibility of the Duesenberg Straight-8 engine, operation from three to ninety miles per hour on high gear with velvety quiet smoothness.

Its all-wheel hydraulic brakes allow the car to stop at virtually its own length at a speed of thirty miles per hour. At higher speed its action is phenomenal.

The Straight-8 is a combination of the best features that can be found in other vehicles.

As it becomes a motor carriages of such sterling qualities, the coach work employed is the best that artistic taste, coupled with the beauty of design, and luxurious appointments can supply. Extraordinary attention to detail, to materials and workmanship, to care of inspection, purchase cost, but insure to tech owner that sense of comfort and security which only comes from painstaking methods.

Every part of the Duesenberg Straight-8 is especially designed for the purpose intended. Molybdenum and Chrome nickel steels and aluminum alloys are used, each after exhaustive tests to determine their adaptability for the particular work required of them, resulting in an extremely light car.

Every part of the Duesenberg Straight-8 is especially designed for the purpose intended. Molybdenum and Chrome nickel steels and aluminum alloys are used, each after exhaustive tests to determine their adaptability for the particular work required of them, resulting in an extremely light car.

That this crowning achievement in automobile engine building is reached in the Duesenberg Straight-8 is evidence by its perfect performance on street, road and track. No engine in the industry has an equal record for power, speed and endurance.