This picture of a Duesenberg sent to me from my Romanian friend Mihai Dumitru may perhaps be of interest to the TNF readers.
"Built for Indianapolis with asymmetrical front-suspension, this particular car with a 4.9 litre straight-eight engine has fascinated generations of Romanians. The car with red bodywork was brought to Romania in 1932 or 1933 and started mostly secondary races, often its complexities defeating its Romanian crew. It survived WW II hidden in a tractor factory in Brasov. In the early 50s the communist regime really began to make his mark felt and with auto racing being considered a decadent activity, all racing was stopped and many expensive cars were simply melted as scrap heap. This city has a long history of anti-communism resistance. A decade later, the regime was beginning to relax, as the Red Army troops were leaving Romania, but the important thing is that the car survived those hard years. In the summer of 1978, the 1930 Duesenberg was donated to the Technical Museum in Bucharest. However, the current owner of the tractor factory in Brasov claims it was just a temporary transfer. The car is in the middle of a legal battle between the Technical Museum in Bucharest and the new owner of the tractor factory in Brasov.
Unfortunately in recent decades the red Duesenberg had little appropriate restoration and is in poor condition today."
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