Duesenburg start up straight 8 sounds good.

[viktord1]

sorry but that doesn't sound good to me. sounds like my old corolla with its exhaust missing lol

[onlyford70]

sounds so good



[ztikmaen]

Wow, that sounds epic! True old school :)

[gavquinn]

Man, this thing aounds AMAZING! What, around 150bhp?

[TheRebelman95]

im guessing thats not original

[scrock2002]

@TheRebelman95 yes thats all original is the way a straight 8 sounds

[TheRebelman95]

@scrock2002 their that loud originally!?

[citydriver]

@scrock2002 they came stock with stainless steel tubilare headers and exhaust system? i dont think so

[nuescu]

You`ve just said it; YUMMY !

[DrGamble28]

@CatholicPriest1945 yes they were. If you read what I posted, I said the car was made by Germans. Both the duesenberg brothers were self taught engineers born in germany.

[GooglFascists]

If that Duesy sounded like that when new nobody would have

paid the fortune it cost to own one.

I had a Packard with a 356 straight 8 flathead and it was

QUIET. It glided down the highway at 70mph like I was

sitting in the living room at home.

That is what engineers were after in those days.

scrock2002 you would have liked how they built hotrods

when I was a kid. They took Model A Ford roadster

bodies and put in a V-8 out of a Merc or Lincoln.

They were LOUD, FAST & CHEAP - for FUN.

[Hammered001]

Anyone know the weight of this engine? I'm sure the Duesenberg Bros. used the best alloys of the time, but straight engines would have to be quite heavy especially in the bottom end. Still wish I had one!

[Hammered001]

Is this example J or SJ? 

[flyurway]

"Yummy"? Is that what she said? Kinda sums it up pretty good though, sounds NICE! Imagine listening to that while cruising the old countryside back in the 30's.

[russellmantz]

@flyurway I am going to bet that it was a quite car then

[peckerwood57]

Did they really make Duesy powered firetrucks? Could the average municipality afford these? Though I guess they would be more reliable than most.

[rturn2mow]

@peckerwood57 Yes they did. I just learned this myself, that Duesenberg mostly just sold their chasis and engine combos. Custom coach manufactures and specialty companies where then given the task by the buyers to build the rest of the cars and trucks around it. There is a great special on PBS called Great Cars about the custom building era with Duesy, Cord and Packard. I highly recommend it.

[Squarerig]

It was proven in Germany in the 1980s that the production of one catalysator,gives rise to more pollutants than the average car will emit in a twenty year life!But the manufacturers of these magical things have made a million from the poor suckers!It should be borne in mind that these poisons are far more dangerous than CO2 and CO.Drive Duesenburg for ever!!

[Westside7be]

Hell yeaaaah!!!

[jhofmann33]

Yummy, indeed. Awesome! Thanks for posting.

[chibichan1701]

Haha, "yummy"

[tbucket1954]

SAW THIS CAR RACE IN AUBURN AT THE AIRPORT HELLAVA NEAT CAR

[eh4891]

good old 420 cubic inch,duel overhead cam Lycoming Straight 8

[SpeedingStudent]

@eh4891 An engine several decades ahead of the world's best.

I wish Duesenberg were still with us. They were never "affordable" cars, but damn were they fantastic.

[afwjam]

I have seen this fire truck Duesenberg twice in the past year, it really is "Yummy". Its was built from spare parts as a rolling chassis/firetruck, super cool to look through the acrylic floor boards and see all the gears turning. It ran a 16 sec quarter mile at the Duesenberg Festival of Speed in Auburn Indiana. I talked to the driver and he claimed to have been holding back for obvious reasons. For sure its one of the loudest Duesenbergs.

[RulerOfEverything]

The sound from this engine is INCREDIBLE.

I wish my Pontiac straight-8 sounded that mean.

[GundamKnight07]

i hate all tree huggin hipies i love the sound of a maasive engine i drove my 70 ltd in san fransisco you should of seen all the people staring

[235chuck]

Thanks for posting this!! So many folks don't know about these classics!!

[BronzeGiant]

Sweet, sweet music.

[SebastianElf]

yummy indeed !

[Aenigmaa]

Lol that engine is literally more green then the engiens of a prius xD

[Aenigmaa]

My ears are cumming from the greatness ;_;

[jrkepler]

Has anybody seen more of this? Is it going to be restored?

[desmodronic916]

Heh, I see talking about Prius. You wont save the wold if you buy that car. Just look in sky and you will see a 600,000HP Boeing 747 eating Diesel fuel and spitting black smoke in air.

[MultiParasite]

@desmodronic916

A jumbo eating diesel? Uhh..

[desmodronic916]

@MultiParasite

Kerosene, diesel, and jet fue are closely related to each other.

[MultiParasite]

@desmodronic916

So is methanol and ethanol, but one of them I wouldn't want in my wine..

[MidShipCivic]

@MultiParasite JP8 is military spec diesel and I know for a fact that they also use this same fuel to refuel fighter jets so, desmodronic is not off with what he's saying.

[animagus333]

i just came

[randommagnum]

@animagus333

"i just came"

Here's another one for you: /watch?v=4RNs-NDN2UM Watch until the end.

[stylishcars30th]

yes nice sound

[Sealy57]

That is one incredible car!

In total agreement about the Prius. The infrastructure required to produce it, the toxicity of the battery assembly.  Yuck! Those who think they're driving an environmentally-friendly car should think again. For boys who wear make-up.

[Nza420]

you should check out Jay Leno's duesenberg motor on the dyno at jay lenos garage d0t c0m.. it's awesome!

[Dav123xyz]

Like a cross between v6 and straight 6.

:-)

[bostondog55]

o_0 me like

[SuperAquanaut]

AWESOME these cost more than what I make in 10yrs.......

[JGMagoo]

I think that may be one of Jay Leno's Duesenbergs.

[maccrazyg5]

holy shit that was incredible

[fpm1979]

Yummy indeed!

[minivan442]

I may never own a Duesenberg, but I love hearing the sound of their inline 8s and looking at their elegant styling and just dreaming that I do own one.

[truckr74]

I dont know what is sexier. the roar of that big inline 8 or the chic saying yummy...

[Auulxalyany]

ohhhhhhhhh yeah gotta love that sound!!

[vetttech1999]

yummmy she says,,,lol gotta love the women who put up with car guys

[Phoenixfire360]

this is the first time ive heard a I8 and i gotta say it sounds pretty damn good.

cant tell much difference between it and a v8.

[RootBeer8]

That should scare some civic drivers off the road, nice beast.

[VALsacount2]

And lexus owners talk about how quiet their cars are. Well when you sound that good, who needs to be quiet?

[unimogman404]

What a sweet sound !

[monstergearhead]

hey it may sound like a plane but then agian who wouldnt mind getting all the looks when you pull in??

[DodgeChallengerules]

What Model Duesenburg is that?

[scandishredder]

naah.. a v8 sounds better

[dunti21]

I prefer a V8 sound. This sounds like plane...

[iliv4daweekend]

@dunti21

yeah but it still sounds badass doesn't it

[19Spencer80]

Sounds like a ww2 plane engine

[SNESpguy]

That's because Lycoming made Duesenburg's engines.

[johnprice1000]

yummy! lol

[Shittywaffles]

its beautiful. sounds amazing.

[Unibodyguy]

I think those were 452 cubic in?? I know they were 4 valves per cyl. I can't remember what the horsepower was but it had to be up there.

[ChrisStockslager]

Around 421 cubic inches, rated at 265 horsepower, 320 supercharged, and almost 400 supercharged, with rams-horns manifolds.

[wmichswingers]

I think the 400 hp specials were for the short SSJ chassis specials for Gary Cooper and Clark Gable...

[ChrisStockslager]

That's true, but, after 1935, with the new ram's-horn manifolds, almost all supercharged Duesenbergs had a little less than 400 horsepower. Considering weight, though, the Mormon Meteor and the two SSJ's were still probably the fastest by far.

[footballmania132]

Damn! 8 cylinders always sounds good. Hahah "Yummy"

[Wishuey]

Beautiful sound but why the trailer and not a road (and body)?

[Yarder122]

I wish i kept my old tractor and put its engine in a car,,,

It had a deisel 18 cylinder engine

[DRNEGOLICIS]

what lol what kind of tractor was that?

[Yarder122]

i wish i knew

[jetmano]

You cant really rev it can you? Because you just scare rear wheels of with this sound :D Great!

[parkerbelkin]

WOW! WOW! LIKE SHE SAID, "YUMMY!"

[depolle13]

WOW!!!!!!!

GOOSEBUMPS!!!!!!!!!!!

[4x4Explorer]

jesus christ! never heard such a beefy sound..

[hydrohuman21]

that sounds so beefy

[rpeek]

Man, that's cool..

[rct2100]

Holy Crap ^^

That sounds SO orgasmically good xD Why cant all cars sound like that :( :P

[Yarder122]

So you mean like having a Volks Wagen that sounds like that?

[tylerkb12]

Because then this wouldn't sound special; it would be ordinary.

[KapteinOpel]

exactly.like driving a v8 every day.

[bonecrime]

V8s sounds boring. :(

[KapteinOpel]

not when virtually all cars around have 4-cylinders...

[bonecrime]

Depends on where you're from, doesn't it? ;) No but really, I'm kinda bored with V8s.

[KapteinOpel]

I know what u mean..I had a dodge aspen once,318 with loud pipes and rear axle ratio for 6-cylinder...

[1339LARS]

As you can hear from the lady in the background YUMMY.

[xSwordx]

sounds fucking amazing, why arent there more inline 6 and inline 8s on the road nowadays?

[marsgal42]

Inline 6 and 8 cylinder engines are physically bulky. Cars nowadays are designed around more compact engines, hence all the V6 engines.

Inline 8 engines are even bulkier (but boy do they sound cool!), and if you take the drive from the end, the very long crankshaft tends to vibrate and whip all over the place. Many straight 8 engines were scrapped because of broken crankshafts.

[Aenigmaa]

Oh

My

fucking

GOD

THAT's the way an engine should sound <333333

[kazmaz79]

Yummy.....yes! Thats awesome!

[DieselGlo]

This car sounds amazing! The straight 8 engine definitely purrs... Great classic car

[mockingarab]

Crap engine, I like Benz 500K's better

[aussieeagle2512]

Do Straight-8s simply make the best noise of any known engine configuration? As they are virtually non-existant now guess its a good question.

[mockingarab]

My Prius sounds better

[440mopar383]

What is wrong with you, this car could eat your prius, and its 70 years old.

Go suck one.

[SteveSpicerPortsmuth]

@440mopar383

You fed a very obvious troll. That makes you guilty as sin.

[smoothie6ft3]

Thats a mean sounding Duzy!

[Righty736]

Sounds awesome

[Crestoloy]

Go fuck your boyfriend in the backseat of your prius while chugging a triple white chocolate soymilk latte. I will ride by in my Duesy, rev the engine, and watch your mind fry due to your inability to deal with the prodigious quantities of awesome noise produced. Then, I will piss in your latte, and burn rubber all the way around your prius just to add insult to injury.

Have a nice day.

[yamahonkawazuki]

@Crestoloy that HAS to be at LEAST half a mil. sitting on that trailer [/drool]

[McLarenMercedes]

@Crestoloy

Burning rubber with a Duesenberg? Are you insane or plain stupid? This is not some Hot Rod and the classy owners of Duesenbergs would never subject these cars to such abuse.

1. You don't own a Duesenberg.

2. A Duesenberg us more than just the noise you inbred redneck.

3. That you even lost all sense just because some troll made some lame comment proves you're even lower down on the evolutionary scale you troglodyte.

You need to grow up and stop sounding like some dumb thug.

[DrJohnBecker]

@McLarenMercedes I bet you own a Douchenberg don't you?

jklol.

[Zoomlens]

@McLarenMercedes Abuse? These cars were made to be abused! They were strong beyond belief. Duesie engines won the Indy 500 four times before 1930.

[USMC77777]

@McLarenMercedes You sir have delivered the single greatest rant in the history of mankind and I applaud you and your opinion a Dussenburg is a masterpiece of a car and should be handled as such just thought I'd applaude your words

[gavquinn]

@McLarenMercedes mmmmmm, you love those 12, no 11 thumbs up

[KrazeeCain]

@McLarenMercedes I agree, Duesenbergs are fantastic machines and should never be abused in such a way... But I just can't help but want to see a Duesey do a burn-out... just once.

[YouLikeToast]

@McLarenMercedes cars are built to drive, and im pretty sure these cars were meant to be fast. im sure this car was too. they are not built to sit on a trailer, if they dont get driven, all they really are is a fancy chair.

[mopar43v3r]

@McLarenMercedes Get off your high horse dude.

[day10020]

@Crestoloy HAHA, spot on brother!

[Brainiac83]

@Crestoloy Ego the size of  the moon.

[eh4891]

@Crestoloy Haha LOVE IT,I can't stand whiny little prius driving tree hugger hippies either

[DrGamble28]

@Crestoloy Im not even a prius owner or fan boy of any gas saving cars...but you sound like a american muscle head loving a true car made by Germans.

[SakoTGrimes]

You wanna see pollution? Look at the factory where your Prius's battey was made. That Dusenburg has caused a lot less harm to the environment than your "green" hybrid.

[mockingarab]

I'm talking about the ugly loud noise not the environment

[BotterbrodtGE]

@SakoTGrimes so true so true

[legitimatemind]

@SakoTGrimes YES! Someone else in this stupid world that actually understands shit! lol

[homegrownpinesol]

@SakoTGrimes You are exactly right. The batteries the prius uses are made of nickle, dredged from Canada, the shipped to china to be formed into the actual battery packs, then shipped to Japan, installed in the the "hybrid" and the shipped across the world.... only to fail in a few years and cost the owners at least 6 thousand to replace and the environment God only knows how much. Its so much more economical to drive even an M3 than a Prius. Dont get me wrong, I love Toyotas. Just not the Prius

[vuk1058]

@homegrownpinesol

Where are you guys getting your information? I made NiMH for 8.5 years. Our plant had zero landfill output...Zero. We made our positive using an aqueous system and the negative was made using an inductive melt and sinter system. (so yes, it took electricity...like other techs) Prius dealers are reporting that it is common for owners to get over 200k without battery failure. Nickle is completely recycleable, if not back to nickel then to stainless steel.

[jsaulgodoy]

somewhat sounds like a drag supra from the side, and a v8 from the tailpipe. awsome!!!! put that in a supra!!! ill call it the 3jz

[duesenberg1932]

Best engine ever made, no execptions

[Jespertichelaar]

Woh, that's what I call Straight Eight. I was in the ACD museum too. It was very nice!