{"id":498558,"date":"2020-01-09T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=101280"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:48:32","slug":"historic-duesenberg-donated-to-acd-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/historic-duesenberg-donated-to-acd-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Duesenberg Donated to ACD Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very special moment in our hobby occurred as one decade ended and another began. The very first Duesenberg passenger car\u2014owned by the same family for 100 years (you read that correctly)\u2014has been donated to the ACD Museum in Auburn, IN.<\/p>\n

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James and CyrAnn Castle of Monterey, CA, gifted their cherished 1921 Duesenberg Model A Coupe wishing that it be preserved and enjoyed for many generations to come.<\/p>\n

Last summer, I was contacted by Gordon McCall regarding the Castle’s desire to preserve their Duesenberg, potentially in a museum setting. I had worked previously with Museum director Brandon J. Anderson and collector Perry Pintzow of Albuquerque, NM, with respect to his generous gifting of a 1926 Model A Duesenberg show chassis. The ACD Museum soon emerged as the single best perpetual caretakers of the Castle’s hugely significant vehicle.<\/p>\n

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The first Model A Duesenberg ready for delivery to Mr. Castle in 1921, chassis #601. Fred Duesenberg is believed to be the second individual from right top photo. Photos courtesy ACD Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 1921 Duesenberg Model A Coupe features one-off coachwork by the Bender Body Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It was produced to the order of the car\u2019s original owner, Samuel Northrup Castle, including space for his seven-foot-tall stature. Mr. Castle was from a family of Hawaiian missionaries and was a founder of Castle & Cooke Co., a Hawaiian sugar cooperative, when he ordered the car and received it in 1921 due to delayed production. It was the first production Model A to be built after the prototypes were completed and tested and the first one to be sold to the public.<\/p>\n