Learn about a car the Duesenberg brothers worked on before forming their own car company.
This 1920 ReVere-Duesenberg Four Passenger is a product of the long-defunct ReVere brand. But it has an engine designed by brothers Fred and August Duesenberg before launching their eponymous car company, whichBadged as a Rochester Duesenberg, the 5.5-liter inline-4 had an unusual"walking beam" design that Leno describes as"a cheap alternative to dual overhead cams.
The engine proved reliable in racing, and since the Duesenberg brothers weren't making their own cars yet, they used that on-track performance to market the engine to other automakers. ReVere was one of the companies that came calling. Rather than design its own cars from the ground up, ReVere assembled them from components sourced from outside suppliers—a common practice in the 1910s and early 1920s auto industry.
While the head of ReVere appeared to have set up the company as a stock scam, it did produce a few examples of a remarkably good car. The Duesenberg engine is a"torque monster" that made the ReVere pretty fast for its time, according to Leno, and the car's aluminum doors and an an aluminum radiator shell were fairly novel features. It still had to make due with only rear-wheel brakes, however.
Leno estimates that only four or five ReVere cars are left today out of about 200 built, making later seem common by comparison. Those cars featured a more sophisticated twin-cam straight-8 engine, and are still regarded by experts as some of the greatest American cars ever made. And the ReVere-Duesenberg was their prequel.
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