What A Duesy: Another AMAZING Mini Car Build
01-20-2011, 06:23 PM
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What A Duesy: Another AMAZING Mini Car Build
Like the dude that built the Ferrari, this guy has hand built a Mini Duesenberg, and an amazing job he did.
Six years, 6,000 handmade parts and 15,000 hours of labor. That's the short story of this fully-functional miniature 1932 Duesenberg SJ phaeton. No wonder the builder was recently named Metalworking Craftsman of the Decade.
Hemmings tells the story of Louis Chenot, director of mechanical engineering for Leggett & Platt, a supplier of automotive interior systems. Chenot's massive modeling undertaking is a winter project—actually six winters—for the ages.
Chenot took the dimensions from Duesenberg authority Randy Ema's J-589, a supercharged D-engine belonging to Jay Leno and blueprints from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. Then, he reduced them to 1/6 scale, and hand-formed the multitude of parts with his own jigs, patterns and whatnot. All together, the Duesie weighs 60 pounds.
The car's supercharged straight-eight engine—displacing 1.936 cubic inches—has 300 parts in the head alone, including 32 working valves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6TetkMpFIc&feature=player_embedded Link to full article HERE
Six years, 6,000 handmade parts and 15,000 hours of labor. That's the short story of this fully-functional miniature 1932 Duesenberg SJ phaeton. No wonder the builder was recently named Metalworking Craftsman of the Decade.
Hemmings tells the story of Louis Chenot, director of mechanical engineering for Leggett & Platt, a supplier of automotive interior systems. Chenot's massive modeling undertaking is a winter project—actually six winters—for the ages.
Chenot took the dimensions from Duesenberg authority Randy Ema's J-589, a supercharged D-engine belonging to Jay Leno and blueprints from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. Then, he reduced them to 1/6 scale, and hand-formed the multitude of parts with his own jigs, patterns and whatnot. All together, the Duesie weighs 60 pounds.
The car's supercharged straight-eight engine—displacing 1.936 cubic inches—has 300 parts in the head alone, including 32 working valves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6TetkMpFIc&feature=player_embedded Link to full article HERE
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01-21-2011, 08:21 AM
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Re: What A Duesy: Another AMAZING Mini Car Build
I talked to that guy at length last weekend at a miniature machining show in York, PA. The level of detail is incredible to behold in person.
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