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It's a Duesy--The World's Finest Motorcar Turns 100

Posted March 27, 2013 8:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: centennial Duesenberg luxury auto

For a car that billed itself as the world's finest - a billing with which many people, from royalty to tycoon, concurred - the Duesenberg had a relatively short lifespan, only a few different models, and an awfully limited production run. But those few cars set the standard for automotive styling in their day and, one could argue, helped to inspire the foundations of the collector-car hobby that continues to revere the cars a century after the Duesenberg brothers began to build their own automobiles.

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Re: It's a Duesy--The World's Finest Motorcar Turns 100

03/28/2013 1:14 PM

Got me to thinking about word origins. Found this on the Dictionary.com website:

Word Origin & History
doozy
also doozie, 1903 (adj.), 1916 (n.), perhaps an alteration of daisy, or from popular It. actress Eleonora Duse (1859-1924). In either case, reinforced by Duesenberg, expensive, classy make of automobile 1920s-30s. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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