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May 2, 2009 5:38 p.m. petegossett Dork

Anyone here into them?

Im helping my wife's family close her Grandmother's estate, and as the resident "car guy" and only ebayer of the bunch I've been tasked with finding a home for these. And as cool as they are, they seem to be worth some $$ which counts me out.

I'm just curious if anyone here has first-hand experience. I'm seaching the web now & finding info, but value is difficult to come by. The ones on eBay now range from $100 to several thousand, and none are the same models - ours are a Duesenberg and I believe 2 Dooling model F's.
May 2, 2009 5:49 p.m. billy3esq Dork

Never heard of them until just now, but that does sound like fun.
May 2, 2009 6:22 p.m. stuart in mn Dork

There was a discussion a while back on the HAMB board about them: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=280837 They also called them spindizzies: http://ezspindizzies.com/
May 2, 2009 7:17 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork

A couple of the local RC guys were into those back in my RC racing daze. There's another whole subculture of wire-guided drag racers, you drive four spikes, run two parallel wires, then rev the engines and drop them at the same time. But unfortunately I have no real knowledge of values, etc.
May 2, 2009 9:02 p.m. Junkyard_Dog Reader

Car & Driver had an article on them a few years ago iirc. Probably some club info in there if you can dig up the correct issue.
May 4, 2009 10:39 a.m. AngryCorvair Dork

i had one from the '50s that was complete but not very nice. sold on ebay about 3 years ago for almost $100 iirc.
May 4, 2009 10:41 a.m. grinch77 New Reader

post up some pics i'd like to see them.
May 4, 2009 6:02 p.m. motomoron New Reader

If they're from the 40s or 50s, ie. art deco / midcentury modern looking cast aluminum bodies/pans w/ spark ignition engines, no clutches, open bevel drive from the engine to driven axle, and streamlined hard rubber tires on aluminum hubs - it's likely they're worth ~crazy~ money. If the engines happen to say "McCoy" on the side and have rear intakes it's more so. If the engine is a Dooling .61 and the car looks like an aluminum tadpole you've hit the lottery, seriously.

http://tethercar.net/

http://amrca.com/

http://tethercar.com/

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u185/oddrod1/DoolingFrogad.jpg
May 4, 2009 9:00 p.m. petegossett Dork

Thanks for all the links!

Here's a pic of the nice car, it's a pre-war Duesenberg....and it's probably worth more than every car I own except my wife's new Fit.

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