What do you do for thrills if you are Ab Jenkins, the Duesenberg test-driver whose job it was to verify that each car produced was capable of the company’s claimed 100 mph? You have a faster, more streamlined model built, of course. This 1934 Duesenberg SJ, the “Mormon Meteor,” set a record at Bonneville for averaging 135.5 mph for twenty-four hours with a one-hour high of 152.145 mph.
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