Car 2315
1930 Model J Duesenberg 2315, Murphy Convertible Berline
Engine No.:    J-391 [Picture]
First Coachbuilder:    Murphy
First Body Style:    Convertible Berline (with built-in trunk)
Wheelbase:    Long
Current Coachbuilder:    Murphy
Current Body Style:    Convertible Torpedo Berline
Original Owner:   
Owner in 1968:    Harrah's Auto Museum, Box 10, Reno, NV 89504
Current Owner:    Previously from the John O'Quinn Collection
References:    Malks, p. 49

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- ACD Certified Category 1 Original
- Coachwork by Murphy
- Engine J-391, Chassis 2315
- Used as a demo for the LA factory branch
- Formerly owned by actor Tyrone Power
- Sold new 1930 to rear admiral Gene Markey, the undersecretary of the Navy and movie producer
- Owned in the 1940's by Wilfred Graham Hudson, C. Allen Yeagle, Roger V. Shields, Lassiter Hoyle and James Talmadge the son of Buster Keaton and Norma Talmadge
- Talmadge traded the car to Tyrone Power for a new 1952 MG
- Power owned the car until his death in 1958 when it was sold to J.B. Nethercutt and then to Bill Harrah's Auto Museum in Reno, Nevada
- Sold in 1986 to Joseph Folladori of Indianapolis who restored it to its present color
- Sold in 1991 to the Imperial Palace Collection
- 420 CI DOHC straight-8 engine
- Standard 3-speed transmission










Picture from Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, pg. 354 (1966)


Picture from "Duesenberg The Pursuit of Perfection", p. 199.