New The Duesenberg-Powered 1934 Rigling & Henning ''Wonder Breadstuff Special,'' Took 3Rd House At Pebble Beach Inwards 2010. Yes, The Pigment System Is Authentic.
This 1931 Rigling in addition to Henning 'Wonder Bread' Special crossed the auction block inwards 2005 in addition to constitute a buyer willing to role alongside $125,000 for it.
It’s all Duesenberg, chassis in addition to engine, alongside a two-place trunk for the driver in addition to riding mechanic.
Herman Rigling in addition to Cotton Henning were based inwards Indianapolis in addition to renowned for their race winning chassis in addition to proven 'Specials.'
Their specialty were using Buick straight-eight engines mounted inwards steel-rail frames. Phil Shafer of Des Moines piloted his Rigling Henning Shafer 8 to a real impressive 12th-place complete at the 1931 Indianapolis 500 race in addition to inwards 1933 it finished inwards 5th
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Getting the history of USA built cars that participated inwards the Indy 500 is in all probability i of the to a greater extent than hard challenges a motorcar historian tin shipping away undertake, inwards role because the opened upwards cycle scene was largely a cottage manufacture in addition to inwards role the depression tech, depression cost, in addition to thus called Junkyard Formula of the postal service depression years 1930 – 1939 are peculiarly hard to discern because of depression budgets in addition to unannounced deals that took house to croak on the grids full.
8 of the forty starters of the 1931 Indy 500 are credited alongside beingness built yesteryear Rigling.
My thank you lot to Geoffrey Horton for sharing his photo’s of the #54 Wonder Bread Special seen at Concours on the Avenue, Carmel yesteryear the Sea inwards 2012.
in addition to hither at Pebble Beach
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