Originally Posted by Idle

A story told to me about fifty years ago by an old guy that worked on high dollar cars:

During that era, if you had that kind of money, you had someone who drove you around and maintained the car or cars you owned. It was common for this person to pick out the chassis and the owner to pick out the body. I don't get into the whole private jet thing but I understand that is the norm today in that market with the pilot picking the aircraft and the owner picking the interior.

Every high dollar car company did this, and there were rumors then that some dealers would offer a kickback to the chassis buyer if that would seal the deal.

Duesenberg was known far and wide to be a company that did not allow this practice. Perhaps that is why so few of them were sold?