SIA Flashback – A Doozy of a Showroom and Postwar Canadian Variants

By far, the most popular former Duesenberg showroom is the one that currently houses the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. But in SIA #61, February 1981, Richard Kelley introduces us to another – not the largest, nor the busiest, but certainly the flashiest – on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. (You know this is coming – I believe the building has since been replaced by the Equitable Building at 3435 Wilshire, but please correct me if I’m wrong.) In the same issue, Allan Wellikoff also gives us a rundown on the various postwar Canadian variants of popular American cars and the various reasons for their existence. Interesting fact that the Canadian automotive industry was once second in the world to the American. What happened, Canada?