By 1935 Clark Gable was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. After getting his start at MGM, he was making $2,000 a week (roughly $30,000 today) and living the high life. In ’34 he starred in It Happened One Night, a picture that netted Gable the Best Actor award at the Academy Awards. It’s no wonder that after that kind of success he splashed out on a car like the Duesenberg Roadster.
The Roadster was so expensive that it the manufacturer only made two of them due to its production happening in the middle of the Great Depression. Clark Gable owned one, and his pal Gary Cooper owned the other.
Those cars were works of art thanks to the coachmakers who took the chassis and engines and built what the owner desired. It's why many of them are one of a kind.
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