Six years, 6,000 handmade parts and 15,000 hours of labor. That's the short story of this fully-functional miniature 1932 Duesenberg SJ phaeton built by Louis Chenot.
Chenot took the dimensions from Duesenberg authority Randy Ema's J-589, a supercharged D-engine belonging to Jay Leno and blueprints from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. Then, he reduced them to 1/6 scale, and hand-formed the multitude of parts with his own jigs, patterns and whatnot. All together, the Duesy weighs 60 pounds.
The supercharged straight eight engine, displacing 1.936 cubic inches, has dual over head cams and 32 valves, just like the real thing. The head alone has over 300 parts.
