Author Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 483 - Miller Burden V16 4WD Roadster chassis (Read 9487 times)

sixtee5cuda · « **on:** April 18, 2016, 02:23:45 PM »

What car does this chassis belong to?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2016, 07:24:18 PM »

Up!

Nothing from the Rookies. Experts?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2016, 09:57:59 AM »

Up!

Do the un-Pros know this one?

Allan L · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2016, 11:06:50 AM »

Well the de Dion front drive says it's a Miller and the two-headed engine makes it the Miller V-16 racing car of around 1931

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2016, 06:45:37 PM »

LOCKED for Allan L. Yes, that is a Miller V16. This is not the 1931 Miller Race car.

Allan L · « **Reply #5 on:** May 05, 2016, 06:56:51 PM »

I think I've found it in a piece describing The Burden V-16 Four-Wheel Drive Passenger Car which includes reference to "the car’s monumental frontal aspect carried the ribs of its immense front-drive housing " which we see in the photo.
Can't see a date, but must be early 1930s I think.

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #6 on:** May 05, 2016, 07:04:30 PM »

Yes, this is the chassis of the 1932 (or 1933) Miller-Burden (or just Burden) V-16 4WD roadster. When a high-end Duesenberg cost about $8,000, this car cost around $35,000.

Here are some more images of this lost jewel: