Bill Harrah

SIA Flashback – Million Dollar Duesy: Harrah’s Auctions Over 300 Cars

BlogBy webmin March 20, 2011

Nowadays, it’s not necessarily a headline grabber if a Duesenberg makes a million bucks at auction, and there are a couple dozen “auctions of a lifetime” every year. Not so in 1985, when Harrah’s conducted the next-to-last of their liquidation sales and Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, bought a 1929 Duesenberg Model J […]

SIA Flashback – The Harrah Automobile Foundation: A Look Into the Collection’s Future

BlogBy webmin January 30, 2011

For a while there, it looked like Bill Harrah’s impressive collection of automobiles would be no more. Unbelievably, he made no provisions for the continuation of the collection after his death in 1978, and the new owners entertained the idea of breaking the entire collection apart, scattering it to the four winds. Of course, we […]