Marmon was an expensive car that combined sport and luxury. A Marmon 34 would have been a proper car for Tom. Tom was from old money and had no reason to impress anyone. Tom Buchanan’s car is mentioned as a blue coupe. (Or maybe this guy spent his time driving Miss Daisy? Wait-wrong movie!)

We can speculate that Daisy drove this 1917 Jordan roadster. A medium-priced but stylish roadster, such as this 1917 Jordan, would have suited Daisy. Daisy’s family had money, but it’s unlikely that teenage Daisy would have had a Packard or Pierce-Arrow roadster. In a flashback to 1917 Louisville, Jordan Baker remembers seeing Daisy with Gatsby in her roadster. Is It Just Us, or Do a Lot of Cars Look Like Stormtroopers These Days? Nick Carraway drove an old Dodge, according to the book. The Dodge would have been dependable transportation for Nick.

Dodge was a step above the Ford Model T, with slightly more power and a sturdier build than Ford’s flivver. While trying to get established as a bond salesman, narrator Nick Carraway made do with an old Dodge. Jay Gatsby couldn’t have driven this car the book was published in 1925. This is a 1928 R-R Phantom I Ascot dual-cowl phaeton, which was used in the 1974 Gatsby film. We imagine him in this 1922 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, although it would be painted a different color. Imagine this 1922 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost painted yellow.Ĭars of The Great Gatsby We know that Jay Gatsby drove a Rolls-Royce, but we don’t know the year or make. The novel was published in 1925 and was set in 1922. The 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Ascot dual-cowl phaeton used in the 1974 production of The Great Gatsby is the perfect embodiment of the Gatsby car-except that it’s too new. Jay Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce plays a crucial role in the story and is described as having “a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.” Jay Gatsby embodied conspicuous consumption, and a Rolls with flamboyant coachwork in a bright color suited him. The rest are left to the reader’s imagination. Fitzgerald mentions only two cars by make in The Great Gatsby- Nick Carraway’s Dodge and Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce. By the way, the Auburn shown here is authentic, while the Duesenberg is a replica.Ĭars were an important part of the Jazz Age and of F. Obviously, these 1930s vehicles are not right for the story, which was set in 1922. In a scene from the 2013 film, Gatsby drives Daisy in Tom’s blue car (a 1933 Auburn) while Tom drives Gatsby’s automobile (a 1932 Duesenberg) with Nick and Jordan as his passengers.

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