1934 Auburn Twelve Salon Cabriolet, 1 of 27 produced; 1 of only 5 known survivors; rarer than a Speedster

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/hf23/hershey/lots/r0128-1934-auburn-twelve-salon-cabriolet/1395611

back in 2010, I posted about the Auburn Cabin Speedster... and I think I just stumbled across a photo of that same car way back in 1932 from

I'm only guessing it's the same one. 

orignally the color photos were posted in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/woodlight-headlights-number-one-in.html where there are a couple others

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/49339447263/in/album-72157712543534427/ for the black and white photo source, the Gladys O’Donnell Collection, she was a charter member of the 99s

in 1935 Cummins briefly collaborated with Auburn Automobile Company to install a prototype Cummins Model A six-cylinder diesel for a 1935 Auburn. In 1974, the Auburn was “rediscovered” and restored and given to Chairman J. I. Miller as a 40th Service anniversary gift

https://www.cummins.com/news/2022/10/03/road-trip-cummins-1935-auburn-sparks-keen-interest-antique-car-buffs

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032373834618

interesting way to show what a good value your car is

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6635

American Pickers, season 12 episode 14 (on Hulu) has the guys getting an Auburn from the repair shop in Broken Arrow OK, and it's hitting the road to drive to the people they bought it from in South Dakota

they bought it for 26500, paid 10k to get it roadworthy again, and can probably sell it for 45k.

The white paint? Was applied with a brush. Then the car sat in a barn for decades.

https://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers/season-14/episode-12
http://www.acdfactory.com/

It's been a long time since a car maker had a showroom as nice as this... I guess that's what happened when they decided car makers couldn't sell car, only a contracted dealership can. I need to look into why all that happened

Seriously one of the nicest showrooms I've seen a photo of. The Nethercutt has one that's all marble, and possibly not outclassed by any car show room anywhere on the planet, but it's a museum, not a factory/manufacturer's show room.

Anyway, have you ever seen an airplane shown in a car dealership's showroom? This one is a Stinson SM 8A


The attractive window display shown above is that of the Auburn-Chicago Company and is one of many similar window displays set up by Auburn-Cord distributors and dealers in various sections of the country.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/40881

Update, Nov 17th, The Old Motor just posted this image, and didn't bother mentioning where they got the photo from http://theoldmotor.com/?p=172664

Auburn Speedster at the Muroc dry lake run in the Mojave desert.

 

This Speedster was powered by the new 160 h.p. V-12 Lycoming engine."Automotive Industries" reported in it's Jan.1932 issue that new speed records were set at distances from one mile to 500 miles. The mile run set a new 100.77 mph mark, and the 500 mile distance was covered at an average speed of 88.95 mph.

http://www.unioncitylagrande.com/-speedster.html

Barnfind in the Philippines, and has only 17,000 miles from new. (thanks Gary!)

Roger Learmonth knew the whole story behind this car:

This was originally ordered from the Auburn Company by a Philippines plantation owner in 1934 because he was courting a socialite, and in an effort to win her hand, he asked what she most craved and she told him, “a fast sports car”.

It was delivered in 1935

Eduardo’s father felt the need to interfere, and instead sent hi son on a world cruise, and when he returned, in 1938, he discovered that his love had found another, and he lost interest in the Auburn.

His brother took over and used the car as part of a playboy lifestyle until 1941 when the Japanese arrived, and the car was hid from enemy eyes at the plantation.

In 1968 the Speedster was still in the Philippines where it sat forlornly for many years while Senor Montinola fought off all attempts by eager buyers. In 1986, however, the Auburn was discovered and purchased only to be flipped for profit over and over,  (seven owners over the years)  and "restored" a couple of times, as it's evident that the 1st couple of "restorations" weren't actually restoring the car, but making it pretty for winning awards on the show circuit.

When sent to the UK for a rebuild in 1986, the metalwork was found to be in as new condition with the vast amount of lead filling and shaping still in place (as it is today). The wooden structure however was very rotten and had to be almost completely replaced. The restorer found a fourteen inch mummified bat in the boat tail.

There were only 11 right hand drive Auburn Supercharged Speedsters made in 1935-36

When discovered in 1986, all the instruments were damaged, replaced or non-functioning except the speedometer which now shows just under 17,000 miles. The car has been kept as original as possible except for a conversion to twelve volts, and the addition of turn signals for motoring safety and law conformity

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214242860320060&set=g.712743252141034&type=1&ifg=1

artist Ken Dallison, selected for a kickstarter book campaign, which was successful to make a book of his many illustrations, and $50 was the price of a book

At the age of nineteen I started sketching during my lunch hours around the US embassy in Grosvenor square London. Intrigued by the great shapes of the American cars like the Studebaker, Cadillac.

Moving with my wife and children to New York, Gene Butera saw my sketches of automobiles and gave me my first assignment in Car and Driver magazine. My career developed from there.

Cycle magazine, Yachting, Redbook, Esquire Sports Illustrated National Geographic Smithsonian and Air and Space.

Twenty eight US postal stamps. Commercial clients include American Airlines Boeing US army Navy and Air force. Mercedes Benz Toyota Honda General Motors Chrysler. Indianapolis speedway.

 really good article and interview at https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hcc/2009/12/Ken-Dallison/2486781.html

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1502319432/ken-dallison-a-life-in-illustration

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/
http://www.kendallison.com/ken_dallison.html

cool way to make a case for buying one brand of tires over another, display them on a cool roadster

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/14936123431/

1936 Auburn Ambulance

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5537572&postcount=5795

Scenes from Dick Tracy 1990(the 2nd campy comic strip turned movie, a year after Tim Burton's Batman)

it had a hell of a lot of super stars too... Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Madonna, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Dick Van Dyke. The casting was incredible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099422/

Wow, someone took a '32 Auburn on the 2014 Great Race

Joe Reinan of Minn., drives and his navigator, Chris Brungardt is from West Fargo,

It qualified for the Indianapolis 500, but wrecked in practice and never ran in the race. Some years later, it was resurrected from the junkyard, restored and raced on dirt tracks in upstate New York in the 1940s and ’50s. It has a straight-eight engine with four two-barrel carbs and makes 300 hp at 7,500 rpm — in its day, a real screamer.

https://www.fasthorseinc.com/blog/2014/07/07/old-cars-nd-jumpsuits/
https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/auburn-special-racer-at-2014-the-great-race/
http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/06/21/vintage-car-road-rally-kicks-off-from-ogunquit/

A convoy of cool old cars to surprise the groom!

the groom is a 21 year old enthusiast. His bride and her mom planned it and Bob set it up.

When the door of the church opened and he saw it, he just broke down. His car is the yellow coupe.

Bob lead the procession in the maroon 29 Ford with the bride and groom in the tan 32 Auburn Sedan and all the bridesmaids in the green 32 Auburn.

The groomsmen rode in rumble seats and one of our wives drove the grooms car to the reception. She and her hubby drove the 31 Ford Cabriolet.

Thanks Bob!

https://www.facebook.com/bob.croslin/posts/10206000514681858

30 Auburn with woodlites on a used car lot

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/388345988038515/?fref=nf

I recently learned the Academy of Art University in San Francisco has it's own car museum... wow! And the cars in it's collection are stunning

Murphy bodied, supercharged Lycoming 420", Duesenburg

L 29 Cord with woodlites

Pierce Arrow

1934 V16 Fleetwood bodied Cadillac coupe

1930 Waterhouse bodied Packard exported to Uruguay, probably for the president of that country

Supercharged Auburn Speedster

1938 Talbot Lago bodied by Figoni et Falaschi, competition aero coupe and the only known long wheelbase model, it was commissioned by a French banker

Kaiser Virginian

1931 Stutz Super Bearcat, Weymann bodied

Darrin Bodied Packard

This Auburn was painted this way to grab attention by design, and the colors on the body matching the tires and rims is a really cool look

Dietrich designed, Murray bodied, Lincoln powered, and bought by Roy Rogers. Not to drop names, but it's needed just to describe this car

1949 Delahaye coupe de ville by Soutchik

http://www.academyautomuseum.org/index.php/nggallery/page/1?page_id=13