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Auburn 1900-1936 - dazzling car personalities

Name: Auburn Speedster 1935
Brand: Auburn

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Created in 2010

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Roger Gloor

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Bruno von Rotz

RM Auction Hugh Hamilton

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Bruno von Rotz

RM Auction Hugh Hamilton

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Auburn 851 Cabriolet (1935) - Vintage car in Obwalden OiO 2011

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Auburn Model 851 Supercharged Speedster (1935) - offered at the RM Auction of Monterey on August 19 and 20, 2011

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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Auburn, which produced cars from 1903 to 1936. The Auburn Speedster is particularly well known and motivated imitations in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1936, the Cord Corporation, of which Auburn was a part, came to an end. More in the detailed article ...

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Before the Auburn Speedster became the darling of Hollywood, the brand named after its place of origin in Indiana was on the road for a long time. In 1900, it emerged from the coachbuilding business of Frank and Morris Eckhart, sons of a German immigrant. Car production began in 1903 with doorless and roofless single-cylinder runabouts, followed by two-cylinder models in 1905, four-cylinder models in 1909 and six-cylinder models in 1912. In 1919, the plant went to a Chicago consortium, which offered 30-year-old sales genius Errett Lobban Cord the opportunity to lead the brand out of its lethargy and take it over in 1924.

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