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  Cord Automobile FAQs
Auburn was a subsidiary of the Cord Corporation, established by 33-year-old
Transferred to Auburn, another division of the Cord Corporation, Buehrig used the same germ of an idea to create a 1/4th scale clay model for a new front wheel drive car.
Auburn continued as a manufacturer through World War II and into the 1950s, changing names as it went along.
www.automaven.com /FAQs/faqs.html   (1442 words)

  
 Automotive History Online
AUBURN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY— The Auburn Automobile Company is one of the most famous American cars of its time.
From its humble beginnings in Auburn, Indiana, the company rose to become one of the leaders in the American automobile industry.
Auburn was started in 1900 with a capitalization of $2,500 by the Eckhart brothers.
automotivehistoryonline.com /auburn2.htm   (193 words)

  
 AUBURN, CORD, & DUESENBERG AUTOMOBILES
Auburn, Cord & Duesenberg are three extraordinary motoring marques from America's golden age of the automobile.
Handsome and sporty Auburns, and innovative front-drive Cords were designed, built, displayed and marketed in Auburn, Indiana until 1938, when the effects of the Great Depression brought an end to a transportation empire.
Many of the innovations pioneered by the Auburn Automobile Company are in use today.
www.acdclub.org /AcdforumCars/thebest/default.htm   (188 words)

  
 CanadianDriver: Motoring Memories - Auburn
Auburn Automobile Co. enjoyed limited local success until it showed a car at the Chicago Auto Show in 1903.
Auburn was rescued in 1919 by a group of Chicago investors that included chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr.
Auburn, like so many other regional manufacturers, was on the brink of disappearing, until it was saved by the arrival of a brash young man named Errett Lobban Cord.
www.canadiandriver.com /articles/bv/auburn.htm   (823 words)

  
 The Showroom of Automotive History: 1937 Cord
Auburn Automobile Company, the Cord's parent, filed for bankruptcy in December 1937, leaving behind 2320 cars to be coveted by future collectors and enthusiasts.
In 1924, after achieving great success as an automobile distributor, Cord sold the board of the Auburn Automobile Company on the idea that he was just the man to revive their slumbering enterprise.
Auburn itself filed for bankruptcy in December, and it was all over.
www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/showroom/1937/cord.html   (1084 words)

  
 Artcom Museums Tour: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, IN
The purpose of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is to be the finest automotive museum in the country, exceeding the highest museum standards and practices, a historical and educational institution, using its collections and facilities to authentically illustrate and interpret the Auburn automobile manufacturers' impact on the automotive industry and the American culture.
The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is located in south Auburn, Indiana, 20 miles north of Fort Wayne, and 35 miles south of the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/I-90).
Auburn, Indiana, is at the intersection of I-69 and Indiana Route 8.
www.artcom.com /Museums/vs/af/46706.htm   (425 words)

  
 Kruse International
Auburn production line in 1928, and 1936 was last year for production of the boattail speedster and Auburn Automobile line completely.
The ‘36 Auburn Boattail Speedster has the front end, fender and bumper redesigns created by Gordon Buehrig on a shoestring budget, and most 1936 models were leftover 1935 models reworked in a last ditch effort on the part of the Auburn Automobile Company to recover its dwindling market.
The Auburn 851 Phaeton was a bright spark in the dwindling fire of the Auburn Automobile Company.
www.kruseinternational.com /news/2005_0426_aubspr05_PR.asp   (410 words)

  
 4wheelz—Auburn—Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The company was producing automobiles with modest success during the WW I when shortages of materials forced the plant to close.
Auburn Automobile Company was bought by group of Chicago investors including chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr.
Cord purchased Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company in 1926 the company was well known for its racing and passenger cars.
www.4wheelz.net /makes/auburn-main-page.htm   (301 words)

  
 The Auburn
Chief Auburn engineer James Crawford was given the task of pulling the six cylinder out of the Auburns and replacing it with the straight eight.
The Auburn 8-120 was introduced in 1929, the 8-130 in 1930..
Cord focused the Auburn on a "single straight eight motor, the 8-98, built by Lycoming, the first center X bracing on a rear wheel drive car, Lovejoy hydraulic shocks, Bijur lubrication, semi-elliptical suspension in the front and the rear, and a LGS Freewheeling Unit." The Auburn was offered for $1,195-$1,395 ($945-$1,195 less the Freewheeling Unit).
www.carmemories.com /cgi-bin/viewexperience.cgi?experience_id=564   (1426 words)

  
 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum
AUBURN March 7, 2006; The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum galleries and staff can now stay warm thanks to local support from area utilities, a local foundation and Women's Association.
Laura Brinkman, Executive Director of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, appreciates the help given to the museum by those local utilities, the foundation and the Women's Association.
The not-for-profit Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is located in the restored 1930 art deco administrative building of the former Auburn Automobile Company.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2006/03/07/212600.html   (369 words)

  
 Joyrides | Great Depression killed America's most revered autos
From 1900 to 1937, the town of Auburn, Ind., produced some remarkable automobiles and the remnants of their greatness are still located in and around Auburn.
The W.H. Kiblinger Co. was another high-wheeler maker in Auburn which eventually became part of Auburn Automobile Co. Kiblinger cars were made from 1907 to 1909, when it was sued for patent infringement by a St. Louis company building the Success high-wheeler.
Auburn, Ind., has become the capital of the old-car hobby, site of the Auburn-Duesenberg-Cord Museum in the former Auburn Automobile Co. headquarters and of the Kruse Classic Car Auction operation.
info.detnews.com /joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=140   (1827 words)

  
 Auburn Tours, Barossa Valley, South Australia
The 1935 Auburn Phaeton was lovingly restored by the current owner and tour operator.
The business "Auburn Tours" began in the same year and to date many guests from all over the world have travelled in this rare automobile while savouring the delights of the unique wine region that is the "Barossa Valley".
Over the years he has owned numerous motorcycles and prestige automobiles, but his most satisfying achievement has been the restoration of his Grandfather's 1935 Auburn.
www.auburntours.com.au /history.htm   (316 words)

  
 Classics.com - Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum
More than 100 of the most beautiful classics are on display at the former headquarters of the Auburn Automobile Company in Auburn, Indiana.
Featuring the three great marques of the Golden Age of the automobile that have been manufactured in Auburn, the museum illustrates the motoring culture from its beginning in the last century, through the decades of this century.
Auburn is situated in the northeast of Indiana, at the intersection of I-69 and State Road 8 - 20 miles north of Fort Wayne and 35 miles south of the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/I-90).
www.classics.com /acdmus.html   (200 words)

  
 News-Sentinel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Made in both Auburn and Connersville, Cords were owned by the Marx Brothers and by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer who created Tarzan.
While most Detroit automobiles came in basic fl, Cord's models were often painted orange, yellow, green and red.
Auburns sold for around $1,500, at a time when Fords and Chevrolets could be had for under $500.
jordan.fortwayne.com /ns/heartland/2000/1920/roar6.php   (985 words)

  
 City of Auburn, Alabama - Growth Boundary Information
The Auburn Village Centers Strategic Development Concept presents a new approach for shaping the City of the future.
In contrast, when automobile accessibility is the community’s primary consideration for land uses on a future land use map, or for commercial zoning approvals in a commercial or general development district, the inevitable result is Auburn’s Opelika Road and South College Street, and not close behind some of East University, Glenn Avenue and Dean Road.
The Village Centers Strategic Development Concept was tested in a number of key areas throughout Auburn, both as new development and as a retrofit for improving existing areas.
www.auburnalabama.org /growth/villages/auburn.htm   (824 words)

  
 Thoughts at Large - Some reflections on Auburn and how it got this way... - Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In nearly 20 years of watching Auburn lurch from one thing to another, I've noticed that fear is the most convenient excuse for inaction.
In Auburn, there was another circumstance that shaped a culture of political passivity: the presence of perfectly huge amounts of money in the hands of local industrial families and their retainers.
Auburn is now too big to expect the public to buy the notion that a small bunch of people know what's best for the rest of us, but the baggage of a passive political tradition still holds us back.
maxpages.com /auburn2000/Thoughts_at_Large - !http://maxpages.com/auburn2000/Thoughts_at_Large   (772 words)

  
 Auburn Automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Auburn Automobile Historical Marker, Auburn, IN Auburn was a brand name of United States automobiles from 1900 through 1936.
Eckhart's sons, Frank and Morris, began making automobiles on an experimental basis before entering the business in earnest, absorbing two other local carmakers and moving into a larger plant in 1909.
The Auburn Automobile Company also had a manufacturing plant in Connersville, Indiana, that occupied a facility formerly owned by the Lexington Motor Company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auburn_Automobile   (490 words)

  
 Auburn, Indiana Attractions; Home of the Classics
Auburn's attractions include two beautiful and ornately decorated Museums, which are the original factory buildings where Auburn and Cord automobiles were manufactured.
The Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Museum houses classic, vintage automobiles from the early 1900's up to WW II era vehicles.
For a week at the end of September each year, Auburn hosts a traditional county fair, complete with 4-H contests, a variety of merchants, and a ride and game-packed Midway.
www.auburn-in.com /attractions.asp   (208 words)

  
 The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club Rolls into Auburn again
The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club celebrated their 50th Anniversary reunion in Auburn, Indiana this past Labor Day weekend.
The following year the annual reunion was moved to, the birthplace of the Auburn Automobile Company, in Auburn, Indiana.
Automobile Quarterly will be releasing a book with Glenn Prays’ story later this year.
www.milestonemotorcars.com /auburn_cord_duesenberg_club_roll.htm   (925 words)

  
 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum News Release - Museum prepares for busy festival weekend
AUBURN – The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is ready to welcome the thousands of visitors to Auburn over Labor Day weekend for the annual Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival.
The first annual “Connecting Rods Brunch” for former employees and family members connected with the Auburn Automobile Company or Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company will be held at the museum Saturday, September 2 from 10 a.m.-Noon.
The new Connecting Rods program is dedicated to documenting personal, family or organizational ties to the Auburn Automobile Company and the employees.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2006/08/28/020095.html   (575 words)

  
 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum
Situated in the northeast corner of the state of Indiana at the intersection of I-69 and State Road 8, 20 miles north of Fort Wayne and 35 miles south of the Indiana toll Road, is Auburn, Indiana, home to the Auburn Cord Dusenberg Museum.
Filled with lavish motorcars from the golden age of the automobile, when driving a luxury car was an exultant experience, the museum evokes elegance and grandeur from another era.
Kruse Gallery of Early Auburn Automobiles: Showcase for cars built during 1904 to 1924 and appointed as a dealer's showroom of the early 1920s.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/art_museums/43978   (549 words)

  
 Joyrides | Fabulous trio: The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum
The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Ind. displays outstanding examples of these cars in a handsome 1930 building that was the administration headquarters and showroom of the Auburn Automobile Company.
Auburn, a small town north of Fort Wayne, was quite the hotbed of automobile innovation at the turn of the last century, with 11 brands of cars built by eight different companies before World War I. Many of their names would fade into obscurity -- Auburn Motor Buggy,
While Henry Ford was making automobiles in every color as long as it was fl, the Indiana carmakers seemed to be opening up the paint box and grabbing any bright color that caught their eye.
info.detnews.com /joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=92   (937 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Auburn's automotive history continues to be the town's richest legacy.
By the end of the year, the brothers' fledgling side business ­­ titled "The Auburn Automobile Company" ­­ was producing and selling its own horseless carriages.
Despite it failure in the past, the building now serves as home of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and is a focal point of the wildly successful, similarly named annual festival.
www.kpcnews.net /special-sections/cruising2/cruising9.html   (1968 words)

  
 1936 Auburn Model 852
This rakish, powerful sporting automobile was a preferred driver's choice during the rip-roaring mid-1930s.
However, the Auburn Automobile Company along with Duesenberg and Cord were struggling to recover financially after the Depression years.
Therefore this 1936 model Auburn is almost identical to the 1935 model; and by mid-1937 neither Auburn, Cord, nor Duesenberg were building any automobiles.
www.cantonclassiccar.org /featured/4.htm   (124 words)

  
 Cruise-IN.com - Indiana built automobiles sorted by name
A list of Indiana-built automobiles sorted by city is also included in the book.
Early lists about the actual number of automobiles made in the United States started at 1,500 and then progressed to about 2,500.
This is the accepted definition for recognizing the start of commercial automobile production by a number of manufacturers in the United States in 1896.
www.cruise-in.com /resource/cisbuilt.htm   (348 words)

  
 Classic Cars Museum
Housed in the original building that was used by the Auburn Automobile Company as their showroom and administrative building, the The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is considered to be one of the most beautiful automotive museums in the world.
There are more than 100 beautiful Classic Cars, from the horseless carriages of the 1890's to the muscular sports cars of today, exhibited in this spectacular building of the Auburn Automobile Company headquarters.
Auburn is located in Northeast Indiana at the intersection of I-69 and State Road 8,
www.classiccar.com /museums/auburn.php   (183 words)

  
 Auburn, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Founded in 1836 by Wesley Park (1811-1868), the city is the county seat of DeKalb County
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, Indiana, a National Historic Landmark that was once the headquarters and showroom of the Auburn Automobile Company.
These automotive-related events are the legacy of the fact that the Auburn Automobile Company, which went out of business in the late 1930s, had its headquarters and a factory in Auburn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auburn,_Indiana   (878 words)

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