For me these auburn's were the first glimpse of what muscle cars became

Wow! What an impressive build! 🤩

I think someone spent months designing this car at the drawing board, now comes someone and decides to redo it in his debatable good taste !!! Design studios are there for something man !!!

what kind of person takes the mic out of the hands of the interviewer ?

Remember that this car was customized by John D'Agostino for Mel Whitney, to Mel's tastes. John has been around for a long time and runs a quality shop, I will forgive him for conflating Packard into Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg - he's a customizer, not a historian. I'm not sure if Speedster Motorcars is still making new 1936 replica Speedsters, but I do believe that they favored using Chevy 350 engines that provide reliable power and are popular with street rod builders. I would like to see someone build one of these with a Cadillac flathead V8 that did have the exhaust exit out the top of the engine and could make those side pipes functional all the way. I like the widened front and rear fenders and the rear fender skirts and the one off lower chrome, the steering wheel is a good choice. I would have preferred to have used Auburn center wheel caps and a different color for the car.

So many stupid comments out of all 16. Let's focus on the car. You either like it or you don't. I love this thing.

Drool....

The automobile is very beautiful! The owner is very rude grabbing the interviewer's mike! Andy not Annmarie!

please take the top off

Yep, A, C, Doozy.

“Auburn, Cord and Packard done in same factory....right.?”.....actually wrong.....not Packard, but instead Duesenberg ....they were all under same ownership group

@ridermak4111

4 жыл бұрын

Bentley Nut Yep, and the Duesenberg was actually made in Indianapolis, and only as a running chassis. They never made any bodywork. Custom coach builders from around the world took delivery of the chassis and created the custom ordered body.

@seanhoward8025

7 ай бұрын

Nope. No Duesenbergs were built at either the Auburn or Connersville, IN plants. They were all unfinished chassis from the cowl back and done at the Washington Blvd Duesenberg plant down in Indianapolis. The factory bodies, known as "La Grande", were supplied as body-in-white from Union City Body, also run by the Cord Corporation. I'm not sure where these were completed, it could have been at the Auburn, IN facility. As for the Packards, some of the Packard Darrins were built at Central Manufacturing, once owned by Cord, down in Connersville, IN. I believe this is what he's referring to...and he would be correct.

@seanhoward8025

7 ай бұрын

​​@@ridermak4111Read my comment above. Duesenberg, in order to increase profits, started offering Buehrig and Newport-designed bodies, built in Union City, under the name "La Grande", much to the displeasure of Le Baron. These were, in fact, in house bodies sold by Duesenberg.

Gorgeous car!! But a cheesy engine, took away the classiness of the car.

@markg7030

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a Viper V10 or BMW V12.

Fact: Auburn, Cord and Packard are in NO way related. Cord and Auburn are part of E.L. Cord's Empire known as the Cord Corporation. Packard is a totally unrelated corporation known as the Packard Motor Car Company.

@seanhoward8025

7 ай бұрын

FACT: What he's speaking about is the Central Manufacturing Company in Connersville, IN, which until it's bankruptcy in 1937, was owned by the Cord Corporation. It was where all of the Cord 810/812s and some Auburns were built in 1936. I believe all of the Speedster bodies were built at Union City Body and assembled in Auburn, as they were halo cars for the Auburn dealers. Now enter the Darrin Packards soon after. Central Manufacturing was restarted after the Cord bankruptcy as a separate entity. Howard "Dutch" Darrin, who'd been building custom Packard 120s for the Hollywood elite out in LA, was commissioned by Packard to do some factory models. Darrin had the initial Packard 160 bodies done at the Connersville Body plant. When Central couldn't keep up due to government orders, Dutch had the remaining bodies done at Hess & Eisenhart in Ohio. So...he's correct in saying Cords, Auburns and Packards...some of the most beautiful cars ever made, came out of the same Connersville, IN factory.

They ruined that car

Taking a classic 1936 Auburn and making it a lowrider is a sin. You've destroyed something that can never be replaced to feed a narcissistic need for attention. You might as well have dismantled it and turned it into a refrigerator.

@ridermak4111

3 жыл бұрын

Not to worry, none of this car is Auburn speedster. It’s a fiberglass phony.

@chrishenniker5944

2 жыл бұрын

This is what would have been done when the car was new.