Auburn
Auburn was the accessible face of E.L. Cord's extraordinary empire — the Indiana triumvirate of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg that defined American automotive glamour between the wars. Its supercharged 851 Speedster of 1935, boattailed and guaranteed to exceed 100 mph, remains one of the defining shapes of the Art Deco era. The company did not survive 1937, but Auburns sit permanently in the front rank of American classics, fixtures of the great concours lawns and the CCCA Full Classic roster.
Auburn 8-120 Boattail Speedster
The Leamy-Sakhnoffsky boat-tail — the ultimate-specification 120-horsepower first-generation Boattail Speedster, built in roughly 55 examples through June 1929 and the direct ancestor of the supercharged 851 / 852.
Auburn 851 / 852 Speedster
Gordon Buehrig's boat-tail Speedster — the most theatrical American body of the 1930s, supercharged Lycoming inline-eight.