You must be young.
Auburn is a classic American company. The car you described was the
Auburn boat-tailed speedster, ca. 1935 (I'm working from memory), powered
by a supercharged Lycoming engine. At this point, Auburn was part of the
Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Co. of Indiana, hence the pipes similar to
Duesenberg. You should find pictures in any good history of american makes.
I suspect the R in the license stands for "Replica." Real ones are very
rare, but there are good replicas.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
On Wed, 15 Jun 1994, Croaker the Physician wrote:
> [Possibly no B-C content, depending on the answer :-]
>
> I saw a very interesting car in Atherton yesterday, and I thought I'd see if
> anyone knew what it was. Biggest clue is probably the licence plate
> "R AUBURN", although if "Auburn" is the car make, it isn't one I'm familiar
> with.
>
> It looked to be mid-30s or early '40s vintage, large-ish luxury two-seater
> drop-head coupe, either British or maybe American. The radiator ornament
> wasn't one I was familiar with (Rolls, Bentley, Packard). The car had a
> square-rigged body with a boat tail, and a long bonnet with a number (3 or 4
> anyway) of chrome exhaust pipes on each side coming out the side and down
> through the wings, like on a Deusenberg. On the side of the bonnet in chrome
> script were the words "Super Charged". I think it also had large headlights
> mounted between the bonnet and the wing, like pre MG-TF T-series cars.
>
> Anyway, it was beautiful, and I have never seen one like it before. Any
> ideas?
>
> markl
>
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