Oldtimer Auburn

***SOLD*** 1935 AUBURN SPEEDSTER 866 - GENN PRAY

In English

***SOLD*** 1935 AUBURN SPEEDSTER 866 - GENN PRAY 1971

Auburn Speedster no. 97 of 113 - built by Genn Pray in 1971 an 'original Auburn', do not compare with other copy Auburns replicas offered on this site, this is a real ACD AUBURN

When the Auburn Automobile Company closed its doors in 1937 and never reopened, Glenn Pray bought the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Company, including all patents, in 1960, along with investor Dallas Winslow, to sell the remaining ACD parts stock to owners and restorers of existing cars. Genn Pray, an engineer was restoring Cords in the 1950's when he bought the Auburn Automobile Company in Indiana in the late 1950's and moved it with all parts and machinery to Broken Arrow Oklahoma. After this (1960 -1981) he started the "rebuild" of the Auburn CORD (300x pieces) and the Auburn SPEEDSTERS (113x pieces).

Genn Pray had a very special arrangement with Ford where he bought OEM factory new Ford chassis with virtually the same wheelbase as the original Auburns supplemented with an OEM Ford V8 'big block', which was used in the CORD as well as in the 866 SPEEDSTER.

Genn THEREFORE does not use an old donor car like other suppliers who wanted to follow in Genn's footsteps to success.

This SPEEDSTER is therefore an originally built Auburn with chassis no. 97 of a series of 113.

Genn sadly passed away in the 1980s. And besides the 113 built Speedsters, no others were built, which makes this no. 97 a special collector's item.