Been a long time since I was at the ACD club Festival – 1970 to be specific! And, in some ways, it’s a time warp – downtown Auburn , the Auburn Hotel, have not changed at all. It’s the same. But in other ways, there have been some big improvements – the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum looks better than it ever has, the displays inside are spectacular, and the showroom looks like it did when it opened!
Art Deco styling at it’s Zenith.
ACD Cars in front of the Auburn Hotel, same as the last 60 years!
They Close down the Auburn town square, and let all the crazy car people take it over ! Nowadays they let non-ACD cars in the square too, but it seems like everyone gets along. And, it’s a big crowd too.
Raymond Chandler called. He’s looking for Phillip Marlow at the Auburn Hotel. That is one seriously old-school hotel.
High performance autos from the ’30’s and the 60’s ! a 390 AMX and a Duesenberg!
A Duesenberg V-16 Aircraft engine from the WWI era. note the valve gear and rockers . That’s quite an engine! And it’s a great example of how nice the ACD museum is now!
A new display of race cars, this one a Duesenberg.
And the ACD museum people are getting mighty liberal, enough to allow a Packard 12 and display engine in the room!
So a bunch of the ACD members got together in 1981 and verified the urban legend of the buried Cords !
The Best of Show ACD Festival 2015, the Duesenberg Mormon Meteor! they ran this car at the Duesenberg Thunder run too!
I really like what the ACD club does for the Best of Show winner – they drive the car right into the awards brunch room!
Gordon Beuhrig’s TASCA design concept, here in the ACD Museum. Gordon Beuhrig’s granddaughter and E.L. Cord’s Grandson were honored guests at the ACD parade.
This was the year of the Duesenberg, so there was a tremendous turnout – 29 cars! that’s not something you see everyday!
Rollston convertible victoria.
Murphy Convertible sedan.
Willoughby Sedan
Brunn Riviera Phaeton
Weymann fabric bodied Sedan
Best Exhaust Manifold ever. The seldom seen 8 into 1 manifold for the supercharged Duesenbergs.
And a display chassis