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£480,950

1929 Auburn 8-90 Eight Speedster

United States • 20 Aug 2022

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This 1929 Auburn 8-90 Eight Speedster is a well-known, authentic example with a rich history, including ownership by Harrah's Automobile Collection and the Cord family. It boasts an award-winning older restoration by RM Auto Restoration, a 1st in Class win at the 2001 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and ACD Club Category 1 certification.

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The car description indicates that the car is in excellent overall condition. It has had an award-winning older restoration and has been ACD Club Certified Category 1. While it is not in perfect condition, it is stated to be in the first rank of surviving early speedsters.

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2972337

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The Auburn 8-90 Eight Speedster offered here is among the finest and best-known surviving authentic examples of the model.

It was owned in the early 1950s by longtime Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club member, Bob Graham of California, known to readers of the Club’s Newsletter as “The World’s Greatest Car-Watcher.” In one such article, published in the No.

10 1992 edition, Graham recounted that the Auburn was “bought for $50.00 in L.A.

Calif.

1950.

Went to Harrah’s Museum.” One of the longest-term denizens of the famed Harrah’s Automobile Collection, it was refinished but otherwise remained an original, well-preserved car.

During its time in the collection, it was featured in several well-known books, including Motorcars of the Golden Past by Ken Purdy and Harrah’s Automobile Collection by Dean Batchelor.

At the 1985 Harrah’s dispersal auction, the Auburn was bought by a very special personage: Sally Cord Hummel, daughter of its manufacturer, E.L.

Cord.

Mrs.

Hummel put the car on an...