One of the finest and best-known surviving examples of the first-generation Auburn speedster, the 8-90 Eight offered here was sold in Los Angeles in 1950 for $50, as noted by longtime Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club member Bob Graham in the No.

1992 edition of the Club’s Newsletter .

In it, the car is pictured at the time still in very complete and intact condition.

It is believed that the buyer at that transaction was James Schafer, who worked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

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Schafer subsequently sold the car in 1960 through the offices of Mike McManus’s Atlantic Auto Wreckers in Gardena, California, a well-known source of great Classics in the early days of the hobby, to the famed Harrah’s Automobile Collection in Reno, Nevada.

The Auburn would remain part of the collection for the remainder of its existence, and was pictured in their ownership in Ken Purdy’s Motorcars of the Golden Past and in Dean Batchelor’s Harrah’s Automobile Collection .

As the Harrah’s collection was d...