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Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by JEBar » Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:40 pm

without a doubt the finest automobile related museum that we have ever visited is the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum located at 1600 Wayne St, Auburn, IN 46706-3509 ===> http://www.automobilemuseum.org/#home.html .... of the many, many we have visited across the country, there are only a handful of museums I would drive out of my way to get to .... the Auburn Cord Museum is at the top of the list .... the pictures below are a very small sample of what they have on display with info on each
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by CT_Shooter » Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:09 pm

Beautiful machines. Thanks for the photos. It looks like a great place to spend some time. That museum must be -- as they say -- a Duesey! :)
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by JEBar » Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:15 pm

it is truly outstanding .... the Duesenberg shown with the etched glass vent windows belonged to Frank Lloyd Wright .... as also shown, they also have a complete section dedicated to other classic/historic vehicles
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by DWD445 » Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:35 pm

Amazing, heard about it, but not been there. A friend's family had an Austin and I he took it there and sold it after his father passed.
It's been years, but another cool museum is in Cleveland. The Crawford Auto and Aviation Museum.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfor ... ion_Museum
They have a P51 Mustang and many war birds, lots of cars and they had a HUGE steam locomotive, not sure if that's still there.
Worth the trip to Cleve :lol: Lots of good food and beverages too ;)
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by Les » Wed Jan 18, 2017 3:33 am

Wow! Those cars are outstanding. I wonder how much it would cost today to produce works of art like that? I think I know the answer to that one already! ;)
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Post by Deadwood Dutch » Wed Jan 18, 2017 7:45 am

Beautiful old cars, looks like a very interesting museum. Thanks for the tour.
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by clovishound » Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:51 pm

IIRC, we worked on an Avanti in the body shop I worked in during the summers when I was in college back in the early 70s. I remember it was one of the late Studebakers, the Avanti rings a bell. I do remember it was very well made and had a no creep slushbox. You could take your foot off the brake at a light and it would not move forward until you hit the accelerator.
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Re: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Post by weakhand luke » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:14 am

NATMUS, just behind the car museum, is well worth a stop, too.
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