History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

[SIZE=-1]<spacer type="horizontal" size="20"> The Marx brothers show off one of their four Cords, a 1930 L-29 Phaeton.[/SIZE]

 

A Model A Duesenberg with early racing driver Cliff Bergere behind the wheel.

 

Babe Ruth was given an Auburn, 1926. Nice deal.

 

Below, safely parked under a tent next to one of the circus trucks, is the Tom Mix 'death car', the 1937 Cord Phaeton convertible he was killed in in 1940. The truck on the right is a GMC tour bus.

 

An airborn Duesenberg four cylinder walking beam engined car at the Elgin Road Race in the mid teens.

 

Fred Duesenbergs first engine which had rotary valves on his motorcycle in 1902.

 

A Duesenberg 16-valve walking beam racing engine converted for aircraft use.

 

Nice old pictures of Cords in Europe.

The first is from Sweden and shows a very nice phaeton.



The next picture shows a cabriolet in France.

 

Fred Duesenberg in on of his early cars that he built for Mason w/a 4-cyl. walking beam engine. He won his class at the tough Algonquin Hill Climb in 1912. The car was called the Goat.....kind of looks like one.

 

Didn't we cover goats already? 1931 L29 Cord speedster designed by Philip O. Wright for the Paris Salon. Body by LaGrande.

 

L29 Cord Convertible Sedan

 

1936 Cord cabriolet in a freight yard.

 

Customized Auburn Boat Tail Speedster

 

Frank Lloyd Wrights L 29 Cord which he wrecked in a collision with a parked bread truck in Wisconsin.

 

That is really a neat car.....

 

1931-33 Auburn Speedster

 

Great looking cars. Another Cord. Photo from Eastman Collection, U. C. Davis.

 

1929 Duesenberg J Judkins Coupe... One of the best looking three window coupes ever.

Any guess where the idea of chopping a top came from?

 

Jewelry........ A supercharged SJ Duesenberg straight eight engine.

 

Post 374 - different view.

 

Is it a Cord? Is it an Auburn? No, It's a Corburn!

The car was an original Auburn 852 Boat tail Speedster Supercharged 1936 RHD only 300 ever built, and imported into South Africa by Roy Evans, who it is believed was a car dealer. In the late 30's it was raced in the SA GP in East London and had it's mudguards removed for better handling etc. Unfortunately during the race a woman ran across the track and was hit by the Auburn, damaging the front extensively. The car was then sold on. Someone (it's not known who) rebuilt the car with Cord front mudguards as well as Cord bonnet, grille and instruments - everything else on the car was all Auburn.

 

I'm done for a while........ don't know why but I have a splitting headache.

 

Here is a wonderful picture of a CORD in front of the Fluminense Yacht Club, in Rio de Janeiro. The owner of the car was treating a couple of friends - Mr and Mrs STHALL -who had just arrived from the USA:

 

An asprin fixed my headache.........Here is Roy Evans Auburn.

 

This Duesenberg was sold new to Erik Akerlund from Sweden in 1930.

The car was wiped off the face of the Earth in Sweden in the early 1940s.

 

Ab Jenkins Mormon Meteor at the Bonneville Salt Flats 1931

 

Old Duesenberg

 

Here is the very same engine when it was being restored...... It is the Duesenberg eight valve walking beam 4-cyl. racing car that IMS Museum has.

 

Cool

 

This photo is believed to be of Jean Harlow and an Auburn Speedster taken in Los Angeles at the Coliseum just after the Olympics.