Customs Auburn Streamline Custom Dreams come true

Hi chrisser !
A scaled down version would not scale down the inside seating room and therefor lose its luxury proportions , there are several attempts on making boattail versions on smaller bodys but nothing beats Auburn (I think) when it comes to the outlandich size compared to transport two people in an roadster body together with its fantastic design , well I guess FigoniFalachi were in a cl*** of their own when it came to outlandich but still . Ofcause the Yjob is a later boattail looking design and not that big and I think Ive seen three cars built n that idea by flipping a hood behind the seat area , two roadsters (?CA built) and on from Finland made into a 3W all three originated in -49-52 Chevys . Between the Yjob and LeSabre there is alot of unbuilt luxury custom ideas that is in great need of being built but thats another subject !
The hotrod your showing is in its own a brilliant design , the late fourties and early fifties tracknose hotrods with fully molded bodys for maximum streamlining are my absolute favorit hotrods possibly since its alot of custom sheetmetalwork involved and the flowing design ! To cover the wheels with Auburn looking fenders in one of these speciments would ofcause loose its hotrod roots but might work , photoshoppers line up ..... start dreaming !
Wolf

 

TinWolf yes the Rikster is great to work with he did 3 photo shop renderings of my 36 Roadster build & a couple more to come in the future. I hope to get my building expansion finished this year so the project can move beyond the gathering parts stage.We will have about 100 body mods on it when finished. No uglys here just clean smooth lines. I have always been a fan of the Auburn boat tail. I had a California Custom coach kit back in the 1980's. To bad you are so far away I would love to be involved in the body build.

 

Hi Radio King !
Lars (also a Swede) with his sheetmetal cl***es are making magic , seeing that youtube thing really makes me run out to the shop and starting to shape something up . Wonder about the origin of that project , looks like an older buck possibly something he borrowed or an order for a customer ! I dont know about the "1-2-3" thing thou , mountains can be moved but it takes unreal workload to do it . After the skin is made for this car there still needs to be a complete car created under it , I visited such a project last fall , one guy here in Sweden that have made a ?-31 Auburn V12 with several parts from original Auburns , V12 Engine , wheels and bumpers , still the making of a frame from scrach and the making of the body outer and inner stuff is mindboggeling , my hat off to a fantastic effort !
Wolf

 

this is awesome.
just picked up my 1938 cadillac series 60 special (bill mitchells first design/car). i was going to try to turn it into one of this original sketches of the really streamlined looks.
got any more pics like the start of the thread?

 

Hi carbuilder !
Im not building this Auburn , Rik helped me get this old dream out of my head (since early nineties) and down on paper , well I guess digital paper ! Since I will probably never build it I figure it needs to be brewing in some other heads as well , hehe ! I on the other hand need to visit your shop to see your fantastic metalshaping skills . I worked for Steve Davis in the early nineties and that was a experience of its own with nonstop custom sheetmetal and heliarc hammerwelding , since then I bin collection cars and building a shop of my own here in Sweden to try to do some of the fantastic stuff they did . Im a traditional custom car nut so collecting "untutched" California sheetmetal have bin a major priority ever since . Now I hope to start build some of them "soooon" , only my -51 Merc are drivable , the others are collecting rust in storage , "the undrivables" , -52 Chevy pickup , -50 Buick Roadmaster sedanette , -41 Cadillac coupe , -40 Merc coupe , -36 Ford , see them at my fotki album:
punch in "fotki+tinwolf" in google search window and it comes up as first serach , "my cars" folder .
Wolf

 

Rik, you're an absolute great artist. I've been amazed at the quality of work you deliver! Keep up the good work.

 

Hi Slik !
Great minds think alike , I love the late therties Cadillacs with its pointed frontends and boulboes front fenders but the tails looks soso compared to the -38-39 Lincolns so why not buy a fourdoor and make the tail to look like Bill Mitchells drawing . When John D´Agostino had the fantastic "Gable" made I thought my head would explode , a landmark in custom building like before and after "Gable" type of landmark I think opend the minds to these kind of customs that is taken so far beyond traditional customs into the land of coachbuilding . There is a Cadillac built by Darrin , I cant fint the pictures now but I found this fantastic thread of full blown V16 Cadillac
:http://images.google.se/imgres?imgu...s%2Bcadillac&ndsp=18&hl=sv&sa=N&start=90&um=1


This Auburn is ofcause coachbuild if it was ever going to happend "way back when" but with less bling and more custom root so therefore ofcause a impossible creation because the only people that bought these kind of jobs back then were the very rich ...
Still in my mind a sleak design that craves to be customized !
Wolf

 

Here are my pics of the Hartmann V-16 - it is virtually impossible to get a photo of any of the cars there because of the lighting.... Fun thread BTW

 

Thankyou thankyou thankyou "ritchj" , this is the one I found on the internet when we added the sweepspear sidetrim and wonderd about if this was really right to ad such sidetrim to a therties coach built custom . The Hartmann V16 is nothing but custom coachbuilt , look at those lines , coming tooling down the road in the late therties got to be the closest thing to a hovering spaceship , unreal , fantastic ride !
Wolf

 

These photos where posted on a thread about the GNRS... but they would look much better here.

The Rick Dore/James Hetfield Auburn custom under construction...

 

These photos where posted on a thread about the GNRS... but they would look much better here.

The Rick Dore/James Hetfield Auburn custom under construction...

 

That grille looks a whole lot better than what they went with!

 

I wish they would have kept the Auburn grill on the finished car.

 

Wow! Thanks! I haven't seen these pics.

 

Here it is at autorama Sacramento

Dave Hitch

 

Rik,

I noticed the use of Graham-Paige bumpers in the article that you posted of the Auburn based custom.

I have seen the Graham-Paige bumpers used on a similar car and it still exists. It was mentioned in a small article in (July 1951, Motor Trend). This car was based on a 1929 Auburn Boattail. It is on a Packard ch***is with a Packard Twelve fitted with two superchargers at the time of the photo.

The Auburn donor car was purchased in 1935.

Vintageride

 

Check out my Auburn rendering from July 2010 Rod & Custom.

 

Its only April 2010 over here!

 

Ain't that the truth. The grille they put on it looked like one of those Harbor Freight garden carts, but chromed.... [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]


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I love these cars, the lines the curves. They are quite dashing.

 

I haven't seen it either, but some finnish subscribers got it (based on emails I got from them.)

 

I started own thread of my Auburn Design:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=481659

 

The vents you speak of are actually the woodlites (headlights) sunken into the fenders for headlamps and not vents. I did quite a bit of research on this car while building a '35 Fordor into a carson topped two-door delivery.
The original was lenghthened a foot in the rear quarters. The top was fixed. Mine was removeable. I used the Lexus coupe in-board high beams as a late model approach to the woodlites. Some guy on eBay makes aluminum woodlite copies today.

 

Great thread.

 

G'day Wolf ,
I recently got a 39 Cadillac Sixty Special project. It was designed by a very young Bill Mitchell. It was the 38/9 Sixty Special that ensured his future at GM. Later he took over as GM Chief of Styling from Harley Earl in 1959.
There was a drawing he did that I saw many years ago that stuck in my head. As a Cad fanatic I have longed to do a big bodied late thirties streamlined roadster/phaeton , and that drawing was where I kept coming back to. Over the years I have played around with 53, 57 and 59 Eldos. It's a daring person who can cut up or alter one of these Eldos and so I was happy to just be content with some challenging restorations back to stock. Nevertheless the itch to do something custom from the thirties remained. So when I Googled and found your thread I was gobsmacked to see the drawing first up in your first post.
I presume you have seen the Fran Roxas 34 V16 Cadillacs that recently sold for a million bucks each? http://www.rmauctions.com/CarDetails.cfm?SaleCode=MH12&CarID=r102&Currency=USD
Well this car and the Bill Mitchell drawing is where I plan to go with my 39. Bill Mitchell did that drawing in 1935 I believe . Look at the similarities from the Delahaye by Figoni and Falaschi in 1939 http://www.supercars.net/cars/3608.html I'd love to do a windup windshield like the Delahaye but V'd . The Cord Sportsman is another good example of this look. As well as some of the Darrin bodied Packards.

Mind you I have just finished the body on my 53 Eldo and it is a true factory custom. Basically they lopped the top of the body,doors and cowl and grafted on the swoopy bits. When you see how the 53 Eldo bodies were cut and shut and leaded up in the Fleetwood workshop, it inspires me further to get into it shortly. I'll be changing the blades on my grinder soon so I will keep you posted. Remember it was Cat Steven's who sang " The first cut is the deepest".
Regards. Quentin Hall.

 

Funny to find this thread again from 4 years back. Been a bit of a hiatus for the past year whilst other **** takes precedence. But great to see the germination of ideas and the almost finished result.

 

That is looking Great!

 

Totally agree, that looks good! That customized Auburn in R&C needs either the hump in the front fenders continued forward and upward, or the top of the grill shell pie-cut and laid back.

 

Strangely enough, I ran across this the other day....