Vehicle Description
To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION at RM Sothebys' Auburn Fall event, 30
August - 2 September 2018.
Estimate:
$60,000 - $70,000
Offered from a Private CollectionRare upmarket Beverly model with
pleated cloth interiorKnown ownership history since
1938Well-preserved older restoration in Palm Beach Tan over
MaroonOnce exhibited in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile
MuseumFeatured in the July 2005 issue of Hemmings Classic
Car125-hp, 288.6-cu. in. V-8 engine and four-speed pre-selector
manual transmissionClassic Car Club of America (CCCA) Full
ClassicAuburn Cord Duesenberg (ACD) Club Certified Category One
(C-369)
Continuous ownership of this 812 is known back to 1938, when the
Cord was owned by a Mr. Blair. In 1947 it was sold to Dallas
Winslow's Auburn Cord Duesenberg Company, housed in what is today
the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum here in Auburn,
Indiana, and according to its ACD Club Certification documents,
remained in the building well after it became the museum, until
1984. Following several intervening owners, in 2001 it was acquired
by the late Ken McCartney, who would own it for over a decade, and
in whose ownership it was comparison-tested with his 1937 LaSalle
in the July 2005 issue of Hemmings Classic Car. Finished in its
original color scheme of Palm Beach Tan over a correct Maroon
pleated cloth interior with armrests, it is a beautiful example of
this distinctive Indiana-built Full Classic.To view this car and
others currently consigned to this auction, please visit the RM
website at rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/AF18.
