1935 Auburn 851SC Speedster

This vehicle was first sold to Mr. Schilling (A. Schilling & Company founded in 1881). After some degree of use by Mr. Schilling, he directed his mechanic to mount the Auburn Speedster body on a Lincoln V12 chassis. The Auburn Speedster – Lincoln V12 chassis hybrid was driven in this configuration for several years by Mr. Schilling and eventually, became the property of Mr. Schilling's mechanic, a man named Mr. Brindle, as the second owner. Mr. Brindle drove this vehicle in Northern California until the 1940s when it was sold. According to Brindle's widow, this car was in California a number of years after WWII. It was eventually purchased by Harrah's Automobile Collection in Reno, Nevada in the early 1960's, in which time the Auburn Speedster body and Lincoln chassis were separated. Evidently, Harrah's Automobile collection needed the Lincoln Chassis for another project.Toronto Car Collector, Terry Radey purchased the Auburn Speedster body and fenders in the early 1970s and, as stated by Mr. Radey, the body had perfect sheet metal and wood framing. Soon after Mr. Radey commissioned Mike Krayetski of Brampton, Ontario to complete a Full Restoration. Krayetski was a body-and-fender man at the Ford plant in Oakville for 17 years; it was then that he began restoring old cars as a hobby.In 1974, Mr, Radey's Auburn Speedster was ready for the show circuit where he won the President's Award at the Hershey AACA meet, a class win at the ACD meet in Auburn, Indiana along with the “Roy Faulkner Award” for Best Auburn. The next owner was Floyd Duvall of Davenport, Iowa who owned the Auburn 851 Speedster for the next 25 years, receiving a Lion Award at the 1992 Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance and another award at the Gilmore Car Museum Classic Car Show. During Mr. Duvall's ownership, the toy company, Ertl, used this Speedster to produce a handsome diecast metal car model, which was very expensive at the time.In 2002, the Auburn was sold to Bill Hudson who used it extensively and eventually sold the car to a collector who commission a complete restoration by a shop in Ontario, R,B. Coach Builders, operated by Reg Beer and his two sons Steve and Martin Beer. They were well known for outstanding restoration work on Rolls-Royce vehicles. While restoring the Auburn Speedster to show quality, they consulted with Auburn Specialists and the ACD Club's technical advisor to make sure the car was correct.