Curt and Janine Schulze restore Auburns and reproduce Auburn parts through Auburns Midwest, their Prescott, Wis., business. Yet their favorite Auburn may very well be the featured unrestored 1935 Custom Six sedan.
“It is one of our favorites,” Curt said. “When I spend two to three years building one and get a junior and a senior award, they’re kind of special, but then they go in the background… and they almost always go into storage. This car is in a position where we can take it out. We just took it out last week.”
Auburns were meant to be driven, a fact pushed by its builder that promoted the Auburn’s prowess at speed. The speed exploits of Ab Jenkins behind the wheel of a 1935 Auburn Speedster were heralded in ads and in film footage of the day, although by the time Jenkins pushed the Super-Charged Speedster to break 70 speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats that year, the Cord Corp. was already a master at promoting its cars in speed and endurance runs.
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