Thread: Beautiful cars.

I couldn't afford to buy an Auburn at the time so I bought a Pachard the same as below.
When the BIL and I drove around in our big thingy's we used to get some looks.

1938 Packard Super 8.

Originally Posted by olbod

My FIL and BIL both owned similar cars as below
Beautifully made and lovely to drive.

1935 Auburn 851 Saloon.
1936 Auburn 8cyl Super Charged Phaeton.

In 1957 aged almost 16 and licenceless I bought a 1935 Auburn Supercharged Eight boat tail roadster for 45 quid I made working on a milk run. Some time later, unable to afford to renew the registration or retread the bald tyres I left it at the roadside. No one, even the wreckers, was interested in buying a car whose makers closed down twenty years before.

Now they are worth six figures unrestored.

The sublime and the ridiculous?

A 1910 Oldsmobile and a baby Bugatti.

The Olds has 42" tyres. It is possibly the second largest passenger car I have ever seen. At the same time Olds made cars about the size of the little Bugatti.


By far the biggest passenger car I have ever seen was a teens Locomobile. A true monster found on a Qld. sheep station in a hay shed nearly complete after near 50 yrs storage. A 16 litre engine.

A Another classy one. A 54-55 Pegaso.

Not to everyones taste but I do like big old Cadillac cruiser convertibles. This is a genuine ex-Elvis car.

I want a '76 Eldorado Biarritz convertible but they are rare.

Another TV star.

This Type 57 Bugatti is a near twin including the colours to the Stuart Murdoch/Henry Dale car I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread.

How many millions?

An elegant rather than flashy French classic.