Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Co.

Dallas E. Winslow purchased Auburn Automobile Company's remaining equipment and inventory in June 1938 and organized the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. It initially kept orphaned Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg cars usable through replacement parts, complete component manufacture, service and later factory restoration; one final Duesenberg Model J was assembled from remaining stock by 1940, but ordinary prewar production did not resume. Glenn Pray bought the company and Auburn/Cord rights in 1960 and moved the operation to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His associated Cord operation produced the rear-engined, eight-tenths-scale Sportsman 8/10 in 1964–1966. ACD then introduced the full-size Ford-V8 Auburn 866 Speedster in 1968 and the dual-cowl 874 Phaeton in 1974–1975, ending vehicle manufacture in 1981 while continuing parts, restoration and service. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club recognizes Pray's cars as second-generation or continuation vehicles. The modern company remains a restoration and parts specialist under the Pray family; its continuation output is kept separate from original Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg totals.

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