AuburnACD Festivalturns 63
AUBURN, Ind. _ The 63rd annual Auburn Cord Duesen-
berg (ACD) Festival will be held concurrently with the ACD
Club Reunion Aug. 24-31 in and around the ACD Automobile
Museum. The events will begin on the 24th and run through
the following weekend — Labor Day weekend — and are all
dedicated to preserving and enjoying the history of the auto-
mobile.
Events will kick off on the 24th with Cheers to the Festival
at the Auburn Atrium Marketplace. This year’s theme will be
“Sip Sip Hooray, Year of the Model J.” Cost is $50 per person.
A garage tour will follow Sunday with a drive and tour behind
the scenes at local enthusiasts’ garages and their projects. Cost
is $10. The Downtown Cruise-In will be Friday beginning at
10 a.m. around the Courthouse Square. Cost is $10 per ve-
hicle, spectators are free. ACD Club members from around the
world will pilot their machines through the streets of Auburn
all week long, eventually participating in the free Parade of
Classics on Saturday at 1 p.m., which culminates at the Court-
house Square. On Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. modern super-
cars and luxury machines will be on display for “Fast and
Fabulous Downtown.” Cost is $25 per car, free for spectators.
Two major auctions are also big parts of the festivities. RM
Sotheby’s Fall Auburn Auction will return to Auburn Auction
Park from Thursday through Sunday. Roughly 700 collector
cars and trucks will cross the block. Worldwide Auctioneers
will hold its annual Labor Day weekend sale Friday and Satur-
day at its global headquarters in Auburn.
For more information, visit http://www.acdfestival.org and http://www.
acdclub.org.Historicelectriccar to cross block
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. _ Worldwide Auctioneers’ Pa-
cifi c Grove sale during Pebble Beach auction week will in-
clude an original 1898 Riker Electric, owned and raced by
Andrew Riker, founder of the Riker Electric Vehicle Co. Riker
was an early automotive pioneer who went on to become the
head engineer of Locomobile and fi rst president of the Society
of Automotive Engineers. The car was donated to the Henry
Ford Museum in Michigan in 1929 before being returned to
the Riker family in 1985 and has never been offered for public
sale until Worldwide’s Aug. 15 sale.
“This is the most important electric car ever built,” said
Rod Egan, principal and auctioneer for Worldwide. “There are
very few cars of this historic signifi cance in existence and cer-The
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