AUBURN, Ind. — With RM selling the Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Ind., earlier this year, Worldwide Auctioneers is now the sole collector car auction company to conduct a sale in “The Home of the Classics” during the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club Reunion and Festival over Labor Day weekend.
With the plethora of events that had become rooted at the Auburn Auction Park, previously located across Interstate 69, Worldwide Auctioneers decided to not only supersize its annual collector car auction this year, expanding it from a Saturday-evening catalog sale to three days with five collector-car segments, but it also initiated Destination Auburn. This was a combination of events on both the Worldwide Auctioneers campus and its neighbors at the Early V8 Ford Foundation Museum. Destination Auburn included a swap meet and a car corral, both long-standing events that dated back to when the Auburn Auction Park across the highway was owned by the former Kruse International.
With all the other events around it, it was still hard to ignore the primary event on this site — Worldwide Auctioneers’ 15th annual collector car auction. Its 200,000-sq.-ft. headquarters building was overflowing with cars, with most of the Thursday segment of consignments housed in tents next to the building. Helping to fill the
