AUBURN, IN (AAPDN) – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, one of Indiana’s largest tourist events, which is over Labor Day weekend, has been cancelled.
A tradition and set to celebrate its 64th year, “After consultation with local health officials, local government and our valued partners, we have determined that the responsible course of action would be to cancel the annual festival this year,” said Leslie Peel, the festival’s Executive Director. “We will shift our focus to planning for the 2021 festival, which we hope to make bigger and better than ever…”
This year’s festival theme was “Women behind the Wheel.” Club members from across the nation annually bring more than 200 classic cars to the festival for a parade and other public and private events, which this year also earmarked ACD’s Club’s 120th anniversary of the Auburn Automobile Company, which manufactured the three car brands the club collects. The club said it will conduct a virtual reunion this year.
“As always the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival organization remains committed to celebrating and promoting the unique automobile heritage of Auburn, not just over Labor Day weekend,” said Mike Boswell, Board President of the ACD Festival.