Photo courtesy Ball State University.
A team of Indiana college students are going farther than most of their peers to understand our automotive past.
Twenty-six Thirteen undergraduate students at Ball State University in Muncie ? a town with a terrific automotive heritage in its own right ? are doing the legwork to produce a video documentary on the people and cars of Auburn, Indiana. The project members started out late last month at Auburn?s garage tour, during which local car enthusiasts invited visitors to examine their collector cars at home. The photo shows the students examining a 1935 Auburn Speedster, but Auburn being Auburn, there will be a strong showing by Duesenberg and Cord, too. The project, directed by Ball State assistant technology professor Hans Kellogg, will have the students profiling 38 vintage cars from Auburn to Jackson, Michigan, plus events along the way.
?Beginning with the inception of the Duesenberg sports car, to the subtle elegance of the Auburn automobile and innovative engineering of the Cord, the community of Auburn has held a special place in America?s automotive past,? Kellogg said. ?The goal for these students will be to create a feature-length documentary film exploring the heart and soul of these three distinct automobiles. Together, each line portrays a subtle blend of Indiana?s past, its people and its machines, its technology and the drive of the industrialist E.L. Cord, who saw opportunity where others viewed insolvency. It is a rich past that will provide an extraordinary immersive experience as students explore the story surrounding these three motorcars.?
Kellogg and the students, gathered from a variety of majors at the college, will work on the film for the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. They expect to finish the film by the end of the current semester.
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