The Auburn Douze, a stylish race car for 1940. ( RRM Sothebys )
Story by Graham Gauld
Not a day goes by without some mention in the newspapers about alternatives to using petrol to drive our cars such as electricity or even hydrogen. So how about one of the older alternatives, LPG, liquid petroleum gas, such as propane. Not only that but let’s take an extreme example of this powering a racing car, around 80 years ago; the Auburn Douze.