During World War II, the company continued to make soles – now for combat boots – and also gaskets for so-called "jerry cans."
Another odd sedan had fins like a Pontiac, a front grille like a Kaiser Traveller, with the general shape of a forward-look Chrysler.
One popular coloring feature was the application of sprayed on silver coatings for the windows, grilles, bumpers, and other highlighted areas.
A life-sized horseshoe game (as they were rubber, they didn't do as much damage when one was hit in the head) was labeled as Auburn "safe play" toys.
The toy company was sold in 1959 and dies were moved to Deming, New Mexico, in a transaction described by author Jonathan Kwitny (1979) in his book, Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace, as an example of the penetration of a legitimate business by organized crime.
Auburn Rubber in Deming went out of business in 1969, and its toy cars could be found in retail stores through the early 1970s.
The Deming toys are probably the Auburn Rubber products most often seen for sale at flea markets or on eBay today.