I initially read that as you saying you went there from Auburn, a city in California. But it now appears to me that the car is an Auburn, possibly an Auburn 8-Eighty-Eight Sedan.
@Seanette and I went over Tioga Pass several months ago, as part of our quest to get high. That was in our first Jeep, which, some months after that, sank. We have yet to go there in the second Jeep that we got as a successor to the first. I think the highest we’ve been in the second Jeep was at Donner Summit, at around seven thousand feet.
[Note to @Seanette — At some point, later in the year, when weather is more favorable for it, we really need to explore Old Donner Pass Road.]