John Benson: Classic Cars/1931 Cord

Artist: John Benson
1949 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1988
Image Size: 12 by 14 inches
Overall Size: 18 by 21.5 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Water Color Paper

In 1926, a man named Erret Lobban Cord founded an automobile empire. With a true talent for salesmanship, Cord had made and lost three fortunes by the time he was twenty-one years old. But, a fascination with the automobile was the quality which won him a place in history. Agreeing to help bring the Auburn Automobile Company out of debt in 1924, Cord spent the next two years organizing what would become Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg -- dubbed a maker of cars "classic among classics." Cord gathered the most talented, ambitious and imaginative engineers in the country to design his cars. In 1931, his company sold 28,130 vehicles -- topping DeSoto, Hudson and Packard in sales for that year. Perhaps the car bearing Cord's own name best remembered today is the 810 model, otherwise known as the "Coffin-nosed Cord." Introduced in 1935, this car was considered a wonder in its day. Featuring front-wheel drive and a preselector gearbox -- a forerunner of automatic transmission -- it was too expensive for most Americans. It had a body of advanced design with retractable headlamps and a wrap-around grille, and it was expensively furnished and most carefully assembled. In 1937, another model -- the 812 -- offered the obviously upper-class feature of a special chauffeur division. Production of the classic Cords was limited by their design, and only 3,000 of the 810 and 812 models were ever produced.

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