Yeah buddy congratulations you got it =) Be sure to tune in tomorrow it will either be tomorrow or Tuesday for a 1940 Studebaker commander.. =) that’s what’s next on what it’s like
Most definitely we should do that more often I can interview you next time lol =) Or maybe we could just sit around and talk cars like what are our favorite cars are or innovation that took place years ago that they’re trying to pass off as new now
Easily one of the most beautiful cars of all time. Saw one at a show today and just stared at it for a long time and kept seeing new lines I didn’t notice before
I love the design of this car.. The four-door has way more space in it, both head room and actual space. There is more space in this than a packard darrin.. and the gauges are nicer and interior was better. And way more space the only downer is visibility isn’t great and can’t see anything out the rear so side mirrors are a must
Cord, Cord. This is one of my favorite cars; I have a diecast model of this same convertible on my desk (except in maroon). I was at a car show last Fall and came upon a guy who was sitting at the side of the road in his Auburn Boattail Speedster. He had run out of gas! Since he was on a curve, I got behind him and used my flashers to warn other cars until someone came from the show with gas. On the 810/812, the wheels were originally solid, but the brakes tended to overheat, so Cord put a perimeter of holes to air-cool the brakes. Oldsmobile did a tribute to these wheels on the 1966 Toronado, which was the next production American front wheel drive car introduced 30 years after the 810; the Toronado grille and pop-up headlights also harkened back to the Cord. She's a Beauty is one of my favorite tunes from the 1980s; the Tubes with a medley of their hit! Great video!
One of the most stunning vehicles ever assembled. And so many advanced features, that would later become industry standards. WYR: Oh boy……Auburn/812 tie and the Packard (because it’s always the Packard). Song - She’s a Beauty by The Tubes. Thanks as always, great coverage ~ Chuck P.S. Thanks for the tip on Vintage Cars, greatly enjoy it as well.
Great choices you got the song too I picked that song because this is a gorgeous car and they always talk about engine problems I don’t think that there could been a better song than that one If you’re tall the packer Darren doesn’t fit tall people but the cord well the only downer with the cord is visibility..
1) 812, duh! LOL (in that dark blue, plz!) 2) 812! Well, thank you, Jay, for making me leave a huge puddle of drool on my keyboard! There are some iconic cars in our history. The '56 Continental Mark ll. '57 Chevy. '59 Caddy. '64 1/2 Mustang. '73 Riviera boat-tail. '77 Mark V (oh, yes I went there!)... But, above all else, these Cord's are by far the most beautiful rolling pieces of artwork to ever grace our roads. Absolutely gorgeous!!! Funny how, 33 years later, AMC transplanted the back seat into it's Gremlins though... LOL. Thanx, Jay! You frikkin' rock!
"What a gorgeous place to be" Ha! love that comment! Cool radio dial! WYR 1. 1929 Cord L29. Classically beautiful. 2. Gotta go with the DelaHaye! Exquisite execution of all those horizontal lines with those pontoon fenders. Stunning!
Jay, this was a really great episode. I think you did a really good job setting the tone of the era at the beginning, and providing background on the company. And what a car!
Enough people that could afford these during the great depression just goes to show you. Just like today with $100,000 toys, RV's, Pickup Trucks, and the economy is supposed to be bad? This is what happens when you live on credit. My grandparents were born in the 20's and told me how it was in those days before the crash, and then after. Both of them were determined never to buy stuff on credit if at all possible. If they didn't have the cash to buy something, they just did without it.
Great video. Love this car. Reminds me of Cruella de Ville’s Duezenberg. You know the Auburn Speedster was used in an opening scene for Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind”. It had Lauren Becaul as a love interest for Rock Hudson, 1953 I think. The car was great, bright yellow with the Cord snout and side pipes. They look so aggressive. The Soviet rocket propulsion exhausts used a similar system to increase the thrust.
I've loved '36 & '37 Cords since I was a little kid in the 1960's. My Dad bought me a model (Monogram) of the '37 Cord when I was about 8 years old and he and I spent a couple weeks putting it together. We actually saw one on the road in Kansas in about 1968 during a vacation at a Motel. My Dad was a no nonsense guy and always bought "practical" cars like Plymouths and Ramblers. He clearly did appreciate Automotive art when he saw it though. He described a Cord driving down a road in Arkansas when he was about 18 in Fayetteville Arkansas and said he felt like he was seeing something from outer space!
I think you are correct about being one of the very first with flush rear break lights. Hell of a snout, but what is with the trunk? Would love to drive this beauty.
Hi Jay!: What can I say it's an 812 Cord! They are SO nice looking! Actually the first front wheel drive racing cars were made by J Walter Christie in the early 1900's. What is interesting about them is that the engines were transverse, very similar to the modern day front wheel drive cars! Gotta give the cramped feeling a little break on the convertible! Would seem much more roomy with the top and windows down! The silver piece right under the carburetor is your supercharger. It sucks the air/fuel mixture down into the intake compressing it (of course). The cylindrical unit on top of the transmission is your vacuum shift mechanism. There is a little rod at the front that selects the gears. Funny you mentioned the 1937 Ohio River flood. My dear departed Daddy, was living in West Virginia in those days not fa( from the river. He told me of houses floating down stream! Buildings in Huntington were flooded two floors up! A REAL disaster! As was the Hindenburg tragedy. A final Cord fact, and related to the skimpy trunk space in them. Tom Mix was killed in 1940 when he rolled his Cord convertible. He always carried a large Aluminum suitcase with his valuables on, the rear package tray of his Cord. When he crashed the suitcase flew forward striking him on the back of his neck and head and it killed him. That car was restored not too long ago. You should be able to find some pics on the net. A BEAUTIFUL car. Too bad it has such a tragic history!
The art deco is my absolute favorite! I've always admired the Cord and have been to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn IN. That's a great place to visit. BTW: Puzzled as to why there are two oil pressure gauges. Also note that inside the fuel gauge is a small oil level gauge which is very cool!
Awesome What did you think about the auburn cord and Duesenberg museum what was your favorite car there? That second oil gauge really puzzles me I have no idea what it’s for
As a teenager, one of my most ambitious car model projects was an 812 convertable phaeton, this model- yellow, with a red interior. Super complicated - displayed it proudly for years. First FWD - don't forget about the Ruxton - how could you, no other car had that paint job! Another first - hidden gas filler. WYR - Cord both times - I can't pull off a Delehaye and since they only made FIVE of them, it's more academic than usual!
1:50 When I was a kid we had an elderly neighbor who had a Packard of approximately that vintage and an Apperson Jackrabbit in a detached garage behind his house. The Packard was rough, but the Jackrabbit was pretty much derelict, not even enough to part it out. The houses are very close together and I don't know how they got those cars out when the old man died.
That is a car that I really want to feature this year. I really want to feature a Ruxton as well. Last year I went after a bunch of cars that were raring unusual, but I found a lot of them at the Greenfield Village and I think that's what's gonna happen this year I think we're gonna have a month of just different cars that you never really heard of... and honestly I can't wait
Oh wow.. I like the 4 door version it had WAY more space both head and overall room like the four door was huge if I remember, correctly. But yeah this is a car I would own. The drive train is the only thing that would worry me. I talked to the owner of the burgundy one that I shot earlier this year and he said that you can get every single engine part for that car. Transmission parts they’re out there.. but the people who worked on these and know them are hard to find. And the shop books tell a lot but they don’t tell you everything. Like some tricks that only someone who worked with the same thing for years would know, long after the book was published.
@@What.its.like. Yes I remembering my father said the reason he did not buy it was because you would need to buy a metal turning lathe with the car and that was in the mid 40's.
When Cord bought Auburn, there were a bunch of unsold and unsalable cars in inventory. E.L had those cars repainted in bright colors, installed bigger wheels and tires, and (here's the genius bit) raised the prices. They moved them out quickly and customers were clamoring for more.
I really enjoyed this one!👍 More than once, my mother told me of the 812 Salon she and her first husband owned. She never quite forgave him for losing patience with the electric pre-select shifter and selling it. In the 1940’s it was just another low volume oddball that was a nuisance to maintain. If only he’d seen the future! I’d love a Cord 812. There was at least one fiberglass Cord replica. If memory serves, it (unfortunately) had fixed headlights, and it used Granada running gear.
Great story thank you so much for sharing those memories with us =) I know there’s at least one company making cord fiberglass bodies there was one at Classic Automall and I did review it but the card corrupted and I lost that footage, and they sold the car so I found two for sale and they agreed. Those are built solid
The car you're thinking of was the Cord 8/10, an eight-tenths scale replica, built in 1965. It was the brainchild of Glenn Pray, out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gordon Buehrig (who designed the original) was involved, if I recall correctly. The car wasn't fiberglass...it was made with a thermoplastic called Royalite, from US Rubber. They used Chevrolet Corvair powertrains, forward-mounted, and turned around to drive the front wheels. The Cord Automobile Company made about a hundred cars, but couldn't really make a go of it. But it wasn't a schlock operation...Pray had serious deals with US Rubber, Chevrolet, and other large suppliers.
Someone did, in fact, make a fiberglass Cord replica somewhere around 1970. It did have fixed headlights and had a very kit-car look to it. I actually have a picture of one that I took when I was in high school. The Glen Pray cars were a much more faithful rendition of the original.
I went to a wedding in Auburn, IN back In back in the '70s and as luck would have it, it coincided with a meeting of the ACD club. I got to sit in a Custom Beverly sedan (the one with the humpback rear end) and was especially blown away by the dashboard.
Cowboy actor Tom Mix died in a very high speed wreck in a yellow Cord 812 Phaeton. He bypassed barricades (or so the story goes) at speed estimated to be near the car's maximum, lost control at a dip in the road, and when the car overturned his aluminum suitcase (rumored to be full of cash and jewelry) which had been in the back seat hit him in the head, fracturing his skull and breaking his neck. Just remembered this story, long time gone. My Pop told about driving and riding across the desert from Nevada to California in a Cord Phaeton, during his Air Corps service in WWII. He would have been between nineteen and twenty-three at the time.
The US made many beautiful cars but this Cord has to be one of the finest. In saying that though I love the Auburn Speedster and my favourite car company delahaye so I got to pick that for my second selection. Thanks Jay awesome production as usual
I think I would choose the '37 Cord for both scenarios. The others were also keepers but the Cord is such a classic. Thank you for demonstrating the headlights. Very interesting for those pre-power days.
I once had a model of a 1937 Cord made by Monogram in I/ 24 scale. AMT also produced a Cord 812 in a slightly larger scale. My cars of choice would be the Auburn and the 1937 Cord.
This car is a "Convertible Phaeton Sedan", according to their literature. The Phaeton had a back seat. They also offered a "Convertible Coupe" that didn't have the rear seat, and a Sedan that was a conventional four-door, with a steel top.
You bet I totally forgot to show it last time and it’s cool 😎 Even if it takes like 20 cranks to get it opened.. not sure if 20 is the right number but it’s a lot.. As i’m doing it I didn’t know if it was going to stop or if it just kept cranking but the light stopped that’s why I kept peering over cause I wasn’t sure if it was going to stop. Lol
I would take the Auburn 35 Speedster, and the 37 Cord 812. Did You Know? The Cord and the 1940 Packard Darrien were built in the same plant in Connersville Indiana? Yes the Packard Darrien's bodies were made in the Auburn plant after Auburn closed. Did You Know? Cord also owned Stenson Aircraft which is where the design for the hidden headlights came from. Stenson had hidden landing lights and they were the inspiration for the Cord 810/912 lights. Did You Know? The Bendix electro-shift gear box was also used in the Tucker Torpedo? (They took them out of Cords that the owners had grown tired of.) Did You Know? Gorden Buehrig, who designed the 810 for Cord drew his inspiration from the Stutz Blackhawk Land Speed Record car of 1928. In a 1980's interview he recalled how he was trying to give the Cord the same styling from that special record car built by Stutz for Frank Lockhart. He was trying to copy the coffin nose and to blend the streamlined spat covered wheels into the Cord's body. Those pipes on the 812 were exhaust pipes. The Lycoming V8 had the exhaust ports on the valley sides of the heads and when they installed the supercharger they had to find a different routing for the pipes. I doubt that rear view mirror is original. My Grandfather was one of the senior men in the interior trim shop at Auburn in Connersville and worked on many of the Cords. He lost his job when they closed but had a 1936 Auburn sedan he drove for many years afterwards.
One the most stunning and creative examples of automotive art, of the 1930s… for that matter any decade. Designed by a failing company on a shoestring budget, the Cord nevertheless turned out to be a keeper. Unfortunately, the car was too expensive, radical, and too small for the ones who could afford it. Ostentatious cars, even smaller, more practical sized ones were hated by the unemployed and by those living on a shoestring - being rich was most unpopular! So, few Cords were made, a last gasp of a great company, a casualty of the Depression.
This was an expensive car back in the day but it didn’t have all that much chrome on it it was kind of sort of the devoid of chrome.. Much like a 60s continental
I think the styling of this automobile is bold and sexy,! The dash and gauges are beautiful, but I really love the look, especially the front end styling, of the Auburn, so I'd rather have that, and in the second, I'd pick the Packard. 😎 Video
Yeah I would pick the Packard over just about anything but after being in the Darren versus the cord the cord fits me better.. I would totally buy a cord 810/812 but in four door
Another great episode 👏👏👏 price a cord 2 nd series built in Tulsa Oklahoma ??? I never have but a New Cord would be an Option????? Take Care Happy Motoring 🤠✌️👋👋
The new ones would be pricey I know they’re building them.. I really like the four-door as there’s a lot more room in the four-door version.. I can’t wait to find a cord L29
@@What.its.like. 😂 Look 🤷 1965 Cord Sportsman 2 door convertible kit car scaled down .... Unique is what we seek !!!!!!!! 😱😂✌️ Hagerty appraisal 15,000 good condition ... Always another path 🤔👌✌️
There’s a company making fiberglass ones I saw one at Classic auto mall but it was fiberglass I did shoot an episode with it but it was on the card that got corrupted.. I actually went and found another cord to shoot because I thought that that would be an episode that a lot of people would like to see and I found that one for sale I can’t believe it’s still for sale.. it had some things small issues like the dashboard wasn’t right but he’s not asking crazy money for it and honestly if I had the money I would probably buy it..
4:20- Those are not "intake pipes". Those are exhaust pipes. The flathead Lycoming intake + exhaust valve ports are both located on the top side of the engine, above the cylinder bores, if you're looking at it with the heads off. If you're not familiar with this flathead design, one might assume that the top side of the "V" is intake, and the bottom side is exhaust, as many modern Chevys, Fords, Dodges V8s are built today. But with the Lycoming flathead, both the intake AND the exhaust manifolds are located on the top side of the block. This probably throws them casual observer off. The intake manifold and the exhaust manifold are both mounted to the top of the block, with the "in + out" ports alternating fairly close together. In the normally aspirated cars, the exhaust manifold curves forward, then downward, then turns out towards the rear. In the supercharged cars, the exhaust manifold bolts to that exact same place on the block, but instead is routed out the sides of the cowl. Look at a picture of the flathead Lycoming block (sans heads), to get a better picture. Once they go out through the cowl, all four exhaust pipes enter the front fenders, and they then bend down towards the frame. At this point, two pipes on each side of the car "Y" together into one, and the same thing is done at the other fender. This now brings the four cowl exhausts down to 2 pipes, one on each side of the engine bay, down at the frame level. These two pipes then finally "Y" into one final exhaust pipe, at about the area underneath the front passenger seat. Then just behind the rear axle, this one final exhaust pipe crosses over to the driver's side, where it exits at the rear of the car. Sorry for the long rant, but it just rubs my fur the wrong way to hear that those are intakes! 🤷♂️ Did I mention that the Cord was my father's dream car? He never achieved it. Myself, I'd love to have a Sportsman or a Phaeton! I love the video, including the old time Cord advertising! Thanks for making it, cuz it really "makes my day"! 👍
The 1937 Cord 812 supercharged V8 put out between 170 and 195 hp from 4.7 liters. For comparison, the 1935 Duesenberg supercharged straight 8, DOHC produced 320 hp from its 6.8 liter engine.
The Duesenberg straight eight was a totally different level.. one day hoping to get the chance to cover a duesenberg.. if I remember correct that was the most powerful engine made in America until the Chrysler 300 came out.. and then mercury marauder
@@What.its.like. The '35 Duesenberg Model SJ, at 320 hp, was the most powerful production automobile engine in the WORLD! It made the gorgeous Mercedes 500K Roadster engine look like it was built in some kids's back yard! The 2 special Model SSJs were also the fastest production cars in the world, and held that esteem for many years. One was Gary Cooper's and the other was loaned to Clark Gable. They were reportedly rated at 400 hp! The 1958 Chrysler 300 D was rated at 380hp and the 1958 Mercury Marauder was rated at 400 hp, the first mass produced American car with 400 horsepower!
Walter Christie built front-wheel-drive racers in 1904. I think that Harry Miller came later. Alex Tremulis, who designed the Cord, later designed the Tucker. Reconditioned Bendix transmissions were used in production Tuckers. First "would you rather" - no contest, the '37 Cord. Second one - I would have picked the Cord but then you showed a Packard. I would pick a classic Packard any day.
I believe you have mid spoke on side pipes on 812. Much like several flat heads like Cadillac the exhaust ports in block was on the top of block where overhead heads have exhaust in heads on sides
I’ve heard it both ways I always thought it was the exhaust but somebody corrected me and said it wouldn’t make sense for it to be the exhaust.. maybe when I go back I will look at the intake better.. why would it have both the side pipes and the exhaust pipe and cord is the only one that did it on both sides.. which I never knew I saw Duesenberg earlier this year and was mesmerized that the pipes are only on one side
Hi Justin, seems that the Cord was and/or is much cheaper than a Packard, Cadillac or Lincoln, when bought new or by todays standards. If I am incorrect, I will eat my words. Please reply. Dave...
I don't know which I'd rather. I had a card similar to baseball trading cards of the 37 Cord when I was a kid. My dad hyped it up as a great car. It was definitely a rich man's car. Then, there was the Auburn featured in the Remington Steele TV show. It was an impressive car. As many times as I drove by Auburn, Indiana, where the Auburn, Cord, Duesenburg Museum is, I don't know why I never visited the museum. I guess, which ever became available is what I rather have. Or if I could drive all three maybe then I could deside.
Awesome story I really want to go to that museum I think it would be epic if they let me shoot some cars but I don’t know I might try to go out there this winter I wanted to go for the Auburn cord and Duesenberg shindig they have an August but I’m not gonna make it out there for that
It's a nice museum. Somehow I remember being especially impressed with the "design and/or engineering room". Looking at the drafting tables, it gave me a feeling as if the guys had just stepped out for lunch and would be back soon!
The parts that you are calling duel cowls , are actually cowl vents they are installed in the cars cowl , the cowl is the section of the automobile that the firewall is attached to, just thought you might like to know
WYR1: Auburn Speedster, Outside the box, I'd go for a Packard Eight convertible, a '40 Darrin Victoria if such were available. WYR2: Darrin, definitely, and I responded with the Darrin in WYR1 before I knew it would be an option in WYR2.
It’s been almost 25 years since I have seen one of the limousines they offered but it was really cool to see. It was in a restoration shop in Northern Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati. I’m thinking that the owner of the shop told me that it was one of six but I don’t remember for certain. Do you have any information on them? Thanks.
@@What.its.like. I’m fairly certain that the owner was from Texas and he owned several Cords. If you are interested I can probably come up with the name of the shop and the owner of the shop’s name. His wife and my sister in law were friends and she might still have some information about them.
I used to be able to sound just like Peter Griffin a lot of my friends always thought that I should’ve went into voiceover stuff it’s crazy how everything comes full circle. I can do a lot of impressions, great choices I should’ve sang 16 candles but I would pick the two-door version I would want the four-door version and there’s a whole lot more room in the four-door version.. they made a coupe as well. I really want to review a delahaye.. Maybe there might be one at Hershey who knows
@@What.its.like. 🤔 A Ford Taurus SHO 5 Speed in a Cord would be a unique combination???? A Supper Charged V-6 with disc brakes and rack and pinion could be fun and dependable 😉 ...... A 60s Pontiac 421 dual carbs with a torque tube and rear transmission and independent suspension would be more balanced and 375 HP would be fun 😱😉 enjoy your evening ✌️👋👋
@@What.its.like. 1962 Pontiac tempest Mickey Thompson AFX was 421 solid axle .. Pontiac had a factory Conversion for your choice ??? Rear independent suspension would go next year on Corvette?? But proven in Pontiac first ?? 2 different in line 4 slant cylinder a 389 V-8 cut in half 😲 used a V-8 Cylinder head and you could get a 4 barrel from factory 🤯1 version had almost 200 HP?? A 6cyl and a V-8 389 with the option for a 421. 3 or four variations of the 421 from 315 HP to 380 ?? If I remember right pretty close 👌.. U joints were the weakest part you had to upgrade yours after you snapped them 🤷😉 torque tube and rear transmission were automatics ??? 4spd manual transmissions with straight axle were options??? John Delorean had his skunk work's program before GTO dealer option 👍 Chevy had COPO program and a few dealerships like Yenko or Nickey that built the car of your dreams ... Enjoy and Happy Motoring ✌️
Performance upgrade chip= appliance I have a 52 Chevy 1 ton truck it’s never got a software update.. over WiFi hell it doesn’t have power anything I think when we make shirts one shirt is going to say Power brakes Power steering Anti lock brakes Traction control Lane Monitoring And just keep going on and on and on With all of that technology are you still driving the car?
My Grandfather used to tell me of a Cord on his street as a kid and said people were actually scared of the car because of its pop up headlights.. I think the front drive Ruxton was before the Cord L29
(1)-1929 Cord L29, (2)-1935 Auburn Speedster, (3)-1937 Cord 812...all very close, wouldn't turn any of them down!...just partial to the earlier late '20's-early-mid 30's designs...
..actually, the Cord 810 and 812 look at lot what one might imagine a 1936-37 Tucker would have looked like...or maybe the Tucker 48 looked a lot like what a 1948 Cord might have looked like...@@What.its.like.
When I was a little kid I remember my dad thinking of trading our Chevrolet for an 812 Cord to be our family car/daily driver. Mom talked him out of it. This would have been about 1956.
Couldn’t get a better song I don’t think specially the lyrics say don’t fall in love she’s a beauty one in 1 million girls, why would a lie.. haha but i’ve heard these engines can be very temperamental and transmissions can’t be finicky.. this is a car that I really want to drive one day I’m really eager to know what it was like to drive one of the first front wheel drive cars Bucket list thing finding a Miller race car that was front wheel drive I found all the old advertisements if I lived back then I would’ve wanted Miller to build me a race car
The 810 we're 1936 models. 812 1937. You could have your non supercharger car upgraded to a supercharger charged model. Have been to the show in Auburn many times. Have even been involved in judging the show cars. By the way have a 1937 812 phaeton in the barn. It is a non supercharger car.
@@What.its.like. The GPA , seems the Russians found more use for them than the U.S. Army and made a few improvements and built them for a few years I know the were a GAZ but not the model
There are antique military vehicle collectors groups in a great number of states that do display and rallies thru the year , if you Google you may find a group near you
Nice video, just one correction. All 810 Cords were 1936 models, All 812 Cords were 1937 models. Not all 812 Cords were supercharged. Supercharging was an option on 812s, most 812 were not supercharged and they would not have outside pipes.
For all the advanced engineering I find it odd that Cord chose to install intakes that draw unfiltered air from inside the wheel wells. I've got to think that was terrible for the life of the engine.
I thought it was exhaust but after seeing the exhaust pipe in the rear I would have to be intake.. plus if ti was exhaust i’d be worried about the tires because sometimes flames shoot out and get the gas that’s not totally vaporized.. and rubber is flammable
I'm afraid Jay got this wrong - those pretty chrome pipes connect to the exhaust manifolding that is located inside the vee, just beneath the intake manifold and supercharger. I note the air cleaner is missing.
Yes That place is awesome it’s not about the quantity of cars it’s about the quality there’s stuff there that you will never see anywhere else or very rarely see and they got to Cadillac V 16 under one roof
Honestly I just asked.. you have to ask the director. They are great down there they want to see people get into the Classic Car hobby they have the same vision as I do. The directors name is Gary and he is more than happy to share the collection he wants people to get into the Classic Car hobby. I look forward to seeing your video in the future because I know if you reach out to him he’s more than happy to share it with you that’s the kind of guy he is.
Sweet we have a bunch of Packards coming there’s four in the pipeline 1924 or 1926 Packard six 1937 packard flower car 1941 packard 120 1937 packard invalid car (that car has a built-in wheelchair) Either today or tomorrow it’s going to be 1940 Studebaker commander it’s probably gonna be tomorrow
There you go again redefining words. That car is Not a dual cowl. Nor could it ever be described as one since its a 2 door. That is a split windshield. A dual cowl has a separate cowl and windshield for the back seat in a Phaeton body style.
That was the impression of Peter Griffin singing to his wife Lois.. it was supposed to sound bad because it originally sounded bad lol Great choices =)
The Tubes - She's a Beauty
Yeah buddy congratulations you got it =)
Be sure to tune in tomorrow it will either be tomorrow or Tuesday for a 1940 Studebaker commander.. =) that’s what’s next on what it’s like
Good job !
Well done 👏👏👏😊✌️
Congrats!
The Tubes were such a great band
My friend, many thanks for the shout out! It was a blast to just sit in my studio and just... talk cars! We really should consider making it a habit.
Most definitely we should do that more often I can interview you next time lol =)
Or maybe we could just sit around and talk cars like what are our favorite cars are or innovation that took place years ago that they’re trying to pass off as new now
@@What.its.like. I'm game, Bro.
Easily one of the most beautiful cars of all time. Saw one at a show today and just stared at it for a long time and kept seeing new lines I didn’t notice before
I love the design of this car.. The four-door has way more space in it, both head room and actual space. There is more space in this than a packard darrin.. and the gauges are nicer and interior was better. And way more space the only downer is visibility isn’t great and can’t see anything out the rear so side mirrors are a must
Cord, Cord. This is one of my favorite cars; I have a diecast model of this same convertible on my desk (except in maroon). I was at a car show last Fall and came upon a guy who was sitting at the side of the road in his Auburn Boattail Speedster. He had run out of gas! Since he was on a curve, I got behind him and used my flashers to warn other cars until someone came from the show with gas. On the 810/812, the wheels were originally solid, but the brakes tended to overheat, so Cord put a perimeter of holes to air-cool the brakes. Oldsmobile did a tribute to these wheels on the 1966 Toronado, which was the next production American front wheel drive car introduced 30 years after the 810; the Toronado grille and pop-up headlights also harkened back to the Cord. She's a Beauty is one of my favorite tunes from the 1980s; the Tubes with a medley of their hit! Great video!
One of the most stunning vehicles ever assembled. And so many advanced features, that would later become industry standards. WYR: Oh boy……Auburn/812 tie and the Packard (because it’s always the Packard). Song - She’s a Beauty by The Tubes. Thanks as always, great coverage ~ Chuck P.S. Thanks for the tip on Vintage Cars, greatly enjoy it as well.
Great choices you got the song too I picked that song because this is a gorgeous car and they always talk about engine problems I don’t think that there could been a better song than that one
If you’re tall the packer Darren doesn’t fit tall people but the cord well the only downer with the cord is visibility..
@@What.its.like. One of the few benefits of being my height - I’m never “too tall” for a car, at least not one I’ve found yet. ~ Chuck
1) 812, duh! LOL (in that dark blue, plz!) 2) 812! Well, thank you, Jay, for making me leave a huge puddle of drool on my keyboard! There are some iconic cars in our history. The '56 Continental Mark ll. '57 Chevy. '59 Caddy. '64 1/2 Mustang. '73 Riviera boat-tail. '77 Mark V (oh, yes I went there!)... But, above all else, these Cord's are by far the most beautiful rolling pieces of artwork to ever grace our roads. Absolutely gorgeous!!! Funny how, 33 years later, AMC transplanted the back seat into it's Gremlins though... LOL. Thanx, Jay! You frikkin' rock!
All the cars that you mentioned are great I’m a huge Lincoln fan especially late 70s I’ve always like those..
Glad you dig this episode =)
"What a gorgeous place to be" Ha! love that comment! Cool radio dial! WYR 1. 1929 Cord L29. Classically beautiful. 2. Gotta go with the DelaHaye! Exquisite execution of all those horizontal lines with those pontoon fenders. Stunning!
Great choices
Love the pontoon fenders on this car as well =)
Absolutely love Cords. One of the greatest cars ever made. ❤❤
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Jay, this was a really great episode. I think you did a really good job setting the tone of the era at the beginning, and providing background on the company. And what a car!
Thank you glad you dig this episode =)
Definitely I love history I don’t know if you can tell..
Enough people that could afford these during the great depression just goes to show you. Just like today with $100,000 toys, RV's, Pickup Trucks, and the economy is supposed to be bad? This is what happens when you live on credit. My grandparents were born in the 20's and told me how it was in those days before the crash, and then after. Both of them were determined never to buy stuff on credit if at all possible. If they didn't have the cash to buy something, they just did without it.
Great video. Love this car. Reminds me of Cruella de Ville’s Duezenberg. You know the Auburn Speedster was used in an opening scene for Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind”. It had Lauren Becaul as a love interest for Rock Hudson, 1953 I think. The car was great, bright yellow with the Cord snout and side pipes. They look so aggressive. The Soviet rocket propulsion exhausts used a similar system to increase the thrust.
Glad you dig this episode =)
I've loved '36 & '37 Cords since I was a little kid in the 1960's. My Dad bought me a model (Monogram) of the '37 Cord when I was about 8 years old and he and I spent a couple weeks putting it together. We actually saw one on the road in Kansas in about 1968 during a vacation at a Motel. My Dad was a no nonsense guy and always bought "practical" cars like Plymouths and Ramblers. He clearly did appreciate Automotive art when he saw it though. He described a Cord driving down a road in Arkansas when he was about 18 in Fayetteville Arkansas and said he felt like he was seeing something from outer space!
Thank you so much for sharing that story what great memories =)
Beautiful car. Very classy.
I think you are correct about being one of the very first with flush rear break lights.
Hell of a snout, but what is with the trunk? Would love to drive this beauty.
Hi Jay!: What can I say it's an 812 Cord! They are SO nice looking! Actually the first front wheel drive racing cars were made by J Walter Christie in the early 1900's. What is interesting about them is that the engines were transverse, very similar to the modern day front wheel drive cars! Gotta give the cramped feeling a little break on the convertible! Would seem much more roomy with the top and windows down! The silver piece right under the carburetor is your supercharger. It sucks the air/fuel mixture down into the intake compressing it (of course). The cylindrical unit on top of the transmission is your vacuum shift mechanism. There is a little rod at the front that selects the gears. Funny you mentioned the 1937 Ohio River flood. My dear departed Daddy, was living in West Virginia in those days not fa( from the river. He told me of houses floating down stream! Buildings in Huntington were flooded two floors up! A REAL disaster! As was the Hindenburg tragedy. A final Cord fact, and related to the skimpy trunk space in them. Tom Mix was killed in 1940 when he rolled his Cord convertible. He always carried a large Aluminum suitcase with his valuables on, the rear package tray of his Cord. When he crashed the suitcase flew forward striking him on the back of his neck and head and it killed him. That car was restored not too long ago. You should be able to find some pics on the net. A BEAUTIFUL car. Too bad it has such a tragic history!
Thank you so much for sharing all that information and insight I love this car =)
That is a gorgeous car, love the dash and coffin nose. Scenario 1: Auburn Speedster. Scenario 2: Delahaye. As always, nice job.
Great choices I want to cover a delahaye hopefully this year glad you dig this episode
I totally agree with you Viking, I would have said the Cord but the Auburn Speedster is just so nice and how can you not choose a delahaye?
I have a 36 Westchester in Cadet Gray Luminescence. I also have a Grahm Hollywood missing engine , trany and grill.
Awesome what do you think of it?
The art deco is my absolute favorite! I've always admired the Cord and have been to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn IN. That's a great place to visit. BTW: Puzzled as to why there are two oil pressure gauges. Also note that inside the fuel gauge is a small oil level gauge which is very cool!
Awesome
What did you think about the auburn cord and Duesenberg museum what was your favorite car there?
That second oil gauge really puzzles me I have no idea what it’s for
Seeing this car, I can't help imagining Myrna Loy and William Powell ... maybe even Clark Gable ... such beautiful design.
As a teenager, one of my most ambitious car model projects was an 812 convertable phaeton, this model- yellow, with a red interior. Super complicated - displayed it proudly for years. First FWD - don't forget about the Ruxton - how could you, no other car had that paint job! Another first - hidden gas filler. WYR - Cord both times - I can't pull off a Delehaye and since they only made FIVE of them, it's more academic than usual!
I want to cover a Ruxton so bad but that was 1930 cord L29 came in 1929..
I’m going to a pre war show in September I’ll look for a Ruxton
1:50 When I was a kid we had an elderly neighbor who had a Packard of approximately that vintage and an Apperson Jackrabbit in a detached garage behind his house. The Packard was rough, but the Jackrabbit was pretty much derelict, not even enough to part it out. The houses are very close together and I don't know how they got those cars out when the old man died.
That is a car that I really want to feature this year. I really want to feature a Ruxton as well. Last year I went after a bunch of cars that were raring unusual, but I found a lot of them at the Greenfield Village and I think that's what's gonna happen this year I think we're gonna have a month of just different cars that you never really heard of... and honestly I can't wait
One of my all time favorites, my father almost bought one after WWII.
Oh wow.. I like the 4 door version it had WAY more space both head and overall room like the four door was huge if I remember, correctly. But yeah this is a car I would own. The drive train is the only thing that would worry me. I talked to the owner of the burgundy one that I shot earlier this year and he said that you can get every single engine part for that car. Transmission parts they’re out there.. but the people who worked on these and know them are hard to find. And the shop books tell a lot but they don’t tell you everything. Like some tricks that only someone who worked with the same thing for years would know, long after the book was published.
@@What.its.like. Yes I remembering my father said the reason he did not buy it was because you would need to buy a metal turning lathe with the car and that was in the mid 40's.
I just subscribed to this awesome channel and I absolutely love it
Hey welcome to the community =) the comments offer ton of information as well
When Cord bought Auburn, there were a bunch of unsold and unsalable cars in inventory.
E.L had those cars repainted in bright colors, installed bigger wheels and tires, and (here's the genius bit) raised the prices. They moved them out quickly and customers were clamoring for more.
I really enjoyed this one!👍 More than once, my mother told me of the 812 Salon she and her first husband owned. She never quite forgave him for losing patience with the electric pre-select shifter and selling it. In the 1940’s it was just another low volume oddball that was a nuisance to maintain. If only he’d seen the future! I’d love a Cord 812. There was at least one fiberglass Cord replica. If memory serves, it (unfortunately) had fixed headlights, and it used Granada running gear.
Great story thank you so much for sharing those memories with us =)
I know there’s at least one company making cord fiberglass bodies there was one at Classic Automall and I did review it but the card corrupted and I lost that footage, and they sold the car so I found two for sale and they agreed. Those are built solid
The car you're thinking of was the Cord 8/10, an eight-tenths scale replica, built in 1965. It was the brainchild of Glenn Pray, out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gordon Buehrig (who designed the original) was involved, if I recall correctly. The car wasn't fiberglass...it was made with a thermoplastic called Royalite, from US Rubber. They used Chevrolet Corvair powertrains, forward-mounted, and turned around to drive the front wheels. The Cord Automobile Company made about a hundred cars, but couldn't really make a go of it. But it wasn't a schlock operation...Pray had serious deals with US Rubber, Chevrolet, and other large suppliers.
Fascinating! Thanks.@@jamesw1659
Someone did, in fact, make a fiberglass Cord replica somewhere around 1970. It did have fixed headlights and had a very kit-car look to it. I actually have a picture of one that I took when I was in high school. The Glen Pray cars were a much more faithful rendition of the original.
I think that’s the one I remember (class of ‘72).😉@@joemarsh4748
I went to a wedding in Auburn, IN back In back in the '70s and as luck would have it, it coincided with a meeting of the ACD club. I got to sit in a Custom Beverly sedan (the one with the humpback rear end) and was especially blown away by the dashboard.
That’s awesome I love these cars dash board I totally agree is epic
I wonder what the other oil gauge is for inside the other glove box.
Cowboy actor Tom Mix died in a very high speed wreck in a yellow Cord 812 Phaeton.
He bypassed barricades (or so the story goes) at speed estimated to be near the car's maximum, lost control at a dip in the road, and when the car overturned his aluminum suitcase (rumored to be full of cash and jewelry) which had been in the back seat hit him in the head, fracturing his skull and breaking his neck.
Just remembered this story, long time gone. My Pop told about driving and riding across the desert from Nevada to California in a Cord Phaeton, during his Air Corps service in WWII. He would have been between nineteen and twenty-three at the time.
The US made many beautiful cars but this Cord has to be one of the finest.
In saying that though I love the Auburn Speedster and my favourite car company delahaye so I got to pick that for my second selection. Thanks Jay awesome production as usual
Glad you dig this episode I want to cover a delahaye hopefully before this year is over. =)
I think I would choose the '37 Cord for both scenarios. The others were also keepers but the Cord is such a classic.
Thank you for demonstrating the headlights. Very interesting for those pre-power days.
For sure I forgot to do that last go around and it’s cool how they operate
Kewl show Jay, hard for me to decide my preference between the Packard or the Boat Tail speedster. Love ‘‘em both.
Thank you glad you dig the channel great choices =)
I once had a model of a 1937 Cord made by Monogram in I/ 24 scale. AMT also produced a Cord 812 in a slightly larger scale. My cars of choice would be the Auburn and the 1937 Cord.
14:53 Love the Zep reference ;-)
=) that was a bad one lol
This car is a "Convertible Phaeton Sedan", according to their literature. The Phaeton had a back seat. They also offered a "Convertible Coupe" that didn't have the rear seat, and a Sedan that was a conventional four-door, with a steel top.
Thank you for showing the headlights
You bet I totally forgot to show it last time and it’s cool 😎 Even if it takes like 20 cranks to get it opened.. not sure if 20 is the right number but it’s a lot.. As i’m doing it I didn’t know if it was going to stop or if it just kept cranking but the light stopped that’s why I kept peering over cause I wasn’t sure if it was going to stop. Lol
@@What.its.like. I love it!!
I would take the Auburn 35 Speedster, and the 37 Cord 812. Did You Know? The Cord and the 1940 Packard Darrien were built in the same plant in Connersville Indiana? Yes the Packard Darrien's bodies were made in the Auburn plant after Auburn closed. Did You Know? Cord also owned Stenson Aircraft which is where the design for the hidden headlights came from. Stenson had hidden landing lights and they were the inspiration for the Cord 810/912 lights. Did You Know? The Bendix electro-shift gear box was also used in the Tucker Torpedo? (They took them out of Cords that the owners had grown tired of.) Did You Know? Gorden Buehrig, who designed the 810 for Cord drew his inspiration from the Stutz Blackhawk Land Speed Record car of 1928. In a 1980's interview he recalled how he was trying to give the Cord the same styling from that special record car built by Stutz for Frank Lockhart. He was trying to copy the coffin nose and to blend the streamlined spat covered wheels into the Cord's body. Those pipes on the 812 were exhaust pipes. The Lycoming V8 had the exhaust ports on the valley sides of the heads and when they installed the supercharger they had to find a different routing for the pipes. I doubt that rear view mirror is original. My Grandfather was one of the senior men in the interior trim shop at Auburn in Connersville and worked on many of the Cords. He lost his job when they closed but had a 1936 Auburn sedan he drove for many years afterwards.
I didn’t know that thank you so much for sharing that information =) and insight
3:30 The Traction Avant was mass-produced, but it was not a US built model.
I have a friend who has one it's going to be on the channel eventually that's another car. I can't wait to do. I just gotta get down and do it.
One the most stunning and creative examples of automotive art, of the 1930s… for that matter any decade. Designed by a failing company on a shoestring budget, the Cord nevertheless turned out to be a keeper. Unfortunately, the car was too expensive, radical, and too small for the ones who could afford it. Ostentatious cars, even smaller, more practical sized ones were hated by the unemployed and by those living on a shoestring - being rich was most unpopular! So, few Cords were made, a last gasp of a great company, a casualty of the Depression.
This was an expensive car back in the day but it didn’t have all that much chrome on it it was kind of sort of the devoid of chrome.. Much like a 60s continental
This car is a work of art. Absolutely beautiful. Just one thing: please don't sing.
I think the styling of this automobile is bold and sexy,! The dash and gauges are beautiful, but I really love the look, especially the front end styling, of the Auburn, so I'd rather have that, and in the second, I'd pick the Packard. 😎 Video
Yeah I would pick the Packard over just about anything but after being in the Darren versus the cord the cord fits me better.. I would totally buy a cord 810/812 but in four door
Another great episode 👏👏👏 price a cord 2 nd series built in Tulsa Oklahoma ??? I never have but a New Cord would be an Option?????
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Happy Motoring 🤠✌️👋👋
The new ones would be pricey I know they’re building them.. I really like the four-door as there’s a lot more room in the four-door version.. I can’t wait to find a cord L29
@@What.its.like. I've never priced a body ??? Kit car ???? Usually low quality if they produce one I've never looked 🤔????
Enjoy 😊✌️
@@What.its.like. 😂 Look 🤷
1965 Cord Sportsman 2 door convertible kit car scaled down ....
Unique is what we seek !!!!!!!! 😱😂✌️
Hagerty appraisal 15,000 good condition ...
Always another path 🤔👌✌️
There’s a company making fiberglass ones I saw one at Classic auto mall but it was fiberglass I did shoot an episode with it but it was on the card that got corrupted.. I actually went and found another cord to shoot because I thought that that would be an episode that a lot of people would like to see and I found that one for sale I can’t believe it’s still for sale.. it had some things small issues like the dashboard wasn’t right but he’s not asking crazy money for it and honestly if I had the money I would probably buy it..
4:20- Those are not "intake pipes". Those are exhaust pipes. The flathead Lycoming intake + exhaust valve ports are both located on the top side of the engine, above the cylinder bores, if you're looking at it with the heads off. If you're not familiar with this flathead design, one might assume that the top side of the "V" is intake, and the bottom side is exhaust, as many modern Chevys, Fords, Dodges V8s are built today. But with the Lycoming flathead, both the intake AND the exhaust manifolds are located on the top side of the block. This probably throws them casual observer off.
The intake manifold and the exhaust manifold are both mounted to the top of the block, with the "in + out" ports alternating fairly close together.
In the normally aspirated cars, the exhaust manifold curves forward, then downward, then turns out towards the rear.
In the supercharged cars, the exhaust manifold bolts to that exact same place on the block, but instead is routed out the sides of the cowl. Look at a picture of the flathead Lycoming block (sans heads), to get a better picture.
Once they go out through the cowl, all four exhaust pipes enter the front fenders, and they then bend down towards the frame. At this point, two pipes on each side of the car "Y" together into one, and the same thing is done at the other fender. This now brings the four cowl exhausts down to 2 pipes, one on each side of the engine bay, down at the frame level. These two pipes then finally "Y" into one final exhaust pipe, at about the area underneath the front passenger seat. Then just behind the rear axle, this one final exhaust pipe crosses over to the driver's side, where it exits at the rear of the car.
Sorry for the long rant, but it just rubs my fur the wrong way to hear that those are intakes! 🤷♂️
Did I mention that the Cord was my father's dream car? He never achieved it. Myself, I'd love to have a Sportsman or a Phaeton!
I love the video, including the old time Cord advertising! Thanks for making it, cuz it really "makes my day"! 👍
Wow! You sure found a honey! Did you ever hear why the 810 Cord ended up with those artillery wheels? WYR Cord for both
No never heard the story about the wheels I love these would buy one in four door
The 1937 Cord 812 supercharged V8 put out between 170 and 195 hp from 4.7 liters. For comparison, the 1935 Duesenberg supercharged straight 8, DOHC produced 320 hp from its 6.8 liter engine.
The Duesenberg straight eight was a totally different level.. one day hoping to get the chance to cover a duesenberg.. if I remember correct that was the most powerful engine made in America until the Chrysler 300 came out.. and then mercury marauder
@@What.its.like. The '35 Duesenberg Model SJ, at 320 hp, was the most powerful production automobile engine in the WORLD! It made the gorgeous Mercedes 500K Roadster engine look like it was built in some kids's back yard! The 2 special Model SSJs were also the fastest production cars in the world, and held that esteem for many years. One was Gary Cooper's and the other was loaned to Clark Gable. They were reportedly rated at 400 hp! The 1958 Chrysler 300 D was rated at 380hp and the 1958 Mercury Marauder was rated at 400 hp, the first mass produced American car with 400 horsepower!
What Works of Art!
Totally agree =)
Walter Christie built front-wheel-drive racers in 1904. I think that Harry Miller came later.
Alex Tremulis, who designed the Cord, later designed the Tucker. Reconditioned Bendix transmissions were used in production Tuckers.
First "would you rather" - no contest, the '37 Cord. Second one - I would have picked the Cord but then you showed a Packard. I would pick a classic Packard any day.
Sweet I didn’t know about the Chrysler race cars that were front wheel drive thank you so much for sharing that I’m gonna look that up =)
@@What.its.like.Not Chrysler, Christie.
I believe you have mid spoke on side pipes on 812. Much like several flat heads like Cadillac the exhaust ports in block was on the top of block where overhead heads have exhaust in heads on sides
I’ve heard it both ways I always thought it was the exhaust but somebody corrected me and said it wouldn’t make sense for it to be the exhaust.. maybe when I go back I will look at the intake better.. why would it have both the side pipes and the exhaust pipe and cord is the only one that did it on both sides.. which I never knew I saw Duesenberg earlier this year and was mesmerized that the pipes are only on one side
@@What.its.like. E.L Cord was a showman and Gordon Buehrig
Buehrig design was beautiful symmetry
Hi Justin, seems that the Cord was and/or is much cheaper than a Packard, Cadillac or Lincoln, when bought new or by todays standards. If I am incorrect, I will eat my words. Please reply. Dave...
I don't know which I'd rather. I had a card similar to baseball trading cards of the 37 Cord when I was a kid. My dad hyped it up as a great car. It was definitely a rich man's car. Then, there was the Auburn featured in the Remington Steele TV show. It was an impressive car. As many times as I drove by Auburn, Indiana, where the Auburn, Cord, Duesenburg Museum is, I don't know why I never visited the museum. I guess, which ever became available is what I rather have. Or if I could drive all three maybe then I could deside.
Awesome story
I really want to go to that museum I think it would be epic if they let me shoot some cars but I don’t know I might try to go out there this winter I wanted to go for the Auburn cord and Duesenberg shindig they have an August but I’m not gonna make it out there for that
It's a nice museum. Somehow I remember being especially impressed with the "design and/or engineering room". Looking at the drafting tables, it gave me a feeling as if the guys had just stepped out for lunch and would be back soon!
The parts that you are calling duel cowls , are actually cowl vents they are installed in the cars cowl , the cowl is the section of the automobile that the firewall is attached to, just thought you might like to know
But there is two of them right? Dual meaning two.. lol cowls
My grandfather sold ACDs. Family legend has my mom learning to drive in an Auburn in the backyard, destroying a grape arbor in the process.
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing those memories =)
WYR1: Auburn Speedster, Outside the box, I'd go for a Packard Eight convertible, a '40 Darrin Victoria if such were available.
WYR2: Darrin, definitely, and I responded with the Darrin in WYR1 before I knew it would be an option in WYR2.
The Auburn Speedster is my pick even though I love the other two Cords. Tough choice!!!
Awesome =) it would be hard to choose
It’s been almost 25 years since I have seen one of the limousines they offered but it was really cool to see. It was in a restoration shop in Northern Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati. I’m thinking that the owner of the shop told me that it was one of six but I don’t remember for certain. Do you have any information on them? Thanks.
I’ve never seen this in a limousine in pictures or anything I never knew they made one that’s got me intrigued..
@@What.its.like. I’m fairly certain that the owner was from Texas and he owned several Cords. If you are interested I can probably come up with the name of the shop and the owner of the shop’s name. His wife and my sister in law were friends and she might still have some information about them.
Those are all beautiful cars but I like the Cord 812 the best. My second choice would be the Auburn Boattail Speedster.
When can you deliver it?
Sweet choices =)
1 & 2: All 3 of them.
That car is beautiful, but it would be worth more money painted in Mystichrome. Love your impression of Peter Griffin.
I used to be able to sound just like Peter Griffin a lot of my friends always thought that I should’ve went into voiceover stuff it’s crazy how everything comes full circle. I can do a lot of impressions, great choices
I should’ve sang 16 candles but I would pick the two-door version I would want the four-door version and there’s a whole lot more room in the four-door version.. they made a coupe as well.
I really want to review a delahaye.. Maybe there might be one at Hershey who knows
@@What.its.like. If there is a Delahaye at Hershey, that'll be an amazing video. Crazy how life can go full circle without anyone noticing.
Nice 😀
1929 cord and the Packard Darren 👍
Sweet choices =)
I would totally buy a cord especially one that didn’t have an engine.. but then again that engine is that car
@@What.its.like. 🤔 A Ford Taurus SHO 5 Speed in a Cord would be a unique combination????
A Supper Charged V-6 with disc brakes and rack and pinion could be fun and dependable 😉 ......
A 60s Pontiac 421 dual carbs with a torque tube and rear transmission and independent suspension would be more balanced and 375 HP would be fun 😱😉 enjoy your evening ✌️👋👋
375 hp and it didn’t have Hodgkiss Drive that’s crazy
@@What.its.like. 1962 Pontiac tempest Mickey Thompson AFX was 421 solid axle ..
Pontiac had a factory Conversion for your choice ??? Rear independent suspension would go next year on Corvette?? But proven in Pontiac first ??
2 different in line 4 slant cylinder a 389 V-8 cut in half 😲 used a V-8 Cylinder head and you could get a 4 barrel from factory 🤯1 version had almost 200 HP??
A 6cyl and a V-8 389 with the option for a 421. 3 or four variations of the 421 from 315 HP to 380 ?? If I remember right pretty close 👌.. U joints were the weakest part you had to upgrade yours after you snapped them 🤷😉 torque tube and rear transmission were automatics ??? 4spd manual transmissions with straight axle were options??? John Delorean had his skunk work's program before GTO dealer option 👍
Chevy had COPO program and a few dealerships like Yenko or Nickey that built the car of your dreams ...
Enjoy and Happy Motoring ✌️
Any car that can be updated with software can be remote controlled to automatically take you to a FEMA camp.
Performance upgrade chip= appliance
I have a 52 Chevy 1 ton truck it’s never got a software update.. over WiFi hell it doesn’t have power anything
I think when we make shirts one shirt is going to say
Power brakes
Power steering
Anti lock brakes
Traction control
Lane Monitoring
And just keep going on and on and on
With all of that technology are you still driving the car?
My Grandfather used to tell me of a Cord on his street as a kid and said people were actually scared of the car because of its pop up headlights.. I think the front drive Ruxton was before the Cord L29
The Ruxton came out in 1930
L29 cord 1929
@@What.its.like. ok
(1)-1929 Cord L29, (2)-1935 Auburn Speedster, (3)-1937 Cord 812...all very close, wouldn't turn any of them down!...just partial to the earlier late '20's-early-mid 30's designs...
She's a Beauty by the Tubes
Yeah buddy you got someone just beat you for title =)
awesome !
My father restored one in the 1960's. He was unable to find some necessary transmission parts and couldn't drive it.
That’s crazy.. tucker used this transmission in their cars
@@What.its.like. You just couldn't get those parts in the 1960's. You had to hire a machinist to fabricate them.
Those Cords had Tucker transmissions in them!...😀😜😮
Haha more like the tucker had cord transmissions in them haha 😂 =)
..Ha! Yes, I know..didn't know how many people knew the connection.. :)@@What.its.like.
..actually, the Cord 810 and 812 look at lot what one might imagine a 1936-37 Tucker would have looked like...or maybe the Tucker 48 looked a lot like what a 1948 Cord might have looked like...@@What.its.like.
When I was a little kid I remember my dad thinking of trading our Chevrolet for an 812 Cord to be our family car/daily driver. Mom talked him out of it. This would have been about 1956.
Still remember how excited I was during the test drive! I think the fact that it had to be jump started killed the deal.
Wow that’s nuts.. I wish I was around when this was just another weird old car
Thats The Tubes - She's a Beauty
Yeah buddy someone just beat you for title
@@What.its.like. Fitting band name for a Cord, totally tubular looking. ;p
Couldn’t get a better song I don’t think specially the lyrics say don’t fall in love she’s a beauty one in 1 million girls, why would a lie.. haha but i’ve heard these engines can be very temperamental and transmissions can’t be finicky.. this is a car that I really want to drive one day I’m really eager to know what it was like to drive one of the first front wheel drive cars
Bucket list thing finding a Miller race car that was front wheel drive I found all the old advertisements if I lived back then I would’ve wanted Miller to build me a race car
The 810 we're 1936 models. 812 1937.
You could have your non supercharger car upgraded to a supercharger charged model. Have been to the show in Auburn many times. Have even been involved in judging the show cars.
By the way have a 1937 812 phaeton in the barn. It is a non supercharger car.
Awesome thank you so much for those corrections =)
What do you like the most about your car and what do you like the least?
@@What.its.like.learning to shift the car takes time..
From the intro you include GPW or MB any plans to cover other military vehicles ?
Yeah I totally wanna start covering some military vehicles I really want to cover a ford amphibious vehicle =)
@@What.its.like. The GPA , seems the Russians found more use for them than the U.S. Army and made a few improvements and built them for a few years I know the were a GAZ but not the model
There are antique military vehicle collectors groups in a great number of states that do display and rallies thru the year , if you Google you may find a group near you
Next year I plan on going to a reenactment in Erie Pennsylvania they’re going to do D day…
@@What.its.like. I ll hope your plans work out and that you have good weather to enjoy the event and get lots of great content for your channel
Nice video, just one correction. All 810 Cords were 1936 models, All 812 Cords were 1937 models. Not all 812 Cords were supercharged. Supercharging was an option on 812s, most 812 were not supercharged and they would not have outside pipes.
Thank you so much for sharing that correction
She's a Beauty by the Tubes
Yeah buddy that’s the name of the tune and band somebody already beat you for title though
I don't like the hood and grill shape, but the rest of the car is amazing
For all the advanced engineering I find it odd that Cord chose to install intakes that draw unfiltered air from inside the wheel wells. I've got to think that was terrible for the life of the engine.
I thought it was exhaust but after seeing the exhaust pipe in the rear I would have to be intake.. plus if ti was exhaust i’d be worried about the tires because sometimes flames shoot out and get the gas that’s not totally vaporized.. and rubber is flammable
I'm afraid Jay got this wrong - those pretty chrome pipes connect to the exhaust manifolding that is located inside the vee, just beneath the intake manifold and supercharger. I note the air cleaner is missing.
Why would they do both.. i’ll ask Gary at the museum next time I’m there make a short about it
Whether intake or exhaust, they're there because they look good.
@@michaelburley9479Good to know. It didn't make sense to draw air from an area that is constantly kicking up dirt and debris.
The 35 auburn speedster
Auburn boattail speedster, Packard Darin
Awesome choices =)
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright loved and drove this car.
Awesome trivia =)
Is this canton classic car museum?
Yes
That place is awesome it’s not about the quantity of cars it’s about the quality there’s stuff there that you will never see anywhere else or very rarely see and they got to Cadillac
V 16 under one roof
@@What.its.like. I live 20 mins south of there. How did you get access to the actual cars?
Honestly I just asked.. you have to ask the director.
They are great down there they want to see people get into the Classic Car hobby they have the same vision as I do.
The directors name is Gary and he is more than happy to share the collection he wants people to get into the Classic Car hobby. I look forward to seeing your video in the future because I know if you reach out to him he’s more than happy to share it with you that’s the kind of guy he is.
The 40 Packard darrin
Sweet =)
Gotta be the Auburn.
Sweet =)
4:10 dog…
E X C E L L E N T .
WYR #1; the '37 Cord ...
Awesome =)
Together Forever by the great Rick Astley.
Haha great guess it was
She’s a beauty the tubes
foiled again
Hahaha
Packard
All day every day
Sweet we have a bunch of Packards coming there’s four in the pipeline
1924 or 1926 Packard six
1937 packard flower car
1941 packard 120
1937 packard invalid car (that car has a built-in wheelchair)
Either today or tomorrow it’s going to be 1940 Studebaker commander it’s probably gonna be tomorrow
There you go again redefining words. That car is Not a dual cowl. Nor could it ever be described as one since its a 2 door. That is a split windshield. A dual cowl has a separate cowl and windshield for the back seat in a Phaeton body style.
35 cord speedster 40 packard but I would be afraid to drive them
Sweet choices =)
@@What.its.like. With those kinds of classy cars any choice is a sweet choice! ☺
Totally agree can’t go wrong with any of them
37 Cord
Sweet =)
56 grand in today's money,,you can just about get a base f150 for that money today,,inflation is off the scales..
Prices today or off the scales absolutely incredible what they charge for a truck now
Very nice but terrible color, other than that it's a Cord what isn't to like? Oh, Ps. keep your day job, you're singing doesn't get it.
That was the impression of Peter Griffin singing to his wife Lois.. it was supposed to sound bad because it originally sounded bad lol
Great choices =)