it sure gets people to look in your booth when you have a Cord in it (very unusual), but, an electric Cord? Ummmm, don't they know that electric conversions aren't impressive, only original or hot rodded cars are impressive

the photo ( in the upper right corner of this infographic) of the CEO/founder of Simple Green, with his 20 year younger trophy wife (former model from Genova Italy) and her 4 dogs... she founded a non profit dog rescue, in Newport Beach

Huh... I'm pretty sure this is some advertising trackless train, the Cord has a cow catcher, the train has truck tires, but doesn't look like a "sound train" modified car

 

the middle of the boiler on the train seems to say Majestic, National (I can't read the middle word) Tour

the rail car has "Majestic Radio" on the side

https://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/topic/376665-photos-des-trains-avec-des-anciennes/page/59/#comments

It looks a little similar to the MGM trackless train, but the rail car has a few small differences http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/mcgee/mcgee.htm

"As pictures of the ‘second’ locomotive appear to be identical to the original McGee-built vehicle, it is anyone’s guess if an entirely new locomotive was recreated. However no simultaneous appearances of the ‘Trackless Train” are recorded, and I believe the original locomotive built in 1924 was simply refurbished and presented as new."

I think this is the first car accessory cigar holder I've ever seen

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=466299345634936&set=pcb.466299678968236

Frank Lloyd Wright, genius celebrated architect, was bankrupt in the late 1920s, yet he still had so much ego, he had to buy a L 29 Cord, to fit in with the social elite such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the Marx brothers in the midst of the 1929 stock market crash

Above, photographed from a distance so great, I cropped off the bottom of the photo

Few people would have known he had a top tier Cord, if he hadn't crashed one into the florist competition of the local newspaper's photographer's family.

Maybe he was photographing this rural crash because of the expensive Cord, or maybe it was to get the word out that the competition was going to be unable to deliver flowers for a while, and therefore go to his family for business... or maybe it was because the architect had an achilles heel when it came to safe driving, due to an overabundance of ego that maybe caused FLW to think people would not possibly cause him inconvenience.

Where do I get the idea he was a wonk? From his response to someone who pointed out "Why dear, you went through a red light!"
"My dear," Wright responded, "For me, the lights are always green."

Which ever it was, the photographer get the word out to the small Wisconsin newspaper, which spread the word to the Chicago news, and the weekly news paper in Oregon of all places, picked it up for their once a week paper.

The stock market crash began in Sept, and hit bottom Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929.

FLW was requested by the Cord company, in December, to reply with a description of how he was satisfied with his L29.

He crashed it in both September and November of 1933.

How did he pay for the new Cord L29 Phaeton? Well, he didn't even put the title in his name, as to prevent his many creditors from getting a judge to turn it over to them for payment of debts.

While most new Cord owners simply wrote personal checks for their cars, the situation was quite different for Wright. Technically he had no personal funds, having turned over all of his financial affairs to a rescue corporation called Wright Incorporated.

When established in 1927, the idea was that Wright’s friends, family members, and clients would each contribute $7,500 to the corporation. The resulting funds would be used to settle Wright’s old debts, pay alimony to his second wife, Miriam Noel Wright, and prevent the bank from assuming control of Taliesin and his other assets.

 In return, the contributors were to be compensated from Wright’s future earnings, which he would to turn over to the Corporation, which in turn would pay him a salary.

Unfortunately, the scheme did not work, primarily because Wright had attracted very few paying clients and his expenses continued to accumulate. By the fall of 1928 the Corporation was able to reclaim Taliesin, enabling Wright and his new wife, Olgivanna, to return there, but its resources were nearly exhausted, despite the efforts of the young Madison attorney responsible for overseeing the thankless endeavor.

Had Wright’s two major late-1920s commissions gone forward, paying for the Cord probably would not have been a problem. But given the financial uncertainty that followed the stock market crash in late October 1929—just when Wright purchased the Cord-- neither his St. Marks client in New York nor his San Marcos client in Arizona could assemble enough investors to proceed. Consequently, coming up with payments on the Cord became more and more difficult. With Morgan’s name on the purchase agreement, Morgan was obligated to find the money, and, in frequent letters to Wright complained of the excessive strain the Cord was causing on his own finances. Over the years Wright had amassed a large and valuable collection of antique Japanese prints.

Using Japanese prints as collateral for loans or to raise funds was not at all unusual for Wright. In 1926 he placed over 5,000 prints in the vaults of the Bank of Wisconsin as collateral for money owed on Taliesin, and in 1928 Prof. Edward Burr Van Vleck, a UW professor of mathematics, secured a large number of them from the bank for $4,000, or about $1.00 a print.

By 1932 Wright and Morgan were still struggling to pay for the Cord, but they could now rely on a new source of funds: tuition payments from prospective Taliesin apprentices.

Evanston High School was one of numerous high schools in the Midwest where Morgan made presentations promoting Wright’s new Taliesin Fellowship program for aspiring architects. After completing one of his talks—which according to Howe began and ended with Morgan doing cartwheels onto and off the stage—Wright’s colleague would review the work of talented students, encourage those he approved of to join the Fellowship, and whenever possible collect down-payment tuition checks. However, instead of routinely sending the checks to Taliesin, Wright sometimes instructed Morgan to apply the checks toward the Cord. Neither Howe nor any of the other young apprentices were aware that some of their tuition fees were paying for Wright’s car rather than compensating Irving Frautschi’s furniture store for mattresses or paying other Madison businesses that were providing services and materials to the Fellowship.

In the mid-1950s Frank Lloyd Wright acquired a second Cord, a Model L-29 Cabriolet, the two-door, sports car version of his old four-door Phaeton. this time he was flush with cash and contracts to cover all his expenses

http://www.historicmadison.org/Publications/Journal%20of%20the%20Four%20Lake%20Region/2004HMIJournal.pdf

The rights to the Cord name and trademark came up for sale again... like they did in 2014, but they sold for only $88,000

When E.L. Cord decided to get out of the car business in August 1937 and take up real estate in California, he sold his stake of the Cord Corporation – the holding company that controlled Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg and Checker automobiles, along with American Airways, Stinson Aircraft, and several other companies – to a group of investors , who sold the Auburn and Cord assets to Dallas Winslow, a businessman who had become rich and famous by buying up the assets of other, smaller defunct automobile companies including Flint, Briscoe, Stearns-Knight, Peerless, Franklin, Wills St. Clair, Haynes, and dozens more.

Winslow apparently had little interest in the Cord and Auburn names and trademarks. Instead, he spent the next 20 years marketing, selling, and in some cases reproducing parts for those cars.

 In 1960 shop teacher Glenn Pray saw the potential in the defunct marques, and so put together the $75,000 deal and then moved 350 tons of parts and the operations of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Pray licensed the Cord name to other companies like Mattel and Hallmark, and sold off the Auburn name and trademark in 2005 for $500,000.

He died in 2011, and his family decided to sell the Cord trademarks in 2014 for $242,000 to Craig Corbell, who got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, but tossed in the towel citing the lack of guidelines from the federal government regarding low-volume replica cars.

The livestream of the August 31st 2019 Auburn Auction By Worldwide Auctioneers showed the auctioneer kick off the bidding with an opening bid of $300,000 - with no interest at that price, it came down to $200K, and then $100K. When the opening bid changed to $50K, buyers started to get in on the action. But not for much

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2014/09/19/rights-to-the-cord-name-and-trademark-come-up-for-sale/
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/05/16/with-cord-revival-project-stalled-cord-rights-to-be-auctioned-off-again/
https://oldtimerdaily.com/the-famous-cord-trademark-is-for-sale-now/
https://news.yahoo.com/cord-sells-bargain-price-auction-222411849.html
https://worldwideauctioneers.com/results/

a real no shit race between an airplane and a Cord, in 1936

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_4432_1?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=1480&per_page=20

The wild days of youth, when America had cars, but few police, and none with radios. Not much in the way of having fun, at your own risk, and actually living a life of freedom and liberty.

Sure, you can whine about safety, all damn day long if you like. But, why bother me with it?
I like high octane, stunts, cars without airbags, and that fundamental principle that some guys started a new country with, freedom from tyrants.

freedom to have a race down a country road with a fast car and a friend with a plane, who didn't have to log 1000 hours with a school, and student loan debt, to fly a damn airplane that didn't have to have an FAA inspection every 12 months, and an engine rebuild, and all the other costs that destroyed cheap airplanes for EVERYONE that wanted to buy one instead of a car and jump from municipal airport to airport and live a full life of adventure.

Anyone could make a car, or car company, and flying wasn't something just for trust fund babies in the Rockefeller or Kennedy clans. You got the nerve? Jump in, get someone to show you how to fly, and land, and bingo, you're on your own kid, don't crash it.

Back when the govt didn't tell you what you could drink, eat, smoke, or do in your free time. When you could open carry, or conceal carry. When a beer was part of lunch, and if you wanted to walk down the sidewalk with a beer, not in a brown paper bag, fine. Enjoy the can o suds! When cops walked a beat, knew the store owners, kept kids out of trouble, and showed them how to make an apple crate into a downhill racer (don't let your mom see this kid)

Back when Norman Rockwell and the other painters made cool stuff come alive, with humor. Before the beatniks, and the hippies, when people were excited to get a ride in a car, or plane, or even a movie theater experience. When we made stuff in America that other countries weren't copying poorly. Hell, when someone was inventing something every 10 minutes that would make life easier. 

“Travel in Vogue” by Gary Whinn features a Pan-Am Clipper plane and a 1936 Cord 810

http://therebelgentleman.tumblr.com/

the Led Zeppelin fan in Russia shows his adoration for the rock and roll legends by painting a Cord 810

it's not Jimmy Paige's 1936 Cord 810 that sold at auction in 2011 for 125k USD, as this is a 1937 http://bravewords.com/news/1936-cord-810-phaeton-owned-by-led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-for-sale https://www.diariomotor.com/2011/12/06/a-subasta-el-increible-cord-810-phaeton-de-jimmy-page-guitarrista-de-led-zeppelin/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156856282779306&set=a.487455259305&type=3

a jalopy Cord? Really? How bad did depreciation hit that L29 Cord that it was sent to the roller derby?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217279900098463&set=a.10153140569279306&type=3&permPage=1

actress Anne Harding really loved her 1929 Cord L29, her house in Hollywood at Pyramid Place had such a small driveway though, she had a turn table installed

Rudy Vallee bought the house from her in 1939

if you can't make out the turntable, here is a similar one

http://www.coyoteblog.com/

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5672932&postcount=7415

I recently learned the Academy of Art University in San Francisco has it's own car museum... wow! And the cars in it's collection are stunning

Murphy bodied, supercharged Lycoming 420", Duesenburg

L 29 Cord with woodlites

Pierce Arrow

1934 V16 Fleetwood bodied Cadillac coupe

1930 Waterhouse bodied Packard exported to Uruguay, probably for the president of that country

Supercharged Auburn Speedster

1938 Talbot Lago bodied by Figoni et Falaschi, competition aero coupe and the only known long wheelbase model, it was commissioned by a French banker

Kaiser Virginian

1931 Stutz Super Bearcat, Weymann bodied

Darrin Bodied Packard

This Auburn was painted this way to grab attention by design, and the colors on the body matching the tires and rims is a really cool look

Dietrich designed, Murray bodied, Lincoln powered, and bought by Roy Rogers. Not to drop names, but it's needed just to describe this car

1949 Delahaye coupe de ville by Soutchik

http://www.academyautomuseum.org/index.php/nggallery/page/1?page_id=13

winner, Most Elegant at the Palos Verdes Concours

what happened to Auburn, Cord, Peerless,Franklin and dozens of other defunct car companies? Their names and trademarks were used for licensing toys

When E.L. Cord decided to get out of the car business in August 1937 and take up real estate in California, he sold his stake of the Cord Corporation – the holding company that controlled Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg and Checker automobiles, along with American Airways, Stinson Aircraft, and several other companies – to a group of investors operating as the Aviation and Transportation Corporation. ATCO, in turn, shut down car manufacture at Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg and sold the Auburn and Cord assets, including the rights to the Auburn and Cord names, to Dallas Winslow, a businessman who had become rich and famous by buying up the assets of other, smaller defunct automobile companies including Flint, Briscoe, Stearns-Knight, Peerless, Franklin, Wills St. Clair, Haynes, and dozens more. He got all but the tooling and dies, which Norman DeVaux bought and in turn marketed to Hupp and Graham.

Winslow apparently had little interest in the Cord and Auburn names and trademarks. Instead, he spent the next 20 years marketing, selling, and in some cases reproducing parts for those cars. Pray, on the other hand, saw the potential in the defunct marques, and so approached Winslow in 1960 to inquire about what Winslow had been calling the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. On a shop teacher’s salary, he managed to put together the $75,000 deal and then move 350 tons of parts and the operations of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company to a former pickle factory in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Interestingly enough, Pray told his biographer, Josh Malks, that he later discovered that neither the Cord nor Auburn names were registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Winslow had let them expire while he owned the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. Pray ended up spending $500 each to re-register the names – Cord in 1963 and Auburn in 1966. “If I’d known that all I had to do was spend $1,000, I’d have had me the Cord and Auburn names and wouldn’t have had to drag all that stuff down here.”

While Pray was happy enough to sell parts to Auburn and Cord collectors and restorers, he really wanted to put the Cord and Auburn automobiles back into production, something he needed both names to do. In August 1964 he succeeded with the former, basing a downsized (8/10-scale, as its name would later declare), Buehrig-designed, Royalite-bodied version of the Cord 810 on a custom chassis using a Corvair drivetrain under the hood to provide front-wheel drive. Production of what would prove to be one of the world’s first continuation cars stalled after about 100 were built and after Pray left the Cord Automobile Company, but he somehow retained the Cord name through the ordeal.

Though he never again tried to resurrect the Cord name, Pray did make sure to keep the trademarks registered afterward, both to continue selling Cord-branded reproduction parts and to license the Cord name to other companies like Mattel and Hallmark. While Pray, through the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company, sold off the Auburn name and trademark in 2005 for $500,000, he held on to the Cord trademarks until his death in 2011, and now his family has decided to part with them.

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/09/19/rights-to-the-cord-name-and-trademark-come-up-for-sale/

Indiana State Police had a Cord? Huh

Found on http://happyharry101.tumblr.com/image/82900974620

a Cord 812 roadster... huh. You never can predict what you'll see at the LA Roadster Show!

rare one of 2 1936 Cord 810 has been made suede and chrome

Style, beauty, elegance, grace and design... photos from the 2013 LaJolla Concours

above: 53 Corvette

above: great auxiliary lights

not often you can find 2 Cords or two cars with flex tube exhaust pipes next to each other