Amelia Earhart's Cord Returns to Its Former Glory after Being Lost for Decades

[ShanghaiJack]

For we Amelia Earhart fans:


https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a44028908/amelia-earhart-cord/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/...ed-to-the-national-historic-vehicle-register/

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/amelia-earhart-1937-cord-812/

 

[Silver Surfer]

One of the most beautiful automobile s ever built, and in its time techniquely quite advanced.

 

[Micawber]

Impressive car.

 

[Chandler]

My original dream car.

 

[B-Man2]

I’m guessing this one’s worth a 1 million US plus or minus a few quid .

 

[Chandler]

I’m guessing this one’s worth a 1 million US plus or minus a few quid .

Drop in the bucket.

Do you suppose it runs?

 

[Silver Surfer]

Funny, now that l think of it, back in the 1980s+-, someone was making repro cords. Ouch, woof, woof. At a distance you were wtf?, but at closer inspection they looked like……..replicas, shitty replicas at that.

 

[Chandler]

Funny, now that l think of it, back in the 1980s+-, someone was making repro cords. Ouch, woof, woof. At a distance you were wtf?, but at closer inspection they looked like……..replicas, shitty replicas at that.

Weren't they smaller than the originals, too?

I remember these too, but I can't recall what frame they were on.

 

[Smithy]

They are a terrific machine but if I was after a mid to late 30s American glamorous droptop and I had the car buying budget of Ralph Lauren or Jay Leno, then the Cord would get pipped every single time by an Auburn boattail speedster.

That might just be me though.

 

[Chandler]

Auburn, Cord & Duesenberg came from the same factory in Indiana -- the choice of one or the other is true aesthetics. The Cord being a little more subtle and less flashy, of course.

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[Silver Surfer]

Hmmmmmm……… was it a boat tail, or cord that gable and Colbert tooled around in “it happened one night”? I forget. Kickass Capra work

 

[Silver Surfer]

And of course, when someone in the ‘30s right into the ‘40s said something or someone was a doozie, it was a super, as in deusenberg

 

[B-Man2]

1986 Cord 810 Replica

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[Chandler]

1986 Cord 810 Replica

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Automatic? Bah.

 

[Silver Surfer]

yup , now I remember, it was those ersatz leg pipes. yikes.

 

[CBI]

Auburn, Cord & Duesenberg came from the same factory in Indiana -- the choice of one or the other is true aesthetics. The Cord being a little more subtle and less flashy, of course.

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the Auburn, Cord, Desi museum in Auburn Indiana is terrific. AMAZING cars - well worth a visit.