(Pics) 1937 Cord 812

Love the "coffin-nose" design of this Cord!

I really like the colour on this one, Mike. Great photos as always.

Thank you, David ! I sure agree that the blue on this Cord is really beautiful and also in real life would be a visual knockout.

A wonderful model of Gordon Buehrig's masterpiece. and stunningly photographed too. I particularly like the twilight shot with airship, (DLZ-129 / Hindenburg?) drifting into view.  

Thanks, Charles ! It is a very beautiful car and 1/43 model, too. I think actually the dirigible was meant to be the Hindenburg's immediate predecessor and co-airship, the world-circling LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. My family used to have an old world globe from the early Thirties with the path of the earth-circling Graf Zeppelin marked out on it. I imagine if you could afford to cross the Atlantic or circle the globe on a zeppelin, you also could easily afford to have a stylish  V-8 Cord in your driveway ! 

Great to see the airships are back in your lineup! 😎 

Posted by: @karl

Great to see the airships are back in your lineup! 😎 

Lol, thanks, Karl ! Airships and dirigibles (but I guess especially helium ones) are a help to many images.  

A few more of that Cord body, but sedans.   Hupmobile was able to recycle the tooling to create their own car but RWD not front wheel drive.  No convertibles however.  Hupmobile is a Brooklin,  Cord is a Mikensue kit.

Tom Mix's Cord by MM43. I also have a sedan by Neo but no pic yet.

@mikedetorrice Some of the Zeppelin stories are so dramatic - and romantic, too. The Graf Zeppelin's circumnavigation of the globe being the high-point.

@mg-harv This is a beautiful model Harv: Minimarque are my favourite models.  Is there any available information on the nose badges? I recognise the winged badge as Cord, and the others may be too, but all three of them, Cord badges?

@david-green +1.

The Cord is IMHO one of the most beautiful cars ever made. As I have gotten older, I have really appreciated the design even more. I have just returned from a Mid-West Car Museum trip where I saw at least 10 examples of this beautiful work-of-art.

One of Buehrig's personal cars (along with a TASCO prototype) will be featured at the Detroit Concours event next month - I went last year and it was an outstanding event - going again this year.  

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