Administrators Eric Posted April 8 Author Administrators Share Posted April 8 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 4 hours ago, Eric said: But isn't it powered by a Chrysler Hemi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted April 9 Author Administrators Share Posted April 9 22 minutes ago, Borg warner said: But isn't it powered by a Chrysler Hemi? Yeah, it looks like a 1950's Hemi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 1970 Dodge Challenger Convertible R-T 440 6 Pack 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Schmidt Meister Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 I don't know if this qualifies to be in this thread but here it is. I saw this advertisement and decided to share it. But first I wanted to find a picture of an authentic 1926 Moon Town and Sport vehicle. While looking I saw this Moon radiator emblem that was used circa. 1920 - 1925. It reminded me of this: And from there I found out that the old Moon emblem we remembered from back in the day for racing equipment and replacement parts was in Santa Fe Springs, CA. It was owned by Dean Moon. And then I found this picture of the original prototype Shelby Cobra CSX2000 being worked on in the Moon shop. Ain't it wild the trip my mind takes .... ? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 1935 Lincoln LeBaron Coupe 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tous Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I have always admired the 812, but I just can't love it in black. It looks much better in lighter colors. Except orange. Anyone that would paint a Cord orange needs to be tarred, feathered, run out of town on a rail and then severely chastised and banned from polite society forever. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted April 12 Author Administrators Share Posted April 12 I am a fan of the slant-6, but I would prefer having a 318 under the hood, like this one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 1986 Nissan Stanza Wagon. Believe it was the first mini-van styled vehicle with two sliding doors. Probably the last “I bought it new” vehicle in my life. Near the top of my favorite cars list. And no, these are internet pictures rather than of mine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Another near the top of my favorites list - a 1968 Pontiac Firebird V-8 with three in the floor all synchromesh. Once again internet pictured rather than my actual vehicle. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 9 hours ago, railfancwb said: Another near the top of my favorites list - a 1968 Pontiac Firebird V-8 with three in the floor all synchromesh. Once again internet pictured rather than my actual vehicle. I like Cumaroes, but I consider anyone who tells me that they're prettier than Firebirds to have perceptual issues. OTOH, they was fast. My buddy Seals had a RS with a 327 that would blow the doors off anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 11 hours ago, Eric said: I am a fan of the slant-6, but I would prefer having a 318 under the hood, like this one. I had a Gold Duster with a slant six and a three speed on the floor. I was gold in color with the lizzard skin vinyl roof like this one pictured. tom. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 On 4/11/2024 at 9:21 PM, Eric said: I freakin' love this car. I finally got a few minutes to go check it out and the article actually had a little history about the Cord brand: 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Westchester Sedan Vehicle Story (The featured Cord vehicle sold for £60,000 (approx. $75,000) by Bonhams Cars HQ - UK in 2021.) Errett Lobban Cord (1894 – 1974) founded the Cord Corporation on December 28th 1929. It became the holding company for over 150 businesses controlled by him, including Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg vehicles, Lycoming engines, the New York Shipbuilding Co, Checker taxi cabs, Stinson aircraft and American Airways – which later became American Airlines. So successful was E.L. Cord that he bought himself 18 acres of prime Beverley Hills real estate and built a modest home of 32,000 sq ft, 16 bedrooms and 22 bathrooms which he promptly christened ‘Cordhaven’. In 1934 his phenomenal wealth and fame prompted him to move to England for 2 years in order to escape the growing threat of kidnap in the US. Cord cars were the more luxurious cousins of Auburn cars and were often referred to as ‘Baby Duesenbergs’. They were also a showcase for all things new, innovative, groundbreaking, experimental and exciting, including the front-wheel drive technology first introduced to American buyers on the Cord L-29. The 1937 sales brochure for the Cord 810 (the L-29’s immediate successor) tells us that “…of the 24 American makes of motor cars, 24 of them are all of one kind: rear drive. This car is in a class of its own: the front drive Cord.” But front-wheel drive was just the most obvious of countless Cord innovations. Most American cars of this era had running boards. Not the 810/812. With no driveshaft or transmission tunnel to worry about, the cars were so low to the ground that running boards weren’t required. There were many, many other innovations. The 810/812 had a four-speed pre-selector transmission system. The Bendix ‘Electric Hand’ consisted of an exquisitely miniaturised gear gate attached to the steering column and connected to a number of electromagnets and vacuum diaphragms. It was the first car to have a ‘horn ring’ on the steering wheel. And the first to come with a radio fitted as standard. And the first to have hand-cranked pop-up headlights recessed into the front wing pontoons (these were gently repurposed landing lights from a Stinson aircraft). And the first to have hidden door hinges. And the first to have the petrol cap concealed behind a door. And the first to have rheostat-controlled instrument lighting. And the first to have CV joints on the driveshaft. And the first to feature trailing-arm independent front suspension on a front-wheel drive car. And the first to have variable speed wipers. Streuth. To say these cars were ahead of their time really is an understatement. They introduced now commonplace engineering breakthroughs that wouldn’t be seen on some British cars for another 40 years. And you have to keep reminding yourself that the 812 first emerged in 1937, the year Amelia Earhart went missing, the Hindenburg went up in flames, J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit, and the Golden Gate Bridge opened. British drivers, happily pootling along country lanes in their Austin Sevens and Humber 16/50s, must have thought the aliens had landed when one of these gleaming beasts shot past them with a flash of chrome, a roar of V8 and all manner of gizmos and technologies that no-one had seen before. The 812 offered a series of improvements and tweaks over the 810 plus the option of a Schwitzer-Cummins supercharger. This option gave the car the designation ‘812S’ and, more importantly, 170bhp and a top speed in excess of 110mph. Those numbers made the car a true hot rod in its day and quite possibly the fastest car in America at the time. Only 688 supercharged 812 cars were sold. The 810/812 Cords are undeniably, unquestionably, unforgettably beautiful. Small wonder, then, that in 1996 American Heritage magazine proclaimed the Cord 810 sedan to be “The Single Most Beautiful American Car”. We wouldn’t argue with that. The designer, Gordon Buehrig, was an admirer of Le Corbusier and you can see the latter’s design influence in the car’s louvered ‘coffin-nosed’ front. The 812S, with its chromed exhaust pipes running down the outside of the bonnet from the manifold, is every bit as gorgeously, authentically Art Deco as the Chrysler building. The overall aesthetic makes this car one of the most instantly recognisable automotive icons of all time. We are extremely fortunate in having a particularly fine example of this very rare, very special car here with us right now. https://carsonline.bonhams.com/en/listings/cord/812-supercharged-westchester-sedan/e5bcdcdb-612c-4276-acaf-1ff189f42baa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Custom 1940 Graham Hollywood Sedan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DAKA Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 15 hours ago, pipedreams said: Beautiful, but, the wheels ?? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 I agree. Why bother with a historic preservation and then put wheel and tires that belong on a high school kid's idea of cool in the 1960s. I never really like the chromed version of the Cragar wheels even as a lad and those tires aren't hardly the narrow, multi-ply tires of yore. Nice 1961 Impala right behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 On 4/15/2024 at 3:46 PM, pipedreams said: Thought Studebaker beauty started with the 1953 coupe. Seeing these convinced me it had started earlier. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 11 minutes ago, Eric said: Nice Stutz? Now we know where Ford got the idea where to put the Pinto gas tank. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 "Always keeps her aces down. Broken hearts all over town..." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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