Front:
DEIROIT
USA25
1931 Cord
25
1988
48233
Stauly M. Paine
MI
Back:
CORD
First Day of Issue: August 25, 1988
First Issue Location: Detroit, Michigan
In 1926, Erret Lobban Cord founded an automobile
empire. After agreeing to help bring the Auburn Automo-
bile Company out of debt in 1924, Cord spent the next two
years organizing what would become Auburn-Cord-
Duesenberg – dubbed a maker of cars “classic among
classics." Cord gathered the most talented, ambitious,
and imaginative engineers in the country to design his
cars. In 1931, his company sold 28,130 vehicles –
topping DeSoto, Hudson, and Packard in sales for that
year. The 810 model, otherwise known as the “Coffin-
nosed Cord," was introduced in 1935. Featuring front-
wheel drive and a preselector gearbox, it had a body of
advanced design with retractable headlamps and a beau-
tiful, wrap-around grille, and it was expensively furnished
and most carefully assembled. In 1937, another model —
the 812 — offered the obviously upper-class feature of a
special chauffeur division. The classic Cords were diffi-
cult to build, and thus only 3,000 of the 810 and 812
models were ever produced.
No. 88-50
©1988 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Stanley Paine