1931 Cord

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DEIROIT USA25 1931 Cord 25 1988 48233 Stauly M. Paine MI

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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