The Best of America’s Best “Fred Duesenberg’s brain and E.L. Cord’s money produced what they-and many others-called with no exaggeration “the world’s finest motor car”” Richard M. Langworth in The Great American Convertible Although the name sounds German, the...
The First Front-Wheel-Drive “The 1929 Cord L-29 owner’s manual contains the declaration that, “This car is not an experiment. In drawing the burden instead of pushing it, it simply reverts to the natural method of moving a wheeled conveyance.”” -Kurt...
The American Dream To me, Errett Lobban Cord is a fascinating character in automobile history. I would describe him as the typical American Dream archetype of the Roaring Twenties. E. L. Cord started from nothing and, using his smarts and ambition, built an empire...
