Few prewar cars can cruise at 80 mph. Few prewar cars that sell for less than $200,000 are regularly permitted to park on concours d'elegance lawns. Few cars from any era have styling and proportions ...

Established in 1929 and shut down in 1937, Cord produced automobiles for only six years. Despite its short-lived life, the company run by E.L. Cord introduced two major innovations: the ...

The car collecting community continues to show its passion for prewar cars. They don’t make all the headlines quite like they used to. They also don’t set as many records. But the bidders on Hemmings ...

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library The modern collector car auction as we know it arguably began in Auburn, Indiana (Kruse held its first sale there on ...

Alex Porter, a 42-year-old who works at an online collector-car auction website and lives in San Francisco, on his 1936 Cord 810 Westchester, as told to A.J. Baime. Charles Porter, my 86-year-old ...

One of the greatest carmakers ever to have its name engraved in the history of American motoring is Cord, a long-since defunct brand of Auburn Automobile Company. Almost unanimously acclaimed as the ...

Arguably the most distinctively styled automobile in the world, nothing looks quite like a 1936-37 Cord. With its bulbous front fenders, retractable headlights and unmistakably styled bonnet with ...