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I like the look of those skirted rear fenders! Very cool!

 

Most all Cord enthusiasts know what the Westchester interior looks like, but many have never ever seen the inside of a '36 Beverly, let alone one that still has its original upholstery.

Here's what the front seat of a '36 Beverly looks like:



Here's what the back seat of a '36 Beverly looks like:



Unlike the '37 Beverly, the '36 has fixed armrests instead of fold-down armrests.

And, of course, the '36 doesn't have the bustle back trunk.



This is an all original car, just the way it came from the factory in 1936.

 

Here's a '40 Graham that lives somewhere up in this corner of Indiana. Used to see it on the street occasionally, but not for a few years now.









It's being offered for sale here:

http://significantcars.com/cars/1937cordhr/

If that's a little too rich for you, here's a Cord 810 project in California listed on Craigslist:

http://slo.craigslist.org/cto/1976935634.html

 

Here's a hybrid Cord with a Lincoln Zephyr sedan rear end grafted to it. The car was apparently rear ended and the Zephyr sedan was used to create this unique custom. The car resides in the Reynolds Air Museum in Alberta.

 

I've seen both of those before. Thanks for posting them.

 

I saw that when you first posted it on the Hamb. It is Unique.

 

Saw this one not long ago..
want to piss off the elite..make a vintage hot rod out of it..

Rick

 

Is this another version of the Ray Simpson Cord????

 

Rick; Where did you see this one???? There are more Cord street rods ot there then you think. Part of it is the elite that keep parting out the sedans as they are supposedly worth more in parts. Then in the next breath, they complain about people building street rods out of them. Go figure???? if it's your car, you can do what ever you please. It is your car.

 

Terry Harrington sold the car last January - I spoke with him as he was delivering it to it's new owner.

The black Westchester with the 350/4L60T conversion was for sale last year in Beverly Hills CA - I looked at it which is where I took the photos I posted.

I must correct my earlier post about the Graham Hollywood/Hupp Skylark convertibles. The Hupp Skylark belongs to Tom Hincz in WI and there is only one known surviving Graham Hollywood which belongs to Ken Dunsire.

Here are some links to these cars - click on the next button for several photos of each and surfing around this site will also bring up a detailed and accurate history of the whole Hupmobile/Graham Hollywood/De Vaux/Cord body dies saga:


www.grahamhollywood.com/HollywoodPhotoGallery1.html

www.grahamhollywood.com/ConvertibleFullSize.html

 

Regarding "If it has a trunk it is a Cord, not a Graham or Hupp" Well that is true but some folks still need some trunk room and come up with some ideas to solve the problem. Yhis Skylark was once a decent ride having some odd modifications like the '35 Ford trunk and elimination of the split rear window. We won't mention the fins that had 53 Chev tail lights. The VW headlights were so so. Chev six with floor shift trans and a Stude. rear end took it down the street. It was a magazine car once. The car sat in Meiner's Oaks, ca. for years but disappeared.

 

Here's another wild Art Deco custom Cord being built:

www.guildclassiccars.com/1936_Cord.htm

 

I spoke last week with a guy who had chopped a Westchester 3 inches a couple of years back - car is in the Pacific N.W. and for sale as a project. I believe the metalwork was extensive and the car still sits in the bare metal....

 

Sunroof:

It isn't far from me...

Not sure what the asking price is,but I know it's in "tough shape"

Rick
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Here are some photos of a coupe in the ACD Museum - based on the convertible (the wrongly named 'Sportsman' - never was a factory designation). I believe this car was made from an original convertible in the early 1970s and was a copy of the factory built custom coupe convertible. It was driven around the U.S extensively in 1975 - that's the information I have - but I could be wrong - I was once....

 

Three pages and nobody has mentioned the Phantom Corsair yet - the ultimate Cord custom:

 

Well, we now have a controversy on the Sportsman nomenclature since I found this article in a 1936 Minneapolis Tribune. John Baeke used this article in the 2010 Auburn Reunion Book saying it is indeed correct to call the convertible coupe a Sportsman.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...p=attd&realattid=f_gbmfymoo0&zw&sig=AHIEtbQiv

 

Weasel; The Cord you pictured here is the Champion Spark Plug car. The one you were thinking of is this one;

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SunroofCord - that make's twice I have been wrong! But Josh Malks I think might disagree on the 'Sportsman' nomenclature I'll have to dig in my 'Cord Complete' bible and see what he has to say on the subject. I think the crux of the controversy is that the Cord factory never called it a 'Sportsman's' but journalistic hacks may have done so and that's what made it stick in common parlance - but results may vary....

 

Info on the Champion Spark Plug Cord that Weasel posted pictures of above.

According to the sign next to this car in the ACD MUSEUM;

There were approximately 3000 1936 and 1937 Cords produced but only three of them were hardtop coupes and only one of them was built like this vehicle. Robert Stranahan Sr., President and Founder of Champion Sparkplugs commissioned this one of a kind Cord to be built for himself. There are many unique features in this car including chromed Auburn headlights, a padded leather top, an Auburn hood ornament and LaSalle ventiports on the sides of the hood. After having been used in Ohio and abused in California, the Cord was discovered in Montreal Canada in very decrepit condition by Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg enthusiast Dr. Faye Culbreth. After a multi year restoration, this one of a kind Cord was donated to the museum.

 

I always agreed with the convertible coupe nomenclature as being correct. John Baeke is the one that decided Sportsman was indeed correct as it was used in this 1936 article. If you don't have the 2010 Reunion Book. It's worthwhile. Lot's of Great new information. I was going to look at my Cord Complete Book for the interior information. Josh was a personal friend to my late father, so I know him well.

 

Yes, I have the magazine with this car in it. My understanding is that it had a very high asking price. Wonder if they finally sold it or destroyed it????

Here is an article on the car from 2005 that was on Hot Rod Hot Line

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/fieldcars/05samhupmobile/

Maybe Sam Flowers bought it and still has it.

 

This one was built by Mike Norton of Evansville Indiana and is now in the Ron Pratt collection.

 

Naw!! That's me. I checked on it every once in a while but one day it was gone. I am sure they got a few rats with it as Ivy had almost obscured it.

 

Would be interesting to see pictures of that. There was a chopped one For Sale in the net not long ago. I will see if I can find it again.

In 1990 Terry Cook bought a postcard of an 810 Cord at the Auburn-Cord-Duesy Museum in Indiana, took it home and chopped it and dropped it with an X-acto knife and Scotch tape. Together, with influence from the work of Joseph Figoni of Paris, it inspired him to buy a '41 Hupp Skylark. That was the seed that blossomed to become DECO RIDES.

He started to build a Cord that was featured in Rodders Journal around 1999 but I think he may have sold it. I believe this project may still be on the drawing board.

http://www.decorides.com/cord.htm

 

Thanks Rik.

 

Don't get me wrong here, I'd usually take on just about any non-stock project regarding cars of this nature. Packards are an exception for the most part as I've seen maybe 2 in my 40yrs of addiction that I'd say "well, ok..." but something about hot rodding a Cord just isn't, well, I don't know. Are they so precious that it's almost a crime? No, but many of these I'm seeing fall in to the just because you can theory. Now all of that off my chest I can see doing a high zoot all Cord hotrod for Bonneville or Maxton. I actually have an idea floating around in my head for V-12 Auburn of the same nature. There may be 1 or 2 Cords I've seen in this post that make me smile, that coupe being at the top of the list. Just my .02 but like 'roof says, it's your car so go for it.

 

There were 2 "hot rod" Cord converibles here in Eastern Washington in the late 50's. Both converted to RWD. One with a Merc flathead. The other with a Cad flathead. The Cad one still exists,, very negleted but not for sale. Every time I see the windshield frame on that one I can't sleep for a week.