No, the Cord isn’t a sports car
I am catching up on my Old Cars reading and came across your article in the Sept. 1 issue on the Cord 810/812 being a sports car. Since I own many sports cars and, oddly enough, a Cord 810 Westchester (it’s a very late 1936), I feel compelled to chime in.
Before I bought the Cord, a local Classic Car Club of America member suggested I should stop by and pick up his membership directory and contact people in it who owned what I was looking for, and then contact them about trying to buy a car “like theirs.” This was brilliant!
I contacted 20 people in the surrounding five states (plus another state) on a Friday afternoon in January. By the following Monday, 13 people had contacted me (two with cars for sale). They all had a list of why I didn’t want one, which is why I believe they are not more valuable. The Cord owners said wheels fall off, they catch on fire, transmissions fail, they leak in the rain, etc. They all had the same list — I’m sure there must be a place
