Mrs. Cord used to hang out at the Harrah's museum in Reno NV. I was 11 and drooling over his 812 while spouting facts to my family. She introduced herself to me. What a day 55 years ago.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

What a lucky encounter!

@martinda7446

3 жыл бұрын

Wow Eric!

It's like someone from the 30s travelled to the present day, studied a load of modern cars then travelled back to their own time and built their own "modern" car with 1930s technology. What a magnificent car! 😍

I really cannot believe you actually found one of these to drive in this country, but what an achievement to be able to fulfil what must have practically been a lifetime's ambition. Well done, Mr Richardson!

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

It really was. Now I need to buy one somehow..

@lloydvehicleconsulting

3 жыл бұрын

@@furiousdriving , better start saving up, I suppose!

@dieselfan7406

2 жыл бұрын

Somewhere in the UK is a right-hand drive 812 convertible in factory green. Featured in the Sunday Times magazine in the late 60s when it was for sale. An uncle tried to buy it many years ago but it looked like the car or a divorce so it never happened! Shame - it is the most beautiful peice of art with an engine on the planet!

Fan-chuffing-tastic! ! ! I am actually jealous of you. What can you say about the Cord that hasn't already been said a thousand times. If this video isn't the most viewed of your extensive library, there is no justice in the world. Brilliant.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

There arnt may Cord videos on KZread so it will be interesting to see how it does

@martinwarner1178

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree Sir.

Here in America it’s 2:30am but I couldn’t wait until the morning to see this video! The Cord is one of my absolute favorite cars but I’ve never actually seen one in the flesh. It looks wonderful and terrifying to drive all at the same time!

A proper piece of old school steel. Hello from Slovenia.

Glad you got to experience this incredible car, so ahead of it's times. It's like something out of the Batman films 1989-1992.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they were very deco and heavily influenced by the 30s comics

This is the first time that I have seen such a detailed view of the interior of the Cord; that dashboard is just gorgeous! Thank you.

I must hand it to you, you are a brave man, I wouldn't dare to leave first gear on such narrow roads with such a clenode of a car! Thank you for a thurough car test of one of the most interesting cars of that era! And a big thank you to the owner for letting us tag along! :)

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunately I grew up in the country side like this and was barreling around in a Rover 2000 on these sorts of roads! Its the other drivers that are worrying..

@Bratfalken

3 жыл бұрын

@@furiousdriving I'm more worried something will appear in the road that isn't another car or vehicle.. it look's like driving with a horses shades for a swede where roads are at least 7 meters wide with large ditches and clear cut up to 13-20 meters.

The concentration needed to operate the gears was so apparent. The mechanical nature of all the internal switchgear was fantastic, yet the actual gear box (the oily bit) was electronically controlled. What an amazing car. Great video.

Compare that dash to a modern Mercedes absolutely ghastly 'multiple ipads next to each other' approach

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

Жыл бұрын

Nonsense. Technology moved on.

Auburn used to have the 100mph confirmation plaque. A few years ago I saw a Cord Cabriolet in two tone brown and cream paintwork. It was so eye catching.

I had a poster of the 812 on my bedroom wall when 35 years ago. It is an amazing piece of engineering and styling, I just love it! Glad you could show us this magnificent machine, Matt! 👍😄

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

I had the toy, Ive not come across a poster of one!

What a piece of kit, so advanced. The gearbox whine on taking off was epic. Great drive. Many thanks. AJ

How could anyone not want one of those? Just look at it!

Incredible car. I think I read that the drag co-efficient was extremely good for a car of the period. The styling is so smooth, no rain gutters, everything flush fitting. So ahead of it's time. Shame about the bumpy road but at least you were able to drive it, which is amazing. Thanks. 😊👍

I love the design of those dials and gauges, the 30's really did do design so well, being interesting and beautiful without being too excessive.

OMG... watching this brought tears to my eyes... that car is just SO beautiful! Inside even more than outside! You were incredibly brave to drive it on those narrow country lanes. But that was what English roads were in the 1930’s, so it was appropriate! I’d love to drive it along those roads very late at night, with nothing else on the road.

What an amazing car for the 1930's! That gearbox is almost like the paddle shifts available now, except for the fact that it required a clutch. I'm a big fan of Art Deco so I was always going to love it!

WOW!!!! Very surprised to see that you were able to get your hands on THIS!!! And though I understand, I am surprised that it is your all-time favorite car. That being said, I always consider the 1930s and the 1960s the golden age(s) of motoring. Almost everything that came out in those two decades appeals to me. Very forward thinking, modern, clean / pure. Thanks for posting this!

That’s about as nervous a look as I’ve ever seen when you were pulling out of junctions and selecting gears. What a wonderful old beast.

My ultimate Art Deco automobile is the 34 Chrysler Airstream coupe. Though it was not as advanced as the Cord.

WOW...incredible. Thanks Matt. Must be like turning the Titanic around! Just out of interest, that $1995 in today's cash equivalent is about $38,000 (£27,500)

Just imagine seeing one of these in the 1930s let alone driving or riding in one. What an amazing car.

Oh my Zeus!! I am so jealous!. I totally love the Cord 810 and 812. One of the most important cars America ever gave the world. Certainly one of the best examples of Art Deco on the road ever.

You're a lucky guy Matt. This car is a work of art.

This is a KZread highlight! Wow what a car Matt, the odds of you getting behind the wheel of one of these. Such a legendary car and a groundbreaking one too. The Art Deco look is the best bit!

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

There are only handful in the UK so when a friend said he was buying one I couldnt believe it!

Absolutely gorgeous looking car. I love Art Deco styling, which explains why I love this car. Such an advanced car for its time.

Wow, furiousdriving, i have no words to express my impressions. Also those are very cool first in the world pop-up headlights!

one of my all time favorites too, but when they were new they were notoriously unfinished, so a restored one is actually better than new, as was a 2 year old used one. Still my favorite that I'll ever get a chance to have! Graham ended up with the body shells after ACD went out of business, they are even rarer now!

That’s the full Dirk Pitt right there😎👍 You needed to be rocking the Hawaiian shirt driving the Cord.

@hoofie2002

3 жыл бұрын

I wondered where I'd heard of Cord before.

Nice to see that sometimes meeting your heroes works out just fine.

Fantastic! Flash Gordon's daily driver. Reminds me of a 30's streamliner locomotive. This amazing mix and contrast of cars is what makes this channel so good, thanks Matt.

Remember seeing this Cord in the background of one of your previous videos hoping you would get to drive it. Glad you had so much fun in it!

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

It was this one, was waiting for dry weather and a couple of jobs to be done

that makes me want to go rewatch 'the shadow' from the 90s with alec baldwin, because the taxi driver character in it drove a Cord. it was amazing watching you take that car down those teeny English country lanes also

@jimd385

3 жыл бұрын

Great movie, great car.

These were built in my hometown of Connersville, Indiana, and my grandpa worked in the old Cord factory about 30 years after Cord went out of business.

That's a most wonderful and unforgettable experience! And a rewarding one, I imagine, since it obviously takes some get used to driving it. This and the Lincoln zephyr were the American design highlights of their time, it's obvious how advanced the Cord looked in the mid-1930s.

@emjayay

3 жыл бұрын

The Zephyr was really dated mechanically with mechanical brakes and non-independent front suspension (because of old Henry) although the body was a streamlined monocoque.

@johang7498

3 жыл бұрын

@@emjayay I know there's a big difference under the skin between those 2 when you compare their chassis and all other technique, I was just referring to the body design. In that respect, zephyr may have been more influential, since so many other makes (American and European) more or less copied its look in the late 1930s and even 1940s. When you consider every aspect, there's obviously no doubt that Cord was way more advanced.

Concentration level while driving 110%. Your description of the design and operating details is fantastic. The Cord was a superb design exercise even if somewhat over complex. Great vid

@altaclipper

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, it was too ambitious for the available technology. Those designers and engineers shot for the stars. If E. L. Cord hadn’t had such a big, healthy ego, we wouldn’t have had that car.

The Great Depression really did a number on the automotive world, didn't it? Cord, Dusenberg, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow, Peerless, Clyno, and Star among many, many other foreign and domestic marques. It's always fun to imagine what if.

@planestrainsdogsncars4336

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah ..The Cord was called the baby Duesenberg

@davidthehillbilly7995

3 жыл бұрын

The Pierce-Arrow V12 engine managed to live on for years and provided an invaluable service. When P-A sold their assets, American LaFrance bought the rights to the engine and used them to power their fire engines through the 50s and into the 60s....

Excellent video! Lovely visuals combined with great explanations of what we are seeing. I’ll be watching this more than once.

My dad told me that he worked at GEC in Wembley in 1937. He said that, one lunchtime, he saw a Cord. It took off like a rocket - he had never seen a car accelerate so fast.

Watching this makes me pinch myself that it's mine ! Great job Matt.

Nice seeing it in scale with a person in front of it. I always imagined it being bigger than what it is, but seeing a person in front of it really put it in scale.

Very interesting indeed! Magnificent car. Graham bought the body dies and there was a run of Graham Hollywood models in 1940. The front was completely redesigned and the car was made rear wheel drive, but the body from the cowl back was the same as the Cord 810/812. As an aside, there was at least one British car in the early 30s that used a preselector gear change. Douglas Bader had his first drive after losing his legs in one. It may have been a Jowett. He used an umbrella to manage the clutch.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

there was a 3/4 size replica version in the 60s as well

I've been watching some of you're videos for some time with interest, and seriously considering subscribing to your chanel more than onece( Just because I kind of have a "bunch"of subscriptions on KZread, cause it's a lot more interesting then TV... "Just stating the obviouse, right?!"...) But this one...! This one is the video that convinsed me to subscribe... The striking beauty of this peace of art, the technological advances for the 30's... It's not something normal on "your everyday youtuber"... Right? Keep up the motering vibe pure... I've melted with this Cord, real Art on weels, as a car should be (cause in our days they're all kind of the same :( ...) Thank you very much for this one, it made my day, it was just inspireing... Even if you don't read this, that's ok, I just had to put it out there... It's just pure art on weels... Again, thankyou, and God bless...

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subbing, it makes a big difference to the channel. This isn't something many car you tubers would look for but Id rather drive this than a Lambo

I'm not generally a fan of older cars like this, but that is utterly fantastic.

Also one of my all time favourite vehicles. The architect Frank Lloyd wright owned several Cords including and L29 and 810 drop head.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

they would have been perfect for him

Thank you for taking us all along for the ride in this rare, beautiful classic. Bruce Wayne drove a Cord in Batman the Animated Series which is why I love this car. It was almost the exact same color as this one, too!

This is the third time I'm watching this video. Can't have enough of this automobile icon.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Im still amazed I got one on here

Best "Goes for a drive" yet. Loved it!

Wow, and yes I’m jealous. Very Jules Vernes

Mat that was awesome. I'm flabbergasted by the style and design of that car....made nearly NINETY years ago! Superb to look at, both outside and in. I reckon it would fit in really well amongst today's designs....imagine it with updated technology under the bonnet and the steering and suspension. I can see it floating along on the motorway, teasing the BMWs and Mercs. Nice one!

WOW. I want one. What a gorgeous classic car. Absolutely love the dashboard, and the gear selector reminds me of the ones we use to have on the old Bristol vr busses amongst others. Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work.

Thanks for this Matt. One of my favorite cars of all time. I’ve never seen one being driven. Bouncy! It must have looked like a space ship in the 1930’s

Great vid and no need to explain that you were enjoying it, it was there for everyone to see. Love the whine from the gearbox 👍👍👍

The Autocar test speed of 121mph isn't actually all that surprising based on the way the vehicles would have been tested. At the time there really wouldn't have been many public roads where it would have been possible to break the ton, so the magazine would have been likely to have used a race track, which, like Brooklands in Surrey, would have been very likely to be a high banked circuit, and it's perfectly possible to reach a higher speed on a high banked bowl than it is on the flat. In the US, however, the cars were tested on a fairly normal, flat, public road copying test track. It also has to be said that Cords were never tested to their maximum speed on the test track before they were delivered, just to a fairly sensible lower speed of 110mph that could be considered to be potentially achievable on public roads with much less traffic than today to ensure that the vehicles would be safe if pushed to such speeds by the original owners. It's somewhat the reverse to today where vehicles will be tested to their maximum speed on high speed bowls, so the maximum speeds recorded for them are unlikely to be achievable on public roads, other, perhaps, than for vehicles intended for emergency services use which often have somewhat tuned engines and, often, a lower vehicle weight due to them not being loaded up with unnecessary extras that would be considered standard on a civilian vehicle. I believe the engineers, and E. L. Cord himself, rightly felt that the maximum speed was utterly irrelevant as it would not be achievable for the owners anyway, and so felt there was absolutely no need to spend money testing for it, or to risk breaking customers' cars by attempting to achieve it when the vehicles were road tested before delivery, which was a very intelligent position to take and one that modern manufacturers should follow, rather like Rolls Royce used to where such things were merely described as being adequate...

You looked terrified driving that Matt and I can see why, what a gorgeous car.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

I was worried about messing up the gearbox!

Incredible car! It's such a shame that Cord didn't survive as a car company.

Matt, so happy for you that you got to experience your favorite car. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Wow, wow and again, just wow! I think you got all of the internet jealous there, Matt.

Wow fabulous, 85 years old. It's arguable in 2084 if there is a car today that would be as stunning in design as Cord is today 2021.

One of my all-time favourites too. Kudos to you, Matt (and thanks for the vid)!

Nice. A real 'daily driver' and not some museum piece.

I remember it making an cameo in one of your older videos. What a stunning details, incredible! I really like it. Dashboard is the most beautiful one I've ever seen.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was when he'd just bought it, first time Id seen one in years!

I have only ever driven one pre-selector vehicle, a double decker bus, and I couldnt get my head around it at all, it was just wrong, glad I got to drive one though. that car is um, ah eh, uh yes, words just fail me, but well done on getting to drive one of your dream cars..

In America, they are now museum exhibits.I am impressed you found one running on public roads today, I wonder how long it took the engineers to sort out the trans-axle design.like finding a neanderthal with a cell phone. Cheers and congratulations on piloting one!!

Amazing car, so beautiful. The overall design is beautiful, the fit and finish are outstanding...you can see why this would have cost some multiple of a Ford or Chevy at the time.

So beautiful! The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg in Auburn Indiana is my favorite (so far) car museum. It's in the original building and is very high Art Deco.

Amazing car! Great review Mat, I absolutely love these vintage car reviews.

Yes that plate referring to being tested at speed is REAL and can also be found on the Aubern's!!

Cool. I had the Matchbox one. It seemed more of a model than a toy, so I put it in my parents' display cabinet. I think ir's still there.

interesting to see a pre selector being used,Daimler and lanchester used these right up to the mid 50s(Wilson pre selector)and some French makes like hotchkiss had them also (cotal pre selector)

Incredible car, incredible review. Thank you Matthew for presenting it.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! And a dream come true

Wonderful machine - you're very lucky to get a drive; pre-selectors were very common on buses of the fifties and sixties (and Daimlers).

Beautiful car, glad to see you having so much fun with it 👍

I really like the over the shoulder camera position you've used there whilst driving.

WHAT? Do you realise how lucky you are to *drive* one of these, let alone look at it?? Always been a dream to even look at it in real life. Lucky, and a great video because I felt like I had a ride in it. Cheers for the video

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes I do

@supertrinigamer

Жыл бұрын

@@furiousdriving Fab. Looking back on the comment it seems a bit pretentious but I didn't mean for it to come off that way!! Just glad that you got the opportunity.

One of the first production Front Wheel Drive cars!

this car brings back memories of the first mafia game for me

This was made less than ten years after the last Ford Model T rolled off the production line. Shows how quick the rate of car development was pre WW2.

@armorer94

3 жыл бұрын

It also shows how dated the model T had become. It was Edsel Ford who had to constantly push his father into newer technologies. For example, Fords didnt have hydraulic brakes until after WWII. Most others had them by the mid 1930's.

@bryanpalmer9660

3 жыл бұрын

@@armorer94I agree-read epic book FORD Edsel Ford tried hard to modernize the Model T and was brutally overuled by his father which eventually wore Edsel down.

@mescko

2 жыл бұрын

@@armorer94 Henry loathed having to pay for the rights to use technologies owned/patented by others. Just good 'ol stubbornness.

トヨタ博物館に行った時、この車があり、 興味を持つようになりました。 言葉は分かりませんが、楽しめました。 ありがとうございました。

Sounds very like a vintage bus pulling away. But it looks very much more complicated than either a conventional manual gearbox or a regular automatic. The only advantage of the preselector arrangement seems to be that it reduces the physical effort of changing gear. That interior though is a work of art.

Fascinating but can't you see why GM brought their engineering expertise (and dollars) to bear on developing Hydramatic for introduction in 1940. 200;000 units sold by 1942! That was also the year of my all time favourite dashboard on the '42 DeSoto which also had concealed headlamps.

@emjayay

3 жыл бұрын

And Chrysler with power steering in 1951. The '42 Desoto is not well known because car production stopped after a couple months. The postwar facelifted version eliminated the concealed headlights. Look up the review on Hemmings - …"the chic new Fifth Avenue Steering Wheel 'hands' a cigarette to you at the flip of a convenient lever." What more could you want in a car? (My '62 Lincoln had four ashtrays and lighters!)

The emblem on the front of the hood is something that I have seen in pictures of just a few Cords, I believe just on Cords in Europe - it was nice to see a close up to see the details.

Ever since my mate had a matchbox one, in red with a white roof, I loved these. And always will. You are so lucky... I'd jut be happy to sit in it!

love the sound of that gearbox

Pleased for you that you got to meet your “hero”. You looked a little nervous driving it; I would be too. What a great car and excellent video.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

I was worried about damaging the gearbox! It got much easier as it went along

@altaclipper

3 жыл бұрын

I would have been terrified.

Mindblowing! I really hope this video goes viral

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

“The Shadow” was driven around in a one of those in the 1994 Alec Baldwin movie, it was disguised as a taxi. Great upload mate.

I can’t believe you actually found one to drive in the UK. I had a Matchbox Days of Yesteryear model of this as a kid and always thought it was extremely cool looking. And it was that colour!. Can’t beat Art Deco styling.

Wow a Cord, I loved them as a kid. So it was the L29 model that was the first American FWD production car, thanks. That 810 is a real beauty. Armstrong Siddeley used a pre-selector (auto) up to the Sapphire model I think, a friend of my dad used to drive one.

This was a fantastic video; full of information and enthusiasm.

Wow, such a majestic and yet stealth design. Congratulations on getting to drive it, and thank you for filming it. BTW when you filmed the dashboard the auto-focus kept hunting. You might consider switching to manual focus, zoom all the way in, set the focus and then zoom out. It'll keep the focus that way.

@furiousdriving

3 жыл бұрын

it was the old Z6, new Z6II is finally back from repairs!

I'm jealous. I worked in a 3 man shop that rebuilt a '37 Beverly and never got to drive it. To be fair, after watching this video I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. Looks like a lot of work to me....

@emjayay

3 жыл бұрын

That must have been a really interesting job though.

We went to the Cord/Dusenberg museum in Auburn Indiana about 18 years ago. Well worth a visit! And the Studebaker museum only about 80 miles from there in South Bend.

Fascinating background! Growing up in Wimbledon in the 60s our next door neighbour had one - in a faded shade of grey it always looked quite menacing. Seem to remember it was started only twice a year. Apparently a family heirloom (but they were Honourable!). Astounding to think that a 30-year old car in those days seemed a total relic, while an equivalent vintage these days (early 90s model) seems almost contemporary. Very minor comment: would be nice to tripod mount the camera when going round the dashboard as it tended to jump around a lot, sometimes falling out of focus.

It's like something out of a comic book. I fact I was thinking Batman before you mentioned it. You can see why people go to events in cars like this in period clothing etc... It must be like stepping into a different life at the wheel of a car so different to what most of us drive today.

There is also a "Beverly" version with a late 1930's style Chris Bangle bulbous trunk for more trunk room. Also check out the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado - the designers of that also FWD car were clearly looking at the Cord 810.

I’ve loved this car my whole life. E. L. Cord and Gordon Buehrig are cultural heroes of mine.

What a wonderful, wonderful automotive masterpiece! Thank you!