Cord Automobile Company

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Cord Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1964
resolution 1967
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Tulsa , Oklahoma , USA
management Glenn Pray
Branch Automobiles

Cord Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In 1964, teacher Glenn Pray founded the company in Tulsa , Oklahoma . He also owned the naming rights of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Corporation . The designer was Gordon Buehrig . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Cord . Production ended in 1966 or 1967. Bankruptcy followed in 1967 . A total of 91 or 97 vehicles were built.

Elfman engine from Philadelphia , the radicals took over the company, but did not produce any vehicles. In 1968 it was taken over by the Sports Automobile Manufacturing Company from Mannford , Oklahoma.

vehicles

The first model from 1964 to 1966 had the additional designation 810 or 8/10 as an allusion to the fact that it was an 8:10 reduction of a historic vehicle, and the model name Sportsman . It was a replica of the Cord 810 from the 1930s. The only body shape was a two-door and two-seater convertible , for which a hardtop was also available. The body consisted of Royalex - plastic . A six - cylinder boxer engine from the Chevrolet Corvair with an 87.4 mm bore , 74.7 mm stroke , 2687 cm³ displacement and, depending on the version, 110 hp to 150 hp power drove the front wheels. The vehicle was 424.8 cm long with a wheelbase of 254 cm.

A source also mentions the replica of the Cord 812 for the period from 1966 to 1967 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cord (II).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 337. (English)
  • Ron Kowalke: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 1997, ISBN 0-87341-521-3 , pp. 812-813. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cord (II).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 337. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ron Kowalke: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946–1975. Krause Publications, Iola 1997, ISBN 0-87341-521-3 , pp. 812-813. (English)
  4. ↑ a b The Cord story (accessed January 22, 2017)