hen it was introduced, this car seemed to embody

the future of the automobile. The 810 kept the front-

wheel-drive technolog y from earlier Cord cars but

wrapped it in a striking Art Deco–style body that

eschewed running boards and featured innovative,

crank-operated, concealed headlights. It was inten-

ded to slot above the Auburn and below the Duesenberg in the

marketplace, and was priced similarly to a Cadillac.

Gordon Miller Buehrig, an in-house designer for the

Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg company, directed the creation of

this beautiful car. In lieu of a separate front grille, the front of

the car was equipped with louvers that ran below the hood line

on one side of the car, wrapped around the front of the car and

down the other side, and ended at the cowl.

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1936 Cord 810 Model C92 Beverly Sedan

Beverly Sedan