Glenn Pray, originator of the replica Cord, dies

Image courtesy David Turner Replica cars have become, over the last few decades, something of a mixture between automotive curiosity, automotive battleground, and automotive joke. Cheap unauthorized fiberglass imitations have led many people to dismiss the concept of replicars entirely, but it hasn’t always been that way, and not every replicar manufacturer worked out of […]

On Deck: 2010 Auburn Auctions and Festival

As the dust settles from another record weekend in Monterey, California, attention now turns to the upcoming 55th Annual Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival. Held in and around downtown Auburn, Indiana, just blocks from the ACD Auto Museum, a popular part of the festivities includes the two auctions.
For the third consecutive year, Worldwide Auctioneers will hold […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Samco-Cord

There’s been a movement afoot recently to legitimize Cord 810/812 replicas such as this 1968 Samco Cord by noting that they weren’t homebuilt hackjob kit cars and were instead assembled in factories as actual production cars. I look at it this way: What automobile built in the 1960s, replica or not, is not considered a […]