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21 Sep 2008 16:37 #11398 by dryesandno

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mike

that is a fantastic bit of research. i love finding stuff like that. imagine. your car is a movie star. and now you can prove it. nice work.

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19 Sep 2008 03:58 #11375 by Josh Malks

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Oh, well. Who's gonna know?

Incidentally, have you ever seen the movie where Boston Blackie escapes from bad guys driving an Auburn ambulance thru city streets?

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19 Sep 2008 02:19 #11373 by mikespeed35

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Josh, It was Kent Taylor in the TV shows and Chestor Morris in the Movies.
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16 Sep 2008 23:49 #11357 by Jonathan Richards

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I discovered something interesting. Sometimes, standing on the square after the parade, I have wondered what I am doing here (for the fortieth time, or whatever). After all, I've seen most of the cars, I've seen the Museum, I've even seen the auction. Not being there this once I realized why I go. It's none of those things. It's my friends, long-time and recent. And that's really whatl I missed about Auburn. But I'll try not to miss it again.

See y'all next year![/quote]

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Beautifully stated.
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16 Sep 2008 21:06 #11356 by Josh Malks

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Mike, that is great research! (Now you need a life-size Chester Morris cutout to sit in the seat.)

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16 Sep 2008 20:58 #11355 by mikespeed35

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Hi Josh, We have interviewed many old time club members and there are two things they all say, ( it's not the cars it's the people and for the most memerable moment it was there cross country trip) If they made one of course.
Members who don/t particapate much miss the biggest part of the club, FRIENDS.
By the way Joan and I are in Madison WI. doimng reasearch at the WI. Historical Sociaty. They have a large archives of old TV movies. Yeasterday we varified that my 35 Speedster was used as Boston Blackie's car in the Boston Blackie TV show in 1951. It was used in the very first episode. This has been suggested but now I can prove it.
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16 Sep 2008 14:06 #11354 by Josh Malks

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Glad to hear that, Pat. This always was (at least until fifty years ago) a nice-running Cord. Much of the credit, of course, goes to Butch and Ray who also had to replace many of the parts that had been lost over the years of attempted restorations. Sounds like they did a fine job.

But I have a theory about Cords. If it ran well right from the factory, you can beat it, and dismantle it and abuse it and when you get it back together it runs well. Then there are cars that were a bit lemony to start. These you can give a full Pebble Beach restoration to and they will still be cantankerous and unreliable!

My hats off to Butch and Ray, and I'm looking forward to the photo op that Chris has suggested.

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16 Sep 2008 12:53 #11353 by Pat Leahy

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Josh, I thought I would let you know I drove this car at Auburn, and I was very impressed with its general manners of driving. It is easy to steer, has a very light clutch and runs smoothly (makes my S/C Custom seem awkward). This is the only other ACD car I have driven, but I can say Ray Sr. and his son Butch did a great job of putting this car back on the road. Without the advise and parts from fellow club members this car would still be in the state of restoration. In less than a year, the car was back on the road, and has been to 3 meets, and covered a number of road miles. I hope this encourages many more of us to complete cars and get them back on the road (including me).

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16 Sep 2008 12:17 #11352 by Ohio AMX

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mikespeed35 wrote: I forgot to tell you the time it took so long to start and required much pushing was when Ray Jr. forgot to turn the ign. switch on. It's funny because we have all done the like. I know I have anyway.
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16 Sep 2008 06:04 #11351 by Josh Malks

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Nobody would love a photo like that more than me, Chris.

And Mike, I discovered something interesting. Sometimes, standing on the square after the parade, I have wondered what I am doing here (for the fortieth time, or whatever). After all, I've seen most of the cars, I've seen the Museum, I've even seen the auction. Not being there this once I realized why I go. It's none of those things. It's my friends, long-time and recent. And that's really what I missed about Auburn. But I'll try not to miss it again.

See y'all next year!

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16 Sep 2008 05:27 #11350 by Chris Summers

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Josh, I just automatically assumed you never missed Auburn!

Hopefully there will be another chance to get the two cars side-by-side in the future. I was hoping you had been able to get a picture of two of your Cords (three if the white "lumpy coffee table book Cord," in its current guise, was also present) next to each other.

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16 Sep 2008 04:32 #11349 by mikespeed35

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I forgot to tell you the time it took so long to start and required much pushing was when Ray Jr. forgot to turn the ign. switch on. It's funny because we have all done the like. I know I have anyway.
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16 Sep 2008 04:25 #11348 by mikespeed35

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Hi Josh, The car would start easly but the starter went bad on the Hoosier Tour and it was pushed to start it until Pat brought them a spare starter at Auburn. See what you miss when you don't come to Auburn! But I bet that Twenty year Aniversary was worth it. See you next year.
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16 Sep 2008 01:47 #11346 by Josh Malks

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Chris, I'll try again. Which two Cords. (I was not able to be in Auburn this year.)

And maybe someone will ask Butch. (Funny, it always started when I owned it.

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16 Sep 2008 00:48 #11345 by auburn653

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Ask Butch (Ray Cloud Jr.) how many trips around the hotel parking lot it takes to push start a Cord....
And, what the first step is before trying to start a car...
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16 Sep 2008 00:27 #11344 by Chris Summers

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Sorry, no, I meant the two Cords at Auburn this year.

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15 Sep 2008 22:43 #11343 by Josh Malks

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If you mean the Cord and the Jag, Chris, no. In those days cameras were for vacations and special occasions. And who would have thought that the passing in the night of an old Cord and a used Jaguar would ever be of any interest?

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15 Sep 2008 19:56 #11340 by Chris Summers

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I hope you got photos of the two cars together!

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15 Sep 2008 15:10 #11339 by Josh Malks

Eddie Lehman's Cord was created by Josh Malks

A white Cord 810 Westchester won the Mayor's Trophy at Auburn this year. Well deserved. It had belonged to the late Ed Lehman. Eddie had always wanted to finish this car and bring it to Auburn, but just didn't make it. Ray Cloud restored this car in Eddie's honor.

What most members may not know is that this car, 810 1776A, was my own Cord #3. I owned it from 1955-58. It was my daily (and only) transportation. You can see it as I owned it, at [url:1oftv35d]http://www.automaven.com/My_Cords/1958/1958.html[/url:1oftv35d] Yeah, and that's me 50 years ago.

Ed bought it from the Jag dealer in Plainfield NJ to whom I had traded it in partial payment for a 1954 Jaguar XK-120 roadster.

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