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05 Jan 2007 03:27 #6117 by gordon's
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Thanks Josh. So much time has passed that I doubt that anyone involved
is still alive to tell where they went. There must be Family survivors from
the Hupp and Graham Familys. Wonder if anyone has tried to contact them?

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04 Jan 2007 17:43 #6104 by Chris Summers
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Thanks for clearing that up, Josh.

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04 Jan 2007 15:44 #6102 by Josh Malks
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Sorry guys, that's total fiction. Here's the first paragraph of an article in Newsletter 2006-3:

"Rumors printed in an article about the Cord 810/812 in the 1950s have been repeated over and over again in print since then. To wit: the body dies for the Cord sedan were sold to a Japanese company after Graham and Hupp went under in 1941. Nissan is the company often mentioned. The rumors even suggest that the head of the company was so enamored of the Cord?s timeless styling that he could not bear to melt them down, and so they survive somewhere in a dusty warehouse, just like ?The Lost Ark?. Such presumed sentimentality from guys who were planning to attack us on December 7 of that year!"

Graham tooling was indeed sold to Nissan, but in the mid-1930s, before the Cord was even built. Read the story in the above Newsletter.

The truth is that no-one knows what happened to the Cord/Hupp/Graham dies.

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04 Jan 2007 06:22 #6100 by gordon's
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Many thanks to all who provided the information on where the Cord body
dies went. It's a said tale of woe!

Sincerely,

Peter Miller

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04 Jan 2007 01:15 #6098 by Chris Summers
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Here's the passage from Ken Purdy's 1965 piece, "Motoring's Classic Revival":

[i:2rquvx9r]Just before World War II, these dies, with...a lot of other scrap, were shipped to Japan. Most of the stuff was fired back at us, but someone in Yokohama thought the Cord dies were too nice to break up for bombs, so they're still there.[/i:2rquvx9r]

I recall reading somewhere else that they were destroyed some time around when that article was written.

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04 Jan 2007 00:49 #6096 by gordon's
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What a shame! Why Japan?

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03 Jan 2007 00:08 #6079 by Chris Summers
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They went to Japan, were stored for quite a while, and eventually were scrapped c. 1965, if memory serves.

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02 Jan 2007 19:28 #6069 by gordon's
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Then after 1941, what happened to the body dies?

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