Today we tend to think of front-wheel-drive in association with cheaper cars, or cars that are decidedly unglamorous. But, when the technology was still new, the possibilities that it offered were exciting, and it genuinely did bring about a revolution in automotive design. The most famous of the early front-wheel-drive cars is the Citroen Traction Avant, a car that was actually just given the name for the French word for front-wheel-drive. The Citroen certainly popularized front-wheel-drive, but several years before it debuted, an American company called Cord introduced the system for a new model called the L-29.
Despite its revolutionary drivetrain layout, the L-29, which debuted in 1929, didn’t look especially different from the other cars in its price range at the time. It was also introduced just as the stock market crashed, so it never did sell all that well. Cord’s second front-wheel-drive model, however, was a whole different story. Not only did it have this new and highly advanced drivetrain, but the styling now looked the part, and nothing before or since looked like it. This car was the 810, which was renamed the 812 in its second year of production after a number of design tweaks were made.
Continue reading to learn more about the 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Phaeton.
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