The Front-Drive MASTERPIECE Everyone FORGOT

SUBSCRIBE! 🔧 (It's free)    / @whensteelspoketv   WATCH MORE: 🚗🏁    • American Power Stories   Ninety years later, the strangest thing is what is still standing. Not the car. The airline. A salesman named Errett Cord turned one failing carmaker into an empire of around a hundred and fifty companies. Duesenberg. Aircraft. Engines. And two front wheel drive cars so far ahead of everyone that one now hangs in a New York art museum. He had every edge, and still let the car with his own name on it go first, in a single summer, when the regulators started asking questions. The reason it ended is not the one most people remember. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Museum Car That Climbed In Reverse 1:17 - The Salesman Who Built An Empire 2:45 - Front Wheel Drive When Detroit Said It Couldn't Be Done 4:34 - The Worst Timing In Automotive History 5:13 - The Coffin Nose And The Baby Duesenberg 6:08 - Headlights That Vanished Into The Fenders 7:21 - The Gamble That Broke Its Reputation 9:05 - The Supercharged 812 And Its Chrome Pipes 10:10 - The Empire Switched Off 11:39 - What Survived, And What It's Worth Now #Cord #ClassicCars #Duesenberg #CarHistory #Auburn #CoffinNose #AmericanCars #ForgottenCars