Originally Posted by Idle

I looked at buying a Cord in the early 70's when they were still cheap. I was warned off of it by an old mechanic who told me, correctly as it turns out, that they had a lot of transmission problems.

I was going to use it for a daily driver.

It was tough seeing over that long hood. Not a city car but it was built for long trips down what passed for highways back then.

This is not as nuts as it sounds. When I was looking at the car it was 35 years old. How many of us drive a Mercedes that was built in 1979 or earlier?