Love for a Cult-Favorite Car Brand Runs in the Family

From Wall Street Journal

Alex Porter and his father, Charles, with his 1936 Cord 810 Westchester in Guadalupe, Calif.

Alex Porter, a 42-year-old who works at an online collector-car auction website and lives in San Francisco, on his 1936 Cord 810 Westchester, as told to A.J. Baime.

Charles Porter, my 86-year-old father, is a retired attorney and judge who has always loved cars—particularly Cords. When I was a kid, he took me to Cord West Coast meets. About 10 years ago, we went to the big, annual Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, in Auburn, Ind., and that’s where we had the idea for this build and this car.

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