Cord L 29
Car : Cord L 29
Year : 1929
Engine : 8 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke : 82.5?114.3 mm
Cylinder capacity : 4881 cc
Gears : 3 forward
Brake horse power : 125
Maximum speed : 77 mph
Wheelbase : 11 ft 5? ins (3.49 m)
Suspension : front: ?semi-elliptic leaf- springs ; back: semi-elliptic leaf- springs
One of the most outstanding Cord motor cars was the L 29. The engine was an 8-cylinder in-line Lycoming (the same as the engine used in the Auburn, but mounted the other way, with the clutch at the front). The bodywork, front and back, was designed by Leo Goessen. The quarter elliptic leaf-spring suspension and inner brakes and radiator were by Miller. The structure of the bodywork also derived from Auburn.

Produced in 1929, the car sold at $3,095 for the sedan, and $3,295 for the convertible. The front-wheel drive, it was feared, would mean that it had little power going uphill, especially since the engine was behind the front axle, but these fears were not justified.
Cord was in fact a finance company, which combined Cord (named after its founder Errett L. Cord), Auburn, Lycoming, the Kalamazoo Limousine Body, the Stinson Aircraft Factory and Duesenberg. Errett Lobban Cord’s own undisciplined vitality lay at the heart of the difficulties encountered by all the firms he had gathered into his empirel; but the quality of Auburn, Cords, and Duesenbergs made him one of the most prominent figures in the American automobile industry.