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Completely restored Tom Mix death car 1937 812 Cord Supercharged Phaeton Art Print
by David Lee Guss
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Completely restored Tom Mix death car 1937 812 Cord Supercharged Phaeton art print by David Lee Guss. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The battered 1937 Cord Tom Mix death car was transported to RKO Radio Studios in Los Angeles where it was subsequently bought by Hollywood hardware... more
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The battered 1937 Cord Tom Mix death car was transported to RKO Radio Studios in Los Angeles where it was subsequently bought by Hollywood hardware store owner Ray Nelson.
After going through several owners the car was disassembled with the engine ending up in a LA machine shop, the rest packed off to a Chicago junkyard.
In October 1966 Nelson, seeking to own the car again, reassembled the vehicle including the rebuilt engine. Following his death the Cord passed through several more owners and ended up on display at the Imperial Palace Automotive Museum in Las Vegas.
More owners ensued with Scottsdale, Arizona based entrepreneur Bob White finally buying the vehicle at an auction in Branston, Missouri in the spring of 2010.
Despite being restored three times much wreck damage remained including a crushed cowl and numerous "half-inch-deep lead filling" indentations.
The complete restoration, finished in the fall of 2011, included reproducing...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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