Continuous ownership of this 812 is known back to 1938, when the Cord was owned by a Mr. Blair. In 1947 it was sold to Dallas Winslow’s Auburn Cord Duesenberg Company, housed in what is today the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum here in Auburn, Indiana, and according to its ACD Club Certification documents, remained in the building well after it became the museum, until 1984. Following several intervening owners, in 2001 it was acquired by the late Ken McCartney, who would own it for over a decade, and in whose ownership it was comparison-tested with his 1937 LaSalle in the July 2005 issue of Hemmings Classic Car. Finished in its original color scheme of Palm Beach Tan over a correct Maroon pleated cloth interior with armrests, it is a beautiful example of this distinctive Indiana-built Full Classic.