Vehicle Description
LIVE AND ONLINE
Cord Automobile Company Trademark
Includes: Trademark (2936082) | Name and Heritage | Manufacturing
(automobiles and parts) | Licensing (merchandise)
SELLING WITHOUT RESERVE OR MINIMUM
Cord, the fabled automobile trademark, the choice of the rich and
famous during Hollywood's Golden Age, is on the market seeking a
buyer wishing to resurrect this great name among car makers,
worldwide. Craig Corbell bought the rights to the Cord name for
$242,000 in late 2014 from the family of the late Glenn Pray, who
had previously secured the rights to build the Buehrig-designed in
the 1960s. Over the last five years, Corbell said he "was hot to
trot busy flying all over the place" laying the groundwork for two
separate vehicles that would have worn the Cord name. Speaking to
Hemmings Classic Car Magazine in 2019, Mr. Corbell said he got to
within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord Revival project on
the road but decided to drop the project and put the rights for the
Cord name back up for sale, citing in part the lack of guidelines
from the federal government regarding low-volume replica cars. 2022
brought with it a solution to government guidelines but the years
in between sent him in a new direction, diversifying into real
estate development. "Being a visionary myself, it is my desire is
that the Cord trademark will find itself in the hands of someone
that will indeed revive it much like Stephen Wynne did for the
DeLorean Motor Company." The new buyer will secure the trademark
itself, as well as licensing and manufacturing rights of the Cord
automobile. Follow link to entire press release:
https://tinyurl.com/cordtrademarkforsale.
