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In 1929, Errett Lobban "E.L." Cord founded his Cord Corporation as a holding company to manage the over 150 companies he owned, including Auburn Automobile, Lycoming Engines, Duesenberg, Checker Cab and American Airways, which would go on to become American Airlines.

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Long before megasponsors, endurance racing pioneer Ab Jenkins raced for the love of the sport, sometimes driving for more than 24 hours straight. Jay Leno had a chance to test drive Jenkins's custom Duesenberg, the Mormon Meteor III, a 750 hp monster that takes some real elbow grease to steer.

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The oldest continuous British automobile manufacturer, the Morgan Motor Company was founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan. A trained engineer, Morgan opened a garage business out of which he also sold cars and started one of England's first bus lines. After purchasing an early three-wheeled vehicle, Morgan decided to build one for personal use, with economy and speed as his ultimate goals.
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French automobile pioneer Emile Delahaye began his career as an engineer, and began experimenting with steam and internal combustion engines relatively late in life. It wasn't until he reached the age of 51 that he displayed his first automobile at the first ever Paris Motor Show. His first cars were belt driven, with single or twin cylinder engines, and it wasn't long before Delahaye joined the racing circuit to gain publicity. Faced with failing health, Delahaye took on two partners in 1898, who moved the company to Paris in 1901 to focus on the manufacture of trucks. Delahaye retired in the same year, and died soon thereafter.
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The fastest race car of the 1930s, see it run on the Utah salt flats

A rare Grand Prix car designed for the open road. Adrian Squire designed this car when he was 19. Only seven were produced before his untimely death.

Austrian born automotive legend Hans Ledwinka began his career at the age of 19, as a draftsman at the company where he would eventually make his name. Czech railway manufacturer Nesseldorfer Waggonbau was considering a go at the automobile business, and Ledwinka's designs resulted in the company's first production run. Nesseldorfer closed its automobile division during World War I, and Ledwinka moved on, only to return as chief designer after the war.
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In 1891, American Wilbur Gunn relocated to Britain to pursue a career as an opera singer, and open a branch of his father's Lagonda company. Named after a river in Gunn's hometown of Springfield, Ohio, the company manufactured tube cleaning machinery and steam equipment.
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America's elite luxury motorcar

A 1934 art deco masterpiece.