1930 Twine L29 Hayes Coupe by means of Hayes Frame Corporate Chassis 2927005, engine FD2638A
Offered for $1,078,000 at 2008 Gooding & Corporate.
Some of the strange one-off L-29 Cords is that this Hayes Coupe, which used to be a collaboration between Depend Alexis de Sakhnoffsky and the Hayes Frame Corporate. On the 1929 Monte Carlo Concours, it gained the Grand Prix award. A couple of days later, on the Beaulieu Concours, the Twine gained the coveted Grand Prix d’Honneur. It then toured the USA to nice acclaim.Without equal illustration of a ‘one-off-custom-bodied’ car is that this surprising coupe designed for the Hayes Frame Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Its major goal used to be to advertise the Hayes possible for contract frame development and to draw the eye of Twine and the arena’s automakers.Upon its crowning glory, this automobile used to be despatched to Europe and entered in numerous prestigious French concours d’Elegances. Concours regulations of the time said that the automobile should be pushed to the display, and Hayes’ first problem used to be to get the automobile from Michigan to Paris for the 1930 Concours.
Some of the strange one-off L-29 Cords is that this Hayes Coupe, which used to be a collaboration between Depend Alexis de Sakhnoffsky and the Hayes Frame Corporate. On the 1929 Monte Carlo Concours, it gained the Grand Prix award. A couple of days later, on the Beaulieu Concours, the Twine gained the coveted Grand Prix d’Honneur. It then toured the USA to nice acclaim.Without equal illustration of a ‘one-off-custom-bodied’ car is that this surprising coupe designed for the Hayes Frame Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Its major goal used to be to advertise the Hayes possible for contract frame development and to draw the eye of Twine and the arena’s automakers.Upon its crowning glory, this automobile used to be despatched to Europe and entered in numerous prestigious French concours d’Elegances. Concours regulations of the time said that the automobile should be pushed to the display, and Hayes’ first problem used to be to get the automobile from Michigan to Paris for the 1930 Concours.
In 1991, after 50 years of possession, Brook Stevens offered his masterpiece to Blackhawk Museum. The Hayes Coupe used to be offered once more just a few months later to the present proprietor. Beneath present possession the automobile used to be despatched to the 1993 ACD Nationwide Meet the place it used to be qualified as a Class 1 Unique Automotive, and awarded First in Elegance.
This perfection – blended with the stunning proportions, lengthy hood, extraordinarily low profile, loss of operating forums, distinctive window form and the sumptuous fabrics within the cockpit – gifts a novel car that owes not anything to earlier designs from any producer or coachbuilder. Put relatively merely, the stylistic options of the Hayes Coupe used to be manner forward in their time.
