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This Dodge boat is a unique collaboration between Dodge and the Cord Corporation. Horace Dodge, Jr. aspired to be a boat racer and founded the Horace E. Dodge Boat Works building “Watercars.”
In adding elegance to the boats, he turned to E.L. Cord, whose Cord Corporation owned Lycoming Manufacturing, to utilize their engines. Cord agreed, and Dodge used the same Lycoming engines used in the Cord L-29 automobiles with slight modifications made for marine use and cooling. The same Cord shifting mechanism was used and a Duesenberg Model J steering wheel moved the rudder. Less than 100 were made and fewer than a dozen exist.
This 1931 Dodge boat was stored in a barn for 40 years prior to a full restoration by the donors. The African Mahogany wood was mostly replaced. Hardware was replated and missing hardware was found. All gauges were restored. The numbers-matching Lycoming engine was completely rebuilt and tuned.
