trimacar Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 interesting... Vintage Rare 1931 Marmon V16 needs transmission bell housing Dash other parts | eBay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wow, what a project! One of the more unusual body styles, but how to find the missing pieces!?!? An ambitious restoration to be sure, but with nice examples selling for more than $200K, perhaps there's some upside to this one, provided you can find the parts.Is this a previously unknown Marmon Sixteen, or has it already been "discovered" and documented by the guys in the club?Cool find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 It has been on eBay before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 One of the more unusual body styles, but how to find the missing pieces!Isn't that just the standard trunk-back club sedan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I guess it's less common than the regular 5- and 7-passenger sedans, but hard to say that anything with production numbers in double digits and survival rates as low as a Marmon Sixteen is common. I know I'd rather have that body style than some of the larger sedans, and know that Hyman has one with a '70s restoration for $200K, so there's some value there. Still, that's an awfully big bite to take... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I thought this was one of the two sedan body styles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old car fan Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Love the car ,but a car you would be swimming fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted "Wildcat65" Nagel Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I can't see the pictures anymore, but Dad had a 16 in pieces but his favorite body style he calls the "Close Coupled Sedan"- is that what was advertised?Dad had 2 Marmon 16's when we lived near Detroit, he ended up selling them to a restorer named Ray Jones in 1970 or so. Both were sedans, one close coupled one 7 passenger (my guess). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambarn Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) Marmon called the five passenger sedan with the trunk a close coupled sedan and the standard sedan with trunk rack, a five passenger sedan. These are the two most common body styles, along with the coupe. All other styles (7 passenger Sedan and touring, club sedan, limousine, Victoria coupe and convertible sedans) are all in the single digit range when speaking of known existing cars. the rarest existing body style... The town car owned by Clive Cussler (yes, that Pepto Bismol Pink one). Funny Marmon Sixteen fact: With a production believed to be at 392, the Sixteen was, at manufacture time, the rarest model of Marmon. Today with 95 known vehicles ( a couple are hardly parts cars) the Marmon Sixteen is the most common existing model of Marmon (all numbers are according to the Marmon Club Registry: Thank you George Bradley for assembling the numbers and Dyke Ridgeley for his phenomenal work cataloging the remaining Sixteens).Wildcat - The closed coupled may be my favorite as well. Buehrig's work seemed to be focused on this model and it just works to my eye. You don't happen to have any paperwork or body numbers/engine numbers do you? It would be interesting to see where they are now. Edited April 21, 2012 by sambarn (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 68427vette Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 (edited) love the car, anyone have anymore info, NO trans, ouch..., i just passed on a different car,, i want something different,, anymore help??? or info please pass it my way,,i want a Marmon V16!! jc Edited April 22, 2012 by 68427vette (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Easily a 200 to 400k restoration if done professionally. Buying a finished one is a much saner idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickelroadster Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 To be correct ,you should call it a Marmon 16. Marmon did not use a v even though the engine is a v-16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambarn Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Or even more correct, just Sixteen . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 68427vette Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 rookie mistake,, yes, i want a sixteen:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 The current owner of the Marmon V-16 sedan purchased the car about ten years ago from another Southern California collector for $18,000. The asking price of $41,777 is too high considering the car's condition and missing parts. I believe that finding Duesenberg Model J parts are less difficult than finding Marmon V-16 parts.Hopefully, the seller will set a more realistic price so that this rare car can be restored. Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 68427vette Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 thanks for all and any information,, its been for sale for a LONG TIME also.jeff c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted "Wildcat65" Nagel Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 I will have to interrogate my dad for any info he may have still.I was fascinated by the grill, @ 12 yo was trying to polish the rust off with a SOS pad in the laundry sink. Dad had an extra 16 block and an unmachined NOS head in the parts pile, along with a beat up instrument cluster... Oh how I wish that stuff was still around!!! Are the cars that Joe Bettis up in Vermont known? I think he had 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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