16 on ebay

Another 16 comes up on the market!! Maybe a tad pricey for me but nice to see it. It looks like a major project, but seems to have all the right parts. The funny looking bumper tabs on the rear bumper are odd and not very attractive but that can always be fixed or documented. It's nice to see Dyke Ridgeley getting the mad props he deserves for his efforts to document and catalog the History of the Sixteen. There is a funny little blurb in there about it having the "highest serial number of any Sixteen." Of course Dyke has been able to prove that there was no rhyme or reason to the numbers as far as production order went. Being a 33 Sixteen, It is one the last few Marmons made but it was funny how that was used and skirted all mention of the fact that is was not the last the Sixteen built, just the highest number. Boy, if he gets that price, I may have to change insurance levels!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rare-Marmon-Sixteen-restoration-project-Hyman-Ltd-/370602064284?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item56499ab99c

Hyman has been advertising this for a while. They bought it at auction in Ohio last year. It was previously owned by the Canton Classic Car Museum who also had it for sale for a while. Hyman has a healthy premium on it from what they paid.

Sam,

Why would that price accepted effect your insurance values on your late dads Marmons?

:confused: kaycee

Kaycee, that is so far above the appraisal numbers for the five passenger sedan Sixteen that we have and in a whole other world from he paid for it. It actually takes driving it from super-car experience to terrifying investment risk. Almost seems like it ruins it a bit. Might be how Duesenberg lovers felt in the early eighties. It's not enough to stop us from driving it but enough to give pause.