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Marmon 1902-1933 - With V16-Prestige

Name: Marmon V16 1931
Brand: Marmon

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Created in 2013

Text:

Roger Gloor

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

Robin Adams - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Theo Civitello - Courtesy RM Auctions

Ned Jackson - courtesy of RM Auctions

Bonhams

Mathieu Heurtault - Courtesy Gooding & Co

Balz Schreier

Michael Alschner

Scott Drickey - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Erik Fuller - Courtesy RM Auctions

Bruno von Rotz

Teddy Pieper - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Martin Schatzmann

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Daniel Reinhard

Robin Adams - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Theo Civitello - Courtesy RM Auctions

Ned Jackson - courtesy of RM Auctions

Bonhams

Mathieu Heurtault - Courtesy Gooding & Co

Balz Schreier

Michael Alschner

Scott Drickey - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Erik Fuller - Courtesy RM Auctions

Bruno von Rotz

Teddy Pieper - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

Martin Schatzmann

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Marmon Sixteen Convertible Coupe (1931) - auctioned as lot 117 at the Gooding & Company Pebble Beach Auction on August 20/21, 2016

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Marmon HCM V-12 Two-Door Sedan Prototype (1932) - offered as lot 163 at the RM Auction Amelia Island on March 9, 2013

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Marmon Sixteen Victoria Coupé LeBaron (1933) - as lot 340 at the RM/Sotheby's auction in Monterey on August 13 - 15, 2015

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Marmon Sixteen LeBaron Club Sedan (1931) - Third place in the "American Classic Closed" category - Pebble Beach 2012 (C2-01)

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Marmon V16 Victoria Coupe Le Baron (1932) - offered as lot 119 at the Bonhams auction in Scottsdale on January 16, 2014

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Marmon T90 at the 2011 meeting for friends of nostalgic cars in Neuheim - 8 cylinders, 3.3 liter displacement in a 1929 racing car

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Marmon T68 Monoposto (1929) at the OiO (Oldtimer in Obwalden) 2013

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Marmon T68 (1928) - at the Michaelskreuzrennen 2014

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Marmon T68 (1928) - in the category of pre-war vehicles at the Grossglockner Grand Prix 2013

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Klausen Bergrennen Memorial 2006 - Marmon

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Marmon Sixteen Convertible Coupe (1931) - could not be sold at the RM Auction Arizona (January 19 and 20, 2012)

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Marmon Model 34B Speedster (1924) - as lot 159 at the RM Auction Hershey on October 9/10, 2014

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Marmon Wasp Recreation (1911) - as lot 132 at the RM/Sotheby's Hershey sale on October 6/7, 2016

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Marmon Sixteen Convertible Sedan by LeBaron (1931) - offered as lot 144 at the RM/Sotheby's sale in Amelia Island on March 12, 2016

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Summary

There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Marmon from Indianapolis, which built exclusive quality cars. One of Marmon's pioneering achievements was the intensive use of aluminum, including for drive parts.

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Howard Marmon was the technical manager of his family's flour mill factory in Indianapolis. For his first prototype car in 1902, the 23-year-old took an unusual approach: air-cooled V2 engine, innovative transmission with cardan shaft and drive unit on a subframe. A V4 model followed in 1903, and the production cars were joined by a V6 test vehicle in 1905 and even one with a V8 engine the following year. But production continued to concentrate on air-cooled V4 cars. One of the pioneering achievements was the intensive use of aluminum, not only for the bodywork but increasingly also for the drive components. In order to increase performance, a switch was made to water cooling from 1909. Ray Harroun won the first 500 miles of Indianapolis in 1911 with an OHV six-cylinder Marmon, a home race in other words.

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