The Marmon

Yesterday I made another one of those odd discoveries that can happen only when one rescues old photographs as a hobby. I found a Marmon. Okay. Okay. A Marmon is a car. Marmon automobiles were manufactured from about 1913 to 1933. There is a good history of them on Wiki and a fine collector’s web site The Marmon Club. It was the first car to have a rear view mirror. A Marmon auto was the winner of the FIRST Indianapolis 500 in 1909. But today, more than a hundred years after the company started, there are only a few still around in the proud hands of collectors. The Marmon was an expensive, premium automobile and relatively few were made each year. Some models sold new for more than $6,000 when Fords were selling for less than $600. So imagine my satisfaction when I discovered an old photograph of a guy with his foot on the running board of, yes, a 1928 Marmon model 78.

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