Well having a shop full of old Vettes and old Chevy's, isn't a bad thing! And the rest all have a reason I'm sure if I mentioned my 360 plus old Coke machines, you would really think I'm crazy.

In 1927 Cadillac came out with the LaSalle; Marmon wanted to follow suit with an inexpensive Marmon. At the time, you could get a new Chevy for around 600, a new Cadillac was in the $4,200 range and a new Marmon were in the 7k range. They were truly the Rolls Royce of the US and a shame they went under in the early 30's. Anyway, in 1929 old man Marmon was out voted by the Board and they made a cheap Marmon, they named it the Roosevelt and even had a porcelain picture of Teddy on the radiator shell. Old man Marmon quit the company and the Board quit making the Roosevelt to get him to return in early 1930. Marmon then produced the sweet sixteen (one of the most impressive cars to come out of the 1930's); The Roosevelt, being the black sheep of the Marmon Company; you can imagine, not many collectors of Marmon's, wanted to give it much credit, has kind of died a quick death, very few were made or survived. It looks like a Model A on steroids! I have a very rare one, most, as you could guess were four doors with wooden wheels, mine is a two door, three window coupe with wire wheels, it also has only 15,000 miles the rubber on my floorboard looks brand new, the engine looks new, and it's an 85 year old car. Harrods in Reno had it in their collection for over 35 years, it was then sold to a private collector in the Bay Area, he had it for 17 years, and I've had it for at least 20 years. It's a pretty rare car, although I'm not sure it's worth that much, maybe 30 to 40k max.

BTW, I was in Leno's garage recently, he did a show on my Deco Tripod - Randy Grubb (a close friend - look him up on the net) was the brains behind the pod, I helped him on the design, size and mounting of the tripod, and I enjoy number one of six (all that will be produced). If you come to the SEMA Show, I will have Randy's latest creation in my booth, I'll be in hotrod alley.

Dave