About 50 years ago, Kent Cherpeske was able to acquire the two-door Marmon from John Warfield in Princeton, Al Cherpeske said. They drove Al’s 1962 Oldsmobile to the man’s house, where they helped him dig away dirt to open the barn doors and hitch the Marmon to the Oldsmobile. They towed it to the Cherpeskes’ parent’s home on Zinc Street and placed it inside a large garage
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This was my Dad's car. He would have loved to see this car restored but health issues got in the way of his dream. I hope the individual who purchased this treasure restores it and shows some updated pictures along the way. I miss my Dad and I hope people realize how much he loved his car and all things antique. The knowledge he had went with him the day he passed. It is nice some people are still interested in these classics.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting and sharing! I'm very interested in old cars, probably more than anything else, which you'll notice if you look around this blog.
ReplyDeleteIf you share some more, I'd be glad to post a story about your dad and his Marmon, or his love for old cars.
I agree, when we die, a lot of knowledge, etc, just disappears. I often tell people to writer their biographies, as that's the only way to preserve any small amount of the history they lived.
It's like that character who was being hunted down in Bladerunner said, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
And I've reflected on all the stuff my grandparents lived through, and knew, and never passed along, all the generations of people that lived in my little hometown... all the local knowledge and history, is gone. Like it never happened.
New owner needs to join The Marmon Club otherwise they'll totally be in the dark owning and trying to restore this very rare automobile. Marmons were owned by the very wealthy, luxury cars and advanced racing pedigree due to the engineering genius of Howard Marmon.
ReplyDeleteThe rareness of the Model L or 'Little Eight' is probably due to the fact that the model was only offered in 1927 - it was replaced in 1928 by the Series 68 & Series 78
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