1933 Marmon Sixteen Five-Passenger Sedan (Body Style 140)
- Engine
- 490.8 cu in OHV V16, 200 bhp
A 1933 Marmon Sixteen five-passenger sedan (Body Style 140), powered by a 490.8 cu. in. OHV V-16 engine, representing one of only four surviving complete examples of this body style on the final-year chassis and one of four known late Marmon Sixteens with skirted fenders. Estimated production of the entire Marmon Sixteen run was between 370 and 375 cars, with roughly 70 survivors. This example has a documented ownership chain stretching back to at least 1949 and records just 32,250 miles, having spent over five decades in a single family's dry Texas storage.
Ownership
- —Auction saleEstimate US$125,000 – US$175,000
- 1949 → 1950Acquisition unknownR.V. Mancinipartial documentation
Based in Detroit; recorded as owner in 1949 per Marmon roster documentation.
- 1950 → 1952Private saleRussell A. Worthypartial documentation
Resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; acquired the car directly from Mancini.
- 1952 → 1953Private saleFrederick Von Meringpartial documentation
Based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1953 → 1958Private saleMarvin B. Hembelfull documentation
Airline captain residing initially in South Carolina, later relocated to Marysville, Tennessee with the car; reported approximately 31,000 miles on the vehicle by 1957 per a written letter.
- 1958 → 2009-12-01Private saleHarold H. Fryefull documentation
Based in Hereford, Texas; stored the vehicle in a dry barn alongside other automobiles for over five decades, accumulating only around 1,250 miles during that period; ownership ended at his passing aged 92.
- 2009-12-01 →InheritanceFrye family heir (son of Harold H. Frye)partial documentation
Car was bequeathed upon Harold Frye's death; subsequently passed to the current owner via a family associate.
- Date unknownAcquisition unknownMr. Schreiberpartial documentation
Understood to be the original owner based on early roster records; no specific dates documented.
- Date unknownPrivate saleCurrent vendorpartial documentation
Acquired the car approximately two years before cataloguing through a contact connected to the Frye family; odometer reads 32,250 miles.
Competition
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Maintenance & restoration
No maintenance or restoration records.
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