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Art & Inspiration Mormon V-16 Coupe

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by jakespeed63, Dec 4, 2020.

  1. Extraordinary design and engineering, rolled up in a personal luxury car. Jazz era Hot Rod? You be the judge.


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  2. No, that's how they made 'em;)
    Wonderful cars.
     
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  3. gnichols
    Joined: Mar 6, 2008
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    gnichols
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    from Tampa, FL

    There is only one "o" in Marmon there Jakester.
     
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  4. charlesf
    Joined: Jan 14, 2009
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    Gotta love Donald Osborne.
     
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  5. gnichols
    Joined: Mar 6, 2008
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    gnichols
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    from Tampa, FL

    Every era have their supercars, jalopies, Caddys and taxis.
     
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  6. 2935ford
    Joined: Jan 6, 2006
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    Donald, you might have cleaned the front windshield! :)
     
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  7. MArmons can have 16 cylinders... MOrmons can have 16 wives :D
     
  8. blowby
    Joined: Dec 27, 2012
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    from Nicasio Ca

    Super cool, thanks for posting.
     
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  9. jimdillon
    Joined: Dec 6, 2005
    Posts: 3,291

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    Jakespeed, the Marmon 16s were and are a fabulous car. They are really powerful and quiet and smooth. A friend of mine owns four of them. I have had a few rides in them that make me smile and got behind the wheel a few times myself. Here is a picture of me driving the wife across the bricks at Indy for the 100 anniversary celebration. Indy of course offers these pictures when you cross the bricks. This particular car is a 32 with a Le Baron body. img090-1.jpg
     
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  10. THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER
    Joined: Jun 6, 2007
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    THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER
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    from FRENCHTOWN

    A friend of mine owns a beautiful '32 sedan. Those aluminum cylinder heads had a fatal flaw that rears its head after 80 years. To remedy this he got together with other Marmon owners and they cast their own new cylinder heads with modern technological upgrades in manufacturing and materials technology.

    I call that hot rodding.
     
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  11. arkiehotrods
    Joined: Mar 9, 2006
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  12. 41woodie
    Joined: Mar 3, 2004
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    Post of the year!
     
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  13. THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER
    Joined: Jun 6, 2007
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    THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER
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    from FRENCHTOWN

    I found some pics of the "aftermarket" V-16 heads:
     

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  14. Deuces
    Joined: Nov 3, 2009
    Posts: 23,751

    Deuces

    That's a lot of machine work for those heads....
     

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