And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, August 19, 2024
A late '40s GMC 3/4 ton pickup with a Marmon-Harrington 4wd conversion
It's a 1940 model, sold at auction in 2009 for $231,000. https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/mo09/lots/r115-1940-ford-standard-station-wagon-marmonherrington/
'Much better than any of the junk they build now.' Maybe, maybe not. My dad grew up working in his dads car repair shop, WW2 and after, he just starts naming defects and weak design on those old cars. But I do love the 1940 Ford styling.
Sigh ...
ReplyDeleteIt's a 1940 model, sold at auction in 2009 for $231,000.
ReplyDeletehttps://rmsothebys.com/auctions/mo09/lots/r115-1940-ford-standard-station-wagon-marmonherrington/
Thanks. I thought surely that was a Ford.
DeleteVisual Search says it's a '46.
DeleteMuch better than any of the junk they build now.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a 48, not late 50's.
ReplyDeleteCould be a 1940 or 1941 Ford, and it might be 3/4 ton, but I would be surprised if so. Beauty.
ReplyDeleteAfford wagon with the chrome probably custom deluxe
ReplyDelete'Much better than any of the junk they build now.' Maybe, maybe not. My dad grew up working in his dads car repair shop, WW2 and after, he just starts naming defects and weak design on those old cars. But I do love the 1940 Ford styling.
ReplyDeleteNot a GMC
ReplyDeleteNeat truck, but I don't see the driver for that kind of money.
ReplyDeleteWhere did M-H get the drive line parts to build these conversions?
They made them.
Deletehttps://www.marmon-herrington.com/company
Its hot august nights time in reno.
ReplyDeleteMod squad???
ReplyDeleteThink that's a 39 deluxe or 40 standard.
ReplyDeleteBubbarust
Ya got two different vehicles there. The first is definitely a '40 Ford Standard. The second could be a '41 or immediately post-war.
ReplyDeletegood eye.
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