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The Car of "Unlimited Guarantee."

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:112.00 USD Estimated At:225.00 - 275.00 USD
The Car of  Unlimited Guarantee.
1912 sales catalogue of Clark Motor Cars, Shelbyville, Ind., 7 3/4 x 10 3/4, (16) pp., black on eggshell enamel."The Luxurious Car of Economical Upkeep and Unlimited Guarantee." "We do not limit our guarantee but agree to stand back of our cars as long as they are in service...." Possibly a post-June 1912-bankruptcy offering, featuring models unmentioned in Standard Catalog of American Cars: Model E "40" Torpedo Roadster, G Five-Passenger Fore-Door Touring, "33," Q, and T Torpedo Roadster, all with handsome side views and exhaustive specifications. "In determining our policy for 1912 we must confess at first we were sorely tempted to join the maddening rush... throw it together in a hasty manner...call it a car and pass it on to the purchaser...The prospective purchaser in 1912...can no longer be fooled...We have not maintained a racing team...as we preferred to put every cent...into construction...." By the following year, the marque demised. Some handling evidence, minor toning and wear, else very good. Excessively rare.