[Lee Stewart]

Starting in the 1930s, Marmon-Herrington of Indianapolis took light duty Fords and converted them to four-wheel drive. The work was done largely by hand and a conversion roughly doubled the purchase price of a standard Ford or Mercury, so not very many Marmon-Herrington conversions were completed. The Mercurys, in particular, are extremely scarce, and according to RM Sotheby’s, only three Mercury wagons are known to have survived. This is represented as the last one and the only example from 1948.