1908 Stanley Steamer Model K Semi-Racer

In 1908, this car was driven by Fred Marriott in the Giants' Despair Hill Climb at Wilkes-Barre, PA, and in June 1910, it was bought from the Stanley agent in Philadelphia by the young dealer, T. Clarence Marshall, Photographed that summer alongside 'Auburn Heights,' the Marshall family home in Yorklyn, DE, it was also driven five miles in four minutes by its new owner on a paved road near Quarryville, PA. Buying the car in 1913, the Foote brothers of Avondale, PA, dismantled it and threw the parts in the corner of their cluttered machine shop, where most of these parts were discovered by Marshall and Hyde Ballard in 1945. Ballard restored the car in the late 1970s, working from the 1910 photographs and using many of the original parts. A copyrighted drawing showing this car in front of the Ormond Garage appears on the jacket of the new Stanley book by Kit Foster. Ballard sold the car to Tom Marshall, son of the 1910 owner, in 1986. Although all 30-HP Stanley's of 1907-09 had 3-nozzle burners, this is the only one in operation today.