From the seller: “This is a functional vehicle although it hasn’t run for 2-3 years. It would be very easy to run the car with a replacement barrel and key. Obviously the motorcycle battery will need charging.
This is a really rare microcar. There’s one at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville Tennessee and another, rather battered 325cc diesel version cropped up on eBay a while back. Other than that, try and find one. If the Marden is interesting to well-known car collectors like Jeff Lane at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, then surely an original in very good unrestored condition should be of interest to other collectors.”
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