The Story




The story of how this print got started...

The Marathon Motors print found on the first page was created from old newspaper photos and Marathon advertisements collected by Barry Walker, owner of the Marathon Motor Works and the Marathon Automobile Museum, Nashville, TN. Mr. And Mrs. Barry Walker and daughters Callie and Caitlin are pictured in the red 1911 Champion Touring Sedan on the left.

Pictured is an airbrush rendering by Wegee in liquid acrylics on number 100 illustration board of the original automobile manufacturing plant. Over 30 Marathon vehicles are depicted in the artwork. Of the 10,000 Marathon automobiles produced, only seven vehicles are in existence today.

A friend of Wegee’s called one day. He said he had heard about a guy who owned some very old, special cars and that he should meet him. "He's right here in Nashville," he said. Well they finally met and he took Wegee on a tour of the building which he owns. Anyway, all he was interested in drawing was a picture of his old cars in airbrush.

But after all the information came out about the building and its history of manufacturing cars, around 10,000 of them, Wegee wanted to do more. He was thinking how he could draw all of this history into one piece of artwork. Wegee told him that he had told way more than he could really take in. Wegee went back about a week later and with only one sketch, the idea was born.

So Wegee tried to put all this history into one piece of artwork. Eight months later it was finished. Oh, the stories he could tell of the failures and successes which could fill a book. That may have given Wegee an idea!


		Wegee’s first sketch...

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