Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin history, however, you’d swear this dual-cowl phaeton was indeed a Syracuse-built car. Arch Brown had the story for SIA #93, June 1986.
