Wattie
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Probably with oil.That looks like she is topping up their washer fluid - unbelievable!
I’ll get my coat.
Probably with oil.That looks like she is topping up their washer fluid - unbelievable!
Imagine a 16 year old seeing one of the original Marcos Volvo 1800's pull into the filling station.Going through my hard drive looking for something else (which I still haven't found!) I came across some photos I took at a localish Warwickshire Marcos owner's club gathering last year, thought I'd post these three shots.... often overlooked compared to E-Types and Astons they have such a gorgeous shape and when fitted with deep dished wire wheels with the right profile tyres on they look so 1960s. If you see one in the flesh and walk round it your eyes pick up hints of Ferrari 250GT and 275GTB here a bit of Bizzarrini 5300GT there, with the long bonnet and covered headlamps giving a hint of E-Type...
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You’d have thought they’d have given it wheels instead of castors!I always hankered after a Marcos, even more so when in later years a mate of mine bought a Mantara.
I snapped the Mantis at Silverstone in 2014, not many left I imagine:
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I always hankered after a Marcos, even more so when in later years a mate of mine bought a Mantara.
I snapped the Mantis at Silverstone in 2014, not many left I imagine:
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Going through my hard drive looking for something else (which I still haven't found!) I came across some photos I took at a localish Warwickshire Marcos owner's club gathering last year, thought I'd post these three shots.... often overlooked compared to E-Types and Astons they have such a gorgeous shape and when fitted with deep dished wire wheels with the right profile tyres on they look so 1960s. If you see one in the flesh and walk round it your eyes pick up hints of Ferrari 250GT and 275GTB here a bit of Bizzarrini 5300GT there, with the long bonnet and covered headlamps giving a hint of E-Type...
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Bit of an 'Eerie' morning. Was at our Chester Courts looking at a opening that has appeared in the Court yard (apparently where they used to hang people from a wall mounted gallows and drop the dead bodies down 16m into a pit which is now filled in, and where our hole is)!! So we have the Archeologists in also.
Whilst there I was taken down to the old cells to room 002............Myra Hindley's old cell!! The hairs on the back of my neck were right up! Apparently this was the only cell that had an en-suit so she was kept totally private and away from the other in-mates who would probably try to kill her..................I just had to sit on the toilet!!
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Agree. Panel quality typical of late 60s early 70s hand laid glass fibre. By today's standards the running gear and chassis/shell doesn't compare with today nor even at the time I test drove one, so with much regret turned away and went another route.Early Marcos cars are great but then they did have Frank Costin who was one of the great early aerodynamics engineers including early Lotus cars and the Vanwall F1 car. He was also brother to Mike Costin of Cosworth fame. Close up some Marcos cars leave a lot to be desired, poor quality materials & finish and variable panel gaps but not surprising given the hand built nature.
Total aside I was recently offered a Cox GTM mini project, was seriously tempted and if the garage was ready I probably would have took it on.
Something like this
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