The idea of this is that I'll get all you Marcos owners and enthusiasts to send me photos of your cars or Marcos related vehicles that you've spotted in your travels.
The idea of this is that I'll get all you Marcos owners and enthusiasts to send me photos of your cars or Marcos related vehicles that you've spotted in your travels.
Two cars of the Month (or every other month) is becoming a habit I must break, but at least you're not being short changed, it's still 12 cars a year!
First Car of the Month is Christian Fey's car, snapped on the Le Mans Tour 2003, by Claus Geitner.
Chrisitan writes :
The car was originally coloured in dark silver grey metallic and the first MARCOS with a Rover V8 injection engine. First Owner was Jem Marsh. The car is on the sales brochure for the 25th anniversary.
Next month I will start a complete restauration of the car. The chassis has heavy rust problems and will be rebuild from Nicco Baas. In the menatime I will repaint the car in the original colour and do some work on the engine, renew clutch and overhaul the gearbox. If everything works, first "roll out" will be the "Le Mans Tour 2004".
Second Car of the Month is Andr� Kronander 3 litre Volvo.
Andr�, from Gothenburg in Sweden, writes : Colin Feyerabend helped me buy the car in 1975, when it was yellow
It was the first Marcos that was built with the Volvo 3 litre engine. The English reg no was SWV555J and the car was tested in Motor December 19,1970, Motorbrief test no 54/70 and in Autocar 15 april 1971.
The chassis no is 5781.
It is a Marcos 3 liter Volvo that is tuned to about 260bhp. The crankshaft is stroked to 88 mm that gives 3,3 liter and I have three double 48 mm Delortos, and faster camshaft and bigger valves..... (In the middle at the eightes I had 93mm pistons in the motor too - that gave 3.6 liter and a lot of power in two years, but then I had problems with the cylinder head gasket.
I have also put an overdrive from Volvo 164 to the car that is reinforced with roller bearings.
In front I put a Vitesse anti-rollbar and at the rear a Watts-link. The front wheels have got ventilated disk from Peugeot 306i (They are 20,5 x 266 mm and suits very well) and Wilwood 4pot calipers. Weight is 1.7 kg instead of std 3.5 kg. Avon adjustble shock absorbers. I have also 15x7" Minilightweels.
The safetybelt comes from a WV Passat -98 and are "powder-operated" - Recomended from Autoliv development department. (I think that means they are explosive tensioned - MS?).
I put in a wooden dashboard and a leather interior.
If you want to see your car here or have any photos of Marcos (or related cars) send them to me.
2003's first Car Of the Month was this shot of Richard Ward and his Mantula Spyder at Castle Combe.
February's CotM was Herman Buurman's Euro GT series LM600, pictured ahead of a couple of Mantis in the Euro GT series in 2002.
Martin Scott's LM400, seen prepared the EuroCannonball event, was March's CotM.
Cazzer's LM500 spyder, seen at a Tatton Park show, was April's CotM.
May's Car of the Month was Jac Myer's beautiful 1800.
June's Car of the Month was Sue and Andy's smart little Mini Marcos, spotted at Castle Combe.
July's Car of the Month was the Marcos TS500 on display at the London Motor Expo
January 2002's car was Victor Foster's 1970 3 litre Ford.
February's car was Lyn Mills' 3litre volvo powered 1971 coupe at the Bexhill 100 in 2001. Not the most detailed shot I've ever had on this site, but perhaps one that best sums up the spirit of the Marcos GT!
The March Car of the Month was Paul Plowman's recent acquisition. This 3 litre V6 is, probably, unique in that it has a stainless steel chassis, courtesy of a previous owner whose career was welding stainless steel.
The April Car of the Month was actually 4 US domiciled cars. Pictured for a British Car Magazine shoot (Magazine out on May 14, my birthday!), the cars are Mike Denman's (red, 1966 Marcos 1800), Mark Petrinovich's (yellow with maroon accents, 1971 Volvo 3
litre), Stephan Spalding's (all yellow, 1971 2.5 Triumph 6 cylinder) and Don Lattimer's (blue, 1971 3 liter Ford Essex V6).
May's Car of the Month was Michael Crews' absolutely FANTASTIC shot of the LM600 in the Daytona paddock this year. This is just one of hundreds of shots Michael sent me and many more can be seen on the Marcos Maniacs website.
I snapped Richard Porter's Mini Jem on the Brooklands Test hill for the June Car of the Month.
Paul Huberty's composite shot of the LM600 which ran in the Spa 24 Hours was July's Car Of The Month.
August's Car Of The Month was this shot from Gary Harman, taken at Castle Combe showing members cars.There were loads of fantastic cars at the CMI rally and these are just a few.
September 2002's Car Of The Month was Don Lattimer's great shot of the Mantis XP.
October's Car of the Month was an update on Nico Baas' Triumph 2.5 litre based LM500 project.
November's Car of the Month was Norman Vigers' (Normski), much modified Mantula.
2002's last Car Of the Month was Phil Smith's early V8.
First car of 2001 was this car, sent to me from the Nico Baas Triumphcentre in Holland. In the midst of conversion from a Triumph engined 2.5 coupe to a 'LM500 lookalike'.
February 2001's car of the month was Dan Schaal's shot of the Azlan Marcos LM600 on the grid at Spa
March's car of the month was Jamie Therien's racing Marcos at Mosport
April's car was this shot from the 2000 Swedish club meet at Sviestad track in link�ping, taken by Thomas Baardseth and sent to me by Johan Lundberg, who said "A super event by any standard We seriously humilated
some cobra owners on track."
May's was Alastair Munro's shot of one of the MRI LM600 Evos at Silverstone recently.
June 2001's CoM was Mike Denman's Volvo 1800 engined car on the track at Thunderhills in Northern California.
July 2001's CoM was this shot of Charlie Butler-Henderson's Mantis racer leaping Dingle Dell on the Brands Hatch GP circuit.
August's CoM was Paul Weidner's 1984 Mantula.
September's was Andy Behr's LM500 spyder - For sale at the time, but this picture was just too good to use just on the classified ads page!
October's CoM was this great shot of one of the NCK LM600s being manhandled around the Oulton Park paddock. This is just one of a number of great shots from David Hutson.
November's CoM was this historic shot of a very early gullwing at a race meeting. This shot was sent to me by Jonathon Cowley, who has many more similar images at http://www.autoinprint.com/
2001's last CoM was Mike Williamson's Mantula - Lovely photo of a great looking car.
2000's first Car Of The Month is this fantasy shot actually from Dan Schaal from Luxembourg (not Juan Pedro Adrados, he's got some shots on my sportscar racing page!). He says he'd like to see this scene, of 3 LM600s leading a FIA GT race. Wouldn't we all! Who knows, maybe 2000 will be the year. Clever shot!
Paul Huberty's lovely shot of his car on a touring holiday in Scotland - a long way from his Luxembourg home -was February's Car Of The Month.
March 2000's car was John Yardley's Mantula prepared for sprinting.
April 2000's car was the Top Gear Mantis GT roadtest montage
May's was this shot of a Costin Amigo, Frank Costin's 70's car, very much in the mould of his early Marcos with great aerodynamics. With a vauxhall 1800 engine, (and wooden chassis) this car reached 125 mph and 60 in around 7.5 seconds!
This rather nice shot of Chris Bell's Mantara Spyder was June 2000's Car Of The Month.
July 2000's car was US Register leading light Tad Todd's 3 Litre.
August 2000's car was this shot of Johan Lundberg's rare (1 of 11) Triumph 2.5 Litre.
September 2000's car was a shot of three of the US Register's members cars. - Red car nearest the camera 1800 GT...Mike Denman,Yellow car with burgundy accents 3 Liter... Mark Petrinovich and White car 3 liter... Steve Frey.
This lovely Mantula Spyder caught my eye at the 2000 Club rally at Donnington. It belongs to Charles Kilby and was October 2000's car of the month.
November's Car Of the Month was this lovely Ford 3 litre coupe, owned by Bob Hughes, who had recently restored the car. The car started as a V6, but is now powered by a Pinto 2 litre.
Final car of the month for 2000 was this shot of the BRDC GT winning LM600 Mantara Evo of Calum Lockie and Cor Euser - Photo courtesy of www.marcoscars.com.
The first Car Of The Month of 1999 was Brian Overy' awesome Supercharged Mantis.
February 1999's Car Of The Month wasClaus Geitner-Andersen's car from Denmark. A car with a mysterious background, starting life as a wooden chassised 1600 and now being a steel chassised, V8 Spyder!
April 1999's Car Of The Month was one of Peter Hill's Martina kits pictured nearing completion.
May 1999's Car Of The Month was Bryce Tate's shot of Cor's car in action at the 1998 Petit Le Mans event in the US.
June 1999's Car Of The Month was of 3 Marcii in a dealer taken some time in 1997, I believe. If you took this picture, thanks and drop me another e-mail and I'll give you your deserved credit!
July 1999's Car Of The Month was Mark Griffin's Martina - He's about to get new alloy wheels and a respray, so watch for it reappearing as a future Car Of The Month in it's rejuvenated form!
August 1999's Car Of The Month was the Rome based Marcos of Manuel Sono - Sans front bumper, which he was trying to source at the time.
September 1999's Car Of The Month was Roger Gagne's restored Volvo 3 litre.
October 1999's Car of the Month was Ron Macleod's Mantis, at the Brits in the park in Lindsay, Ontario.
December 1999's two Cars Of The Month (in the absence of a November one!) were this shot of the Azlan backed LM600 at Silverstone in October 1999 and this photo of a Costin Amigo replica, currently being developed for production.
January 1998's car of the month was an LM500 from Marcos' own press releases.
Car of the month 2 for 1998 was this 1971 3 litre V6, which actually changed hands through this website'sclassifed ads as it was Car Of The Month!
March 1998's Car Of The Month was the original LM500. This car was shown at the Earls Court Motorshow in 1993 and it raced, in a fairly similar form, for the 1994 season, before being replaced by the LM600 as the official Marcos racer.
April 1998's Car Of The Month was CLE 100H on the circuit at a Classic Car action day at Castle Combe.
May 1998's Car Of The Month was Tryggve Bengtson's great looking 3 litre Ford.
June 1998's Car Of The Month was Len Drake's good looking Volvo 3 litre engined coupe. Yellow is a popular colour for Marcos cars and this is a good example of why. Len's looking for some genuine Marcos alloys for the car, if anyone has some - more details on the wanted ads page.
July 1998's Car of the Month was Carl Mellissa's coupe.
August (& September) 1998's Car Of The Month was Chris Tubbs' Mantara Spyder.
October 1998's Car Of The Month was Dave Beattie's GTS spyder.
November 1998's Car Of The Month was a shot of Cor Euser's LM600 in action at Laguna Seca in the final GT race of the season.
Take a peak at Car of the Month 1 (-> April 1997)- Gerald Bagwell's Marcos.
Car of the Month 2 (May/June 1997) was Mark Beaumont's Mantula Spyder.
Third Car of The Month (July 1997) was Ray Green's racing Volvo 3 litre in action. Visit his page (link on the links page) for more racing action from New Zealand.
Fourth Car of The Month (August to September) was JZ Spilsbury's rare 1972 1600, with the 3 litre body and a 3 litre bonnet without the normal bulge to accomodate the V6.
October's Car Of The Month was Cynthia Gibling's Martina Spyder.
