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Hey...where's the MARCOS forum?...

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The company was founded in Luton, in Bedfordshire, England, in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. Frank Costin had earlier worked on the De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bombers and from there he got the idea to use plywood for the chassis. The company moved to a converted mill in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire in 1963 and in 1971 to a purpose built factory at nearby Westbury.

Problems with exporting cars to the USA and the move to the new premises led to financial troubles in the 1970s and by 1971 they were out of business. Jem Marsh however stayed in the auto business and in 1976 he bought back the rights to the Marcos name, and in 1981 the Marcos was relaunched with the Marcos V6 Coupe that was sold in kit form.

Marcos went out of business again in 2000, but thanks to a wealthy Canadian buying the company, is now producing cars again. The race car production is now located in The Netherlands while the road cars are now made in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

Just kidding...but got your attention!
 

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I'd love to have a Marcos forum but I suspect it would be difficult to get enough regular Marcos owners on here to make it possible (at least for now)
 
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Don Lattimer

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Basil,

I believe I'm the only Marcos owner on here. Could be wrong tho... Any others want to speak up?

I run the Marcos North American Registry and there are only about 80 cars that we are aware of.

Don
 

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]BTW here is a site I found last night
with GREAT pics on a restore[/QUOTE]

He didn't restore it - he rebuilt it!
 
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