Marcos Maniacs

On 27 Apr 2005 pauldransfield@... wrote:

> The distinction I was alluding to was that even if both groups belong
> to the same 'club' (notice I said groups), it would not be
> appropriate for members of one to represent the other. I've been a
> member of the Marcos Owners Club for 30 years, long before they
> embraced Mini Marcos members, but I would never presume to speak on
> behalf of the Mini Marcos, just as I would hope Mini Marcos owners
> would not presume to speak on behalf of the coupe owners. The only
> active Marcos affiliations I'm aware of in North America are the
> Marcos Maniacs and the British based Marcos Owners Club.

The Marcos Owners Club did for a while have a Mini Marcos section. This
then split off as an independant club for a number of reasons, not
least because the requirements of the two sets of owners are rather
different. Minis and big Marcoses are somewhat different in character
and cost, but have a lot in common. Even though there might be the odd
bit of friction here and there we get on well together at the local
level. We have an active Thames Valley Marcos group which meets once a
month and attracts members of MOC, CMI and MMOC. I'll be going along to
the Brighton Classic Car Show in June courtesy of the South-East group
of MOC.

On the other hand we tend not to get invited to national rallies
because the coupé owners don't like getting thrashed by Mini Marcoses
around twisty sprint circuits such as Curborough ;-)

Richard

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Richard Porter           M I N I   M A R C O S   O W N E R S   C L U B
ricp@minimarcos.org.uk   MINI JEM * KINGFISHER  SPRINT * MINI SPECIALS
                                 http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/