Marcos Maniacs

Sorry to hear about the condition. If you want to chat about the rebuild 
options, give me a call. I have made some changes to mine in the rebuild 
process and am about to start on the second one.

Tel. 425 442 1851

Garry Diver


>From: "marcos1600" <SIA@...>
>Reply-To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
>To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Got my 1600GT home, not encouraged so far.....
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:41:45 -0000
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>Got it home, not encouraged so far.
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>Definitely has some rot, but I will not be able to asses it properly until 
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>Doors do not close and align properly, which I expect is a bad sign.
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>Plexi is all murky, windshield is scrap, some crazing in the body gel-coat.
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>Appears to have been painted with a spray can, covering old bonnet damage.
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>This car clearly never had any special attention lavished on it, the 
>$25,000 figure the wife
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>gave me must have been her dream!
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>The wheels may clean up OK, they are genuine magnesium Mini-lite.
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>The Maaazzzzdaaaa engine is mounted WAY too far forward, and is clearly far 
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>Car was running when parked, I suspect that the weight balance was so 
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>just became too twitchy to keep driving.
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>First order of business will be "Before" pics and hosing off the loose 
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>Then a complete assessment of just what I have done to myself, so far it 
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>may be a several years getting this one back on the road.
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>The '77 Alfa Spyder I bought for the engine and trans (Whole car $500!) may 
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>become my daily summer driver until the Marcos is MUCH further along.
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