Marcos Maniacs

Here is an email I received from Rick Harding in Alaska.  
Congratulations Rick !!

Hello Fellow Marcos Maniacs,

A few weekends ago I entered my 1969 3 Liter V-6, Wooden Chassis 
Marcos in
the Big Alaska Car Show down at the Park Strip with 286 cars in 
attendance.
Well this year, Dennis Gage with "My Classic Car" from the Speed 
Channel on
TV, brought his film crew up to Alaska to do a segment on 4 cars 
from this
Alaska show. This was a huge thing for the Alaska specialty car 
scene and as
it turns out, for Marcos' as well. Dennis is a BIG fan!!
When I pulled onto the park strip with my Marcos I heard a voice 
yelling out
"STOP". I looked over and there was Dennis Gage running up to my car 
with
his eyes as big as his handle bar mustache yelling, "A Marcos in 
Alaska, I
can't believe it, where are you going to park, and you are going to 
be my
first interview". He could barley catch his breath. Dennis travels 
all over
world doing car shows and he had only seen 2 Marcos' up close and 
one more
in a magazine. Dennis has always liked the unusual and rare stuff, 
so went
absolutely nuts over the Marcos. He and his film crew did an hour of 
filming
the car and interviewing me about it including where I found it, how 
long I
had owned it, and what I had to do to it to get it to this 
condition. We had
a great time for about an hour and a half talking cars, motorcycles, 
and
fast boats. 
Once he finished up with the Marcos and went on to shoot the other 
choices
he had made, George Blumberg from Auto Week walked up to me and 
asked if he
could also interview me for his magazine. What a day! Then during 
the awards
ceremony, Dennis Gage voted my Marcos "Best Of Show" so I will have 
a place
on the show trophy forever and next year's t-shits that they sell at 
the car
show will have my Marcos on the front of it as well! This is the 
first time
a sports car has ever won this show as it is all about street rods 
and hot
rods. The folks that belong to the Midnight Sun Street Rod 
Association, that
puts on this show, were a bit put off by my win which is good for 
them! The
show on "My Classic Car" will air during their 2008 season which 
begins in
February. I will send out another email to announce that date when I 
receive
it from them.
With all the people that watch "My Classic Car", a bunch more of 
them will
soon know what a Marcos is.

Take care,

Rick Harding
#5418