Marcos Maniacs

Is this info still good?  Looking forward to the Marcos bering featured, coming up real soon now.
Regards,
Ray

--- On Sun, 2/10/08, Don Lattimer <donlattimer@...> wrote:

From: Don Lattimer <donlattimer@...>
Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Re: Our Alaskan TV star ! **UPDATE**
To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2008, 1:44 PM






Here's the latest from Rick:

Hello Don,

I hope this finds you well and enjoying some quite winter months. 

I finally found out when my Marcos will be shown on My Classic Car on 
the Speed Channel. It is set to air during the week of July 13th, 
2008 and then will be shown again during the week of January 11th, 
2009. It will be interesting to see how much of the 1-1/2 hours of 
interviewing Dennis Gage did with me, will wind up on the show and 
how much of it wound up on the cutting room floor. I look forward to 
seeing how they put it together. It could be my Marcos' 4 minutes of 
fameJ

Have you ever seen the article that might have gone into AutoWeek on 
my Marcos?

Also, I have been hunting for the Motorsport magazine that contains 
the 4 page article on Marcos' in the February issue but have had no 
luck tracking it down in Anchorage. Did you by any chance get a copy 
of that one and if so could you scan those pages and send them up to 
me?

I am still moving forward on this winters restoration of a 1973 
Norton 850 Commando Roadster and have it about 70% done. I found this 
one in a guys shed in 14 boxes and bought it for about 5 cents on the 
dollar. I restored a 1971 Norton Fastback LR two winters ago so have 
a great source for parts now. I hope to have this one completed 
before our big indoor motorcycle show in Anchorage this coming March 
but if not it will definitely be done in time for our next riding 
season.

Take good care,

Rick Harding

5418

--- In MarcosManiacs@ yahoogroups. com, "Don Lattimer" 
<donlattimer@ ...> wrote:
>
> 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
>