Marcos Maniacs

Hi Charley,

your questions as far as I know the Marcos History:

1. no air vents on original early bonnets, for race GTŽs they use very often a "long" bonnet and these have air vents.

2. Yes the de Dion used MG ring & pinions. The housings were not related, they are from TVR - very rare in the meantime - and Marcos did rubber down the letters, if you know this, you can normally see the shadows of the TVR letters. But they tried in this time a lot of different rear axles and diffs. and not every Marcos is or was build to standards, it looks that the factory sometimes did only use the parts they had in this moment.

3. ???

4. As far as I know, they still exist and are producing at least wooden chassis and the subframes. We have here in Germany a Marcos owner 4 months ago got the parts to renew his race car. Fiberglas donŽt know, but we have here around our "fiberglass guru" and in the Netherlands as well people with moulds producing lightweight bonnets for the race cars.

5. + 6. This should be answered by the US Marcos Owners.

Hi Mike,

very astonished what did tell us concerning the Fiberglas from Wooden Wonders. I only know people who bought chassisŽs - in total 4 different people - and they all were content concerning price and quality. DonŽt know a person buying fiberglas parts from WW.

One of the Swiss Marcos owners is a ingenieur and he is rebuilding his GT and made a new wooden chassis by himself and did digitalize every wooden piece and has now a complete drawing of the wooden GTŽs. His Marcos is a bit special, because the car had fitted as drivetrain the BMW 2002tii enginge & gearbox, so some smaller changes were made for this engine. Perhaps this drawings will help to rebuild the GT.

It will probably not help you a lot, but here in Germany we have 2 specialists for wooden Marcos, but will be probably too far away from where you are living. But both did rebuild wooden chassis and have a lot of experience with Marcos and fiberglas as well.

CF Mantula