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Light, strong, and very, very capable. Cramped and impractical. The Mini-Marcos GT was one of many Mini-based sports cars, which proliferated during the early 1960s. It was one of the better regarded models, though, combining a lightweight low-drag fibreglass monocoque with the front-wheel-drive car’s drivetrain and suspension to produce one ...
Mar 18, 2019 · This particular GT, being a later 1971 model, was one of 200 or so to feature a factory steel chassis and Ford’s 3.0-liter Essex V-6. While a 155 horsepower engine might not sound like a lot, it sure goes like stink when it’s only pushing 1700 pounds. Its owner, Frazer Douglas, purchased this sports car after years of driving everything ...
Mar 18, 2019 · A Marcos GT Will Always Turn Heads Born in 1964, this rare British wonder was designed to be superb on a race track and outrageous on the street. By Máté Petrány Published: Mar 18, 2019
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- Marcos Cars: Wooden Wonders
- In The Beginning: Jem Marsh and Frank Costin
- Marcos Cars
- Dizzy and The Dart
- The Mini Marcos Mark I Goes Into Production, and to Le Mans
- The Mini Marcos Mark II and Mark III
- Financial Collapse and The Birth of The Mark IV
- The Mini Marcos Gets The Midas Touch
- The Mini Marcos Is Born Again Twice: The Mark V and Mark Vi
- Epilogue
In the wake of the Second World War, as Britain worked her way through austerity and the process of rebuilding what had been destroyed or damaged by the not at all gentle ministrations of the Luftwaffe, a number of new small production car companies sprang up. Of these Lotus Cars is perhaps of the best known, but there were a number of others that ...
The founders of Marcos Cars, who would go on to create a range of imaginative sports cars including the Mini Marcos, were Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. The name Marcos was simply the blending of the first syllables of each of their names – Marsh and Costin. Not only was Marcos Cars a blending of names, but it was to be a blending of the adventurous s...
Jem Marsh and Frank Costin together formed Marcos Cars in 1959. The company’s first model was the “Ugly Duckling” Marcos Xylon, which was redesigned to become the much prettier Marcos Luton Gullwing, so named because it had gullwing doors. The Luton’s sibling was the Spyder and after it came the first version of the Marcos GT, which would become th...
The BMC Mini, on which the Mini Marcos was based, was first introduced the same year that Marsh and Costin formed Marcos Cars, 1959. Made to replace the plethora of three wheeled “bubble cars” that had become popular in Britain in the post-war 1950’s it was small, lightweight, and quickly proved to have excellent handling and the potential to becom...
Jem Marsh’s idea for a Mini Marcos “GT” was somewhat different to that originally created by Dizzy Addicott. Jem Marsh and his team at Marcos created a fibreglass monocoque body shell that completely replaced the steel BMC Mini one. The team included Brian Moulton who did the design work along with Malcolm Newell who was the pattern maker. The Mini...
In 1967 Jem Marsh and his team decided to refine the original Mini Marcos design. The style changes for the Mark II included semi-circular wheel arches to replace the notched style of the Mark I, a recessed fuel filler, and a slightly larger front license plate panel. The main disadvantage of the original Mark I and Mark II Mini Marcos for use as a...
The Mini Marcos was not Marcos’ only model, the two seater Marcos GT was the flagship car and Marcos wanted to compliment that with a new four seater sports car. The new Marcos Mantis was built around a square tube frame with a fibreglass body and was powered by a Triumph 2.5 PI inline six cylinder engine with Lucas mechanical fuel injection. The n...
In 1975 an agreement was made between Marcos Limited and D & H Fibreglass Techniques for D & H to manufacture the Mini Marcos, and initially they continued production of the Mark IV. It would be the Mini Marcos Mark IV that would prove to be an unbeatable speed record setting machine. 1977 saw the creation of the TransXL International Mini Marcos M...
By 1991 the Mini Marcos was revised into the Mark V version which boasted nothing less than an optional elm or walnut dashboard to make your Mini Marcos just as stylish as a Jaguar or Aston Martin, well, sort of. The Mark V boasted 13″ wheels and a wider track along with the wind-up windows an optional sun-roof and even air-conditioning. Not only w...
So it is that the Mini Marcos has proved to be too good an idea to die an ignominious death and instead it just keeps on keeping on. This little kit car that made its debut back in 1965 with a convincing victory on a very soggy race track is still capable of delivering hair raising excitement and a driving experience second to none. This is a car t...
Jun 4, 2017 · Mini Marcos road test. Tracing its lineage back to Dizzy Addicott’s famous DART, the Marcos spearheaded a raft of racing specials based on the Mini, but lighter still. Thanks to Issigonis hanging pretty much everything off a couple of subframes, you can simply take all those mechanicals and transfer them into a lightweight shell.
1300. This vehicle has a 2 door coupé type body with a front located engine powering the front wheels. The 1.3 litre engine is a naturally aspirated, overhead valve, 4 cylinder that develops 76 bhp (77 PS/57 kW) of power at 6000 rpm. The Marcos 1300 GT Mini Marcos weighs a claimed 483 kg at the kerb. Its maximum speed stated is 209 km/h, which ...
