Marcos Maniacs

Hey Paul,
         Don't forget about me I am only about an hour away from all
3 of you guys.... just south of Guelph .........Paul you are correct 
about the steering linkage I had to remove it on my car to replace the 
spherical(self aligning) rod ends........cleaning off the shafts and 
spraying a bit of WD-40 will add in sliding the shafts thru the rod
ends.
        Cheers Dave #5577








--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., pauldransfield@i... wrote:
> Michael,
>  
> The Marcos Owners Club has a standing policy that they will not 
provide any
> lists of members' names and addresses. They would probably let us 
know how
> many current members are from the US and Canada, and they would 
probably
> publish an ad asking North American members contact Marcos Maniacs. 
Dave
> McCubbin is correct regarding the number of cars originally sent to 
the US
> and Canada but there are others not on the original list, mine 
included. 
>  
> At one time I knew of 8 other coupes in the Toronto area alone but 
I've lost
> touch with a lot of them. One, Owned by Duncan Day, moved out to 
British
> Columbia and another owned by Ted McGregor moved to Alberta, but I
> understand he's now living in Ottawa. One has been sitting for quite 
a few
> years now with a crushed roof following a garage roof collapse. 
There's one
> in Sudbury, Ontario, which is a few hours away. There is one in 
Oakville
> (not including Dave's gullwing and Ron's Mantis) and one in Markham, 
both
> quite close to Toronto. These two owners are friends who do a lot of 
racing,
> though I don't think they're racing the Marcoses, and they prefer to 
go
> racing on the weekend rather than attend local car shows. There was 
a green
> one in Kitchener, about 1 1/2 hours away, but it was offered for 
sale a few
> years ago and I haven't a clue what happened to it. And finally 
there was a
> bastardised grey 3 litre Volvo in Toronto with a very low ratio rear 
diff
> and Lotus shocks. The owner was a bit of a cowboy (with apologies to 
any
> real cowboys among you) and not an enthusiast like the rest of us, 
and he
> seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.
>  
> So, including Dave, Ron and me, there are/were 11 in this area that 
I know
> of but only the three of us are known to the rest of you.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Paul Dransfield
> 3 litre Volvo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mikeyrog@a... [mailto:mikeyrog@a...]
> Sent: May 25, 2002 10:26 PM
> To: MarcosManiacs@y...
> Subject: Re: [MarcosManiacs] Marcos article in British Car Magazine
> 
> 
> David, 
> 
> I did not realize that that many were in Canada.  I had heard about 
ten
> years ago that quite a number had made it to the US and Canada but 
no one
> had an idea of how many.  My car was shipped over by the original 
owner from
> Africa so it certainly would have never been on anyone's list.  I am 
sure
> there are many others as well.  The Marco Owners Club did keep lists 
of its
> members but were very reluctant to just give out a complete list.  I 
was a
> member for many years and only dropped my subsciption after three
> unsuccessful attempts to send cashiers checks for the yearly dues.  
Maybe we
> can try contacting the MOC publisher and see if the archives are 
still
> available to try and compile a more comprehensive list of the North 
American
> owners.  I do have an old list with around 21 owners from about 10 
years ago
> but it does not have the chassis numbers so it would be difficult to 
cross
> reference it with todays owners. 
> 
> Michael Rogers 
> 1969 1600GT # 5241 
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