Marcos Maniacs

Larry:
I'm in Calgary, Alberta.
As a note: at one point in the the early 80's I was in discussions with Jem 
Marsh (Marcos) to sell Marcos Cars here, but the econonmics just didn't pan 
out. (82 was the oil crash here)

Dwayne
3V5549

Quoting larry meadows <lmeadowsw@...>:

> Dwayne,
> Where are you located?
> I have a 1970 3l Marcos # 3V5536 that I have owned sense 1972. I too, have a
> running record of most of the differences on my car.
> Larry
> 3V5536
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Dwayne Grant <dcgrant@...>
> To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:55:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
> 
> 
> Roger:
> I find this very interesting being that there seems to be so many variations
> of differnt parts with a lot of the Marcos Cars from that era.
> \ufffd
> In a letter I have from Jem Marsh dated August 13th, 1979, when I was getting
> my replacement front & rear screens along with some other misc replacement
> parts,\ufffdhe\ufffdlisted and priced\ufffdthe front\ufffdwindshield denoting that it was per
> American Standards priced then at\ufffdL175.00\ufffdand the rear screen\ufffdas the
> plexiglass priced at L45.00.\ufffd At that time it also noted that the glass rear
> screen was available, but from at that time only from the\ufffdMarcos Owners
> Club.
> 
> Anyways, just some\ufffdtrivia from all my records and files\ufffdI have accumulated on
> my car that I have been the proud owner of since 1973.
> \ufffd
> Regards
> Dwayne
> 3V5549\ufffd
> \ufffd
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Roger 
> To: MarcosManiacs@ yahoogroups. com 
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:52 PM
> Subject: RE: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
> 
> Well Dwayne, all I know is that when I was talking to Gem Marsh when the
> straight 6 Volvo version first came out he told me that they had to get glass
> rear screens\ufffd to comply with US regulations.
> Maybe they only had one batch made and after the first car passed whatever
> test was needed; then when they ran out of glass ones they went back to the
> plastic ones which must have been a lot cheaper.
> Roger A
> From:MarcosManiacs@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:MarcosMania cs@yahoogroups. com]
> On Behalf Of dcgrant@istar. ca
> Sent: 13 November 2008 14:56
> To: MarcosManiacs@ yahoogroups. com; martin
> Subject: Re: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
> The regs were different back then. Mine is a 70 3 ltr Volvo LHD originally a
> 
> USA imported into the state of NY before being exported to Edmonton AB,
> Canada 
> and it had the original plexiglass rear screen. When I last replaced it many
> 
> years ago when Marcos was still alive, the replacement from Marcos was a 
> plexiglass unit. The front replacement screen was a Heated laminated glass 
> windshield.
> 
> Regards
> Dwayne
> 
> Quoting martin <martin-bull@ blueyonder. co.uk>:
> 
> > my glass rear screen is laminated
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Roger 
> > To: MarcosManiacs@ yahoogroupscom 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:20 PM
> > Subject: RE: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > For sure the new rear screen will not be plain glass that could break into
> > shards. I believe all 3 litre Volvo powered cars that went to the USA had
> > glass rear screens. I don't think the regulations here in USA allowed them
> > to be imported with plastic rear screens.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > All the front screens I have ever bought were laminated glass not
> > toughened. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Making a metal former to produce a rear window sounds like hard work! We
> > usually make the former from GRP by laying up inside an old screen. It
> > really needs to be larger than the finished screen but that is not
> difficult
> > as the extra inch or so does not need to be so accurate. Just extend the
> old
> > screen with some strips of wax bought from your GRP supplier.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It is far simpler to take the former to somewhere that makes
> > Perspex/Plexiglass screens in volume. They will have an oven to heat the
> > sheet evenly and then it virtually just needs dropping over the former as
> the
> > bends are not that tight. The former should be temporarily covered with a
> > piece of baize (same as billiard table skins). They will have this. As
> they
> > buy the Perspex/Plexiglass in volume usually it is cheaper to have them do
> > the whole job than it is to buy a sheet of material. Trying to bend it
> with
> > a heat gun sounds like a recipe for a wasted sheet of material unless you
> are
> > very lucky!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Roger Andreason
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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