Marcos Maniacs

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of an owners manual for a 
1969 Marcos GT?  I'm still mulling over the idea of purchasing the 
green car from Wire Wheel in FL., and I would appreciate as much 
documentation as possible.  Looking forward to meeting you all soon
(hopefully in my Marcos).

Thanks
Chris James
Phila., PA
???1969 Marcos GT???

Hi Chris,
I don't think an Owners manual, or any manual, ever existed.  One of 
the British clubs has been promishing a Manual for years (don't hold 
your breath) Don Lattimer (on this list) has a build manual for a 1971 
I believe.... I'm not sure exactly what it has in it.  The lack of a 
Marcos manual isn't a huge problem.  The cars are fairly straight 
forward and fairly easy to work on.  Since most of the various 
components came from other cars you can obtain manuals for those cars 
and compile a "Marcos Manual".  So you would want, for example, a 
Triumph GT6 manual for the front suspension, a Ford Cortina manual for 
the rear suspension etc.  In addition, there is a lot of information 
available from various sources (like this one) that you can "tap" 
into.  With out promishing too much, I can say there are a couple of 
us that are working on gathering a lot of the information that is 
available and making it available to anyone who wants it. One of the 
nice things about the internet is it allows owners of obscure cars to 
become a "local" community to solve problems and talk cars. I think 
Don Lattimer was right when he said (on this list) that owning the 
Marcos has been the most fun he has ever had owning a sportscar. When 
I drive mine I never fail to get a lot of positive compliments (some 
shouted from moving cars with people hanging out windows!)  Leave your 
car and when you come back you can expect to see a crowd around it. 
People of all sizes, shapes, colors and ages seem to like it.  It 
truely has universal appeal.  Of course, you could spend 10 times as 
much on a Porsche and be one of a hundred owners on your block and 
never be noticed....
Mike Denman
1966 Marcos 1800
Chassis # 4079--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., cjames8573@m... wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can get a copy of an owners manual for a 
> 1969 Marcos GT?  I'm still mulling over the idea of purchasing the 
> green car from Wire Wheel in FL., and I would appreciate as much 
> documentation as possible.  Looking forward to meeting you all soon
> (hopefully in my Marcos).
> 
> Thanks
> Chris James
> Phila., PA
> ???1969 Marcos GT???

Chris

I have the build manual for the Mantula, 3 Litre, 2 Litre, and 1600.  
It's all one manual about 24 pages long with schematics, wiring loom 
diagrams, assembly instructions, etc.  Really interesting but not 
quite an "owner's manual".  Also I have a "Servicing and Data" book 
on the 3 Litre V6 from 1969.  It just gives servicing data and the 
mileage intervals for service.  It's about 11 pages long.

On Mark Saxby's site (under "bookmarks") read "Running a V6".  It's 
on the lower left side of his home page.  That was the most 
informative to me before I purchased mine.

Good luck, hope you get one soon!
Don Lattimer

'71 Marcos #3M5759
Willits, CA

> Does anyone know where I can get a copy of an owners manual for a 
> 1969 Marcos GT?  
> Thanks
> Chris James
> Phila., PA
> ???1969 Marcos GT???