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If It's Small and British It's Gotta Be Fun

Filed in archive British Cars by Philip Powell on September 09, 2007

68 Marcos GT

It's not often that an unusual car drives into the parking lot at my condominium complex, so when a Lotus Seven suddenly appeared last week I couldn't resist chatting with the driver. Turns out that John Carroll owns a stable of little-known British sports cars (if you can call three cars a stable, but what the heck, I was impressed) which he enjoys modifying for his own pleasure. John invited me to his home for a look, and after a brief but entertaining ride on scenic, twisty narrow roads that I didn't know existed around here I found myself pulling up behind a 1961 Mark 2 Jaguar sedan. Not a sports car, obviously, but an elegant ride that John's working on whenever he gets a moment.

Then he proudly pulled the wraps off his 1968 Marcos, which he bought in a thrashed state eight years ago. Amazingly, he'd tried to negotiate the purchase of a Marcos back in '68 but couldn't find enough cash for the deal. Nevertheless John kept a record of the chassis and build numbers and lo-and-behold, those on this one matched. So he finally had his dream car and along with it a need for extensive restoration and modifications. The Marcos GT, which had a wooden chassis and adjustable pedals is, as John unhesitatingly states, rather crude in some respects. Yet it is fast, corners like a snake on a leash, and is so low (the photo doesn't reveal this) that just crawling in must be a gymnastic feat. I'll have more on John Carroll's cars in upcoming blogs.

[Photo: Philip Powell]


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