| Marcos Cars was founded in nineteen fifty nine by | | | | seventies. |
| Frank Costin and Jem Marsh. The sports car | | | | Jem Marsh brought back the sports car marque a |
| manufacture was based in the Bedfordshire town of | | | | decade later, in nineteen eighty one, after purchasing |
| Luton, thirty or so miles north of London. Frank Costin | | | | the rights to the Marcos brand. The resurrection of the |
| had worked on the British combat aircraft, the de | | | | name began with the launch of the kit car, the Marcos |
| Havilland Mosquito. Working on the versatile Second | | | | V6 Coupe. The business this time lasted until the turn |
| World War aircraft gave Costin the idea of using the | | | | of the millennium. Marcos Cars went bankrupt, to be |
| strong engineered wood Plywood for the chassis of | | | | later saved by Tony Stelliga. The Marcos cars began |
| the Marcos cars. | | | | down the production line once again in two thousand |
| Four years after being founded Marcos Cars moved | | | | and two. |
| into converted premises within the historic Wiltshire | | | | The road vehicles were now produced in |
| town Bradford-on-Avon which was well known for its | | | | Warwickshire, in the West Midlands of England and |
| strong woolen textile industry in the seventeenth | | | | north of their previous bases. The racing cars were |
| century. The company moved south to the town of | | | | now manufactured in the Netherlands. In late two |
| Westbury, still in Wiltshire, in nineteen seventy one. This | | | | thousand seven the company announced it would be |
| move and various other problems within the business | | | | going into liquidation. |
| finally lead to the collapse of the business in the early | | | | |