Marcos Cars

Marcos Cars was founded in nineteen fifty nine byseventies.
Frank Costin and Jem Marsh. The sports carJem Marsh brought back the sports car marque a
manufacture was based in the Bedfordshire town ofdecade later, in nineteen eighty one, after purchasing
Luton, thirty or so miles north of London. Frank Costinthe rights to the Marcos brand. The resurrection of the
had worked on the British combat aircraft, the dename began with the launch of the kit car, the Marcos
Havilland Mosquito. Working on the versatile SecondV6 Coupe. The business this time lasted until the turn
World War aircraft gave Costin the idea of using theof the millennium. Marcos Cars went bankrupt, to be
strong engineered wood Plywood for the chassis oflater 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 movedand two.
into converted premises within the historic WiltshireThe road vehicles were now produced in
town Bradford-on-Avon which was well known for itsWarwickshire, in the West Midlands of England and
strong woolen textile industry in the seventeenthnorth of their previous bases. The racing cars were
century. The company moved south to the town ofnow manufactured in the Netherlands. In late two
Westbury, still in Wiltshire, in nineteen seventy one. Thisthousand seven the company announced it would be
move and various other problems within the businessgoing into liquidation.
finally lead to the collapse of the business in the early