Is this a vee-dub???

TheMiniMan Insano Dub Head

849 posts · joined Aug 2006 · 2 Jul 2009, 10:43 pm

#721947

Ha ha,,, i tricked you all into looking,,, it`s actually a mini based car called a "Marcos GT"

:-)

sorry,,, i`ll leave now

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Jul 2009, 11:14 pm

#721955

TheMiniMan wrote:
Ha ha,,, i tricked you all into looking,,, it`s actually a mini based car called a "Marcos GT"

:-)

sorry,,, i`ll leave now

back about 1968 a fellow owned one of these
He came from Gloucester [where i lived at the time]
I think He lived in Newcastle or Sydney....

I'm not sure if the front was like that...
maybe thats a later model...

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

LUFTMEISTER Veteran Volks Folk

2,041 posts · joined Jul 2005 · 3 Jul 2009, 6:11 am

#721968

it looks like a Ferrari but not 😏

Customer service is not dead in Australia.

Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools

greedy53 Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,062 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 3 Jul 2009, 7:49 am

#721979

i can remember these i think they were a pommy kit and not many were used in aust early 60's look great
is that a volvo in the background the p series

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shaihulud Custom Title Time!

1,448 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 3 Jul 2009, 7:56 am

#721983

If memory serves me well, I think that someone in Australia did something similar.

I think it was called a Broadspeed.

Is that so?

kombikim disfunctionally capable

1,521 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 3 Jul 2009, 10:30 am

#722005

yes/no Broadspeed was English but also made in Australia by Brian Foley, basically a Mini Fastback with a fibreglass roof rather than a complete rework like the Mini Marcos.
there was also the Mini Monaco built by Bill Buckle, again the major change being a rework of the roof

Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 3 Jul 2009, 10:40 am

#722010

Looks like a mini marcos to me.

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 3 Jul 2009, 11:38 am

#722019

Hmmmm.................eye of the beholder me thinks

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 3 Jul 2009, 11:52 am

#722022

Got to admit - the old Bill Buckle really had his hand in motoring

these minis
Goggomobils
midget stock car racing

Any thing else he got up to??

Futue te ipsum!!!

djnee Officially Full-On Dubber

341 posts · joined Mar 2009 · 3 Jul 2009, 12:32 pm

#722024

Ha ha,,, i tricked you all into looking

Grr, you scallywag... *shakes fist*

😂

It May Never End

grumble Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 4 Jul 2009, 6:54 pm

#722258

One of my customers who has a swag of mini's has a Buckle being rebuilt at the moment ,the body is finished and he is starting to reassemble it.You are right about Bill Buckle though he was way ahead of his time.

sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 10 Jul 2009, 4:07 pm

#723312

SWEEEEEEEET.

And did that used to be a Volvo 1800PE in the background of the first two shots?

A POSSE AD ESSE.

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remm340912 Officially Full-On Dubber

204 posts · joined Jan 2007 · 10 Jul 2009, 4:24 pm

#723314

its weird looking yet somehow it works well. Never seen any of them in oz!

TheMiniMan Insano Dub Head

849 posts · joined Aug 2006 · 10 Jul 2009, 10:53 pm

#723408

68autobug,,, if , by chance< you can find that fella who you think may have had a Marcos, could you see if you can find him again? I`d be very keen to talk with him,,, there was only meant to be 2x of these brought into the country & sold under licence from Marco , through a company called "Competiton cars" in sydney,,, if , maybe,,, hope to be, the guy ho owned ours before we got it, then i`d dearly love to get a copy of the old rego papers , or at least chase the rego number

Hey Grumble,,, if you could swing your mate with the Buckle Monaco my ph number (or ask him for his) i`m keen to hook up with him,,, i also have a buckle :-) .... & the black one with the gold stripes is owned by John Centrone, we hope to be able to get them all together (or at least find them all) one day :-)

& the green with the yellow stripe is actually called a "Jem" , very similar to the marcos but not the same.

thanks heaps for all your intrest guys,,, i know it`s not Vee-dub but maybe (for some strange reason) there might be a rerasonable outcome from posting it here
thanks heaps

Edit--> Oh & , as it happens,,, Bill Buckle was really good mates with my Grandad from "Speedy Welding in sydney,,, we have a very funny story of how the Monaco fastback mini actually came about :-)

& i personally think the Monaco has a much better line/shape than the Broadspeed

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 Jul 2009, 2:17 am

#723434

TheMiniMan wrote:68autobug,,, if , by chance< you can find that fella who you think may have had a Marcos,

That would be impossible...
but now I'm thinking He had a broadspeed..
that name comes to mind....
so I don't think it was a marcos at all... sorry...

cheers

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---