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 TheMiniMan
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| posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 PM |
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Is this a vee-dub???
Ha ha,,, i tricked you all into looking,,, it`s actually a mini based car called a "Marcos GT"
:-)
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| posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by TheMiniMan
Ha ha,,, i tricked you all into looking,,, it`s actually a mini based car called a "Marcos GT"
:-)
sorry,,, i`ll leave now
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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
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 06:11 AM |
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it looks like a Ferrari but not 
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 07:49 AM |
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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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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 07:56 AM |
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If memory serves me well, I think that someone in Australia did something similar.
I think it was called a Broadspeed.
Is that so?
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 AM |
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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
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 10:40 AM |
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Looks like a mini marcos to me.
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 AM |
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Hmmmm.................eye of the beholder me thinks
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Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 AM |
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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??
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| posted on July 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 PM |
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| Quote: | Ha ha,,, i tricked
you all into looking
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Grr, you scallywag... *shakes fist*
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| posted on July 4th, 2009 at 06:54 PM |
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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.
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| posted on July 10th, 2009 at 04:07 PM |
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SWEEEEEEEET.
And did that used to be a Volvo 1800PE in the background of the first two shots?
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| posted on July 10th, 2009 at 04:24 PM |
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its weird looking yet somehow it works well. Never seen any of them in oz!
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| posted on July 10th, 2009 at 10:53 PM |
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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
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| posted on July 11th, 2009 at 02:17 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by TheMiniMan
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
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