Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) The one car that influenced me more than another

Between 1966 and 1969 I was a student at Manchester College of Art situated in All Saints Square on Oxford Road. One day I set off to walk into town. Across the road I spotted an amazing blue car parked outside Junky Clark's shop (yes, a junk shop). It was a Marcos coupe and looked just stunning and so different for that period. Some evenings when returning on the bus to my shared flat in Fallowfield I would see another one - yellow this time. As it passed the bus I got a great view from the upstairs window of the long bonnet, sloping back and cam tail - I just loved it but never dreamt I could own one.
A few years later my then wife and I were on our way to a wedding but had to make a stop in Buxton to get confetti. As I stepped on to a Zebra crossing a red Marcos made a hasty stop to allow me to cross. After the ceremony and at the reception venue we were seated at a table with a young GP and his girlfriend - turned out he owned the Marcos AND he was selling it. He said it was not very good for his back when doing his rounds and getting in and out from such a low car was a bit too much. Of course, after selling our Escort and somehow managing to find the extra money, we bought it. It had a broken rear window (an up and over garage door had fallen on it) and one of the brake pad retaining pins was missing - and a few other things including an interior full of different coloured pills dropped and not retrieved.
It stayed with me for over 30 years and when a house move was planned, it was sold to Rory MacMath of Marcos Heritage. He did a restoration and sold it to a chap who came over from Lithuania and drove it back there. The picture is Rory taking it away on the last day of my ownership.