Originally Posted by Rovert
Originally Posted by Deejay
I think the wooden chassis was more applicable to the somewhat ugly (but very quick) Mini Marcos up until about 1969. The bigger Marcos as pictured had a steel space frame chassis of square section tubing with a variety of power plants over their relatively short production life.

As a bit of a Mini Marcos (and Mini Jem) geek, the MMs have always been Glass Fibre Monocogues.

The "big" Marcoses had wooden chassis from its initial introduction with the Volvo engine in 1964 Until 1969 when it was replaced with a steel one,
Thank you for that as I remembered when I was a lad going to a meeting at Snetterton and the commentator saying post shunt it will take while to clear the wood away. All news to me and before Clarkson was even born let alone dropping clangers..


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