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Marcos LM500
I thought I would post this as I found this thread by accident.
I am 99% sure this is one of the two original cars commisioned to run in the 1994 BRDC British GT Champoinship - it would have originally been in the Computacenter Blue and Silver livery. If so there is a 50% chance that this is the car that was built for me (Andy Purvis). I later bought the car from the factory in 1996 winning the GT3 category in it before running the car on behalf of privateer's.
Ironic that it is now in New Zealand as I emigratted to Sydney a few years ago!
The chassis number would tell me if it was my car. Either way as the original factory test driver, I drove and developed both cars. Only the factory cars had the straight cut racing gearboxes, and only two were built before we moved to the much more highly developed LM600s.
I have loads of history and Marcos provenance around the Factory LM500's including all the original press cuttings and launch photos from 1993 British Motorshow at Earls court if you are interested. If is my car it was also driven by Le Mans Legend Derk Bell at Castle Coombe as part of a feature for Autosport magazine.
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