Marcos LM600 roadcars

[GOT BOOST]

I found these pictures of a Marcos LM600 roadcar. I was wondering if anyone here knew anything about these cars? Are they a race to road conversion? How much power are they making? And how many of them are running aorund on the streets? As far as I knew, the LM600 was only ever made as a race car so someone has gone to gret lengths to convert it back to a street car.

Any information or more pictures would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Rowan.

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[Jack LM]

All these pictures are actually of the same car, the bottom being the most recent when it changed hands last. It is rumoured to be under restoration to reappear on the british roads soon.

There were very few LM600's made and this was the only one originally made for the road.

The chassis is the same as the LM400 & LM500 and all the moulds are available so it is possible to uprate one to an LM600. However, condidering that there were only 29 LM400/500 made for the road you may have more luck purchasing an LM500 racer or even a Mantis racer for conversion.

[GOT BOOST]

Thanks for the info, glad to hear it’s going to be restored. Its one of those amazing unique cars like the TVR Cerbera Speed 12 and the Lotus Elise GT1 (that have both recently been sold to private owners and restored) that belongs in the hands of an enthusiast.

Rowan.

[cazzer]

Sorry Jack yer wrong there mate.
The white one at the bottom is a different car.
The blue one is Cor Eusers and was the only official road car made.
The white one was knocked together quickly for Le-Mans homologation. It only has a chevy 350 in it.

It was recently sold and is being brought up to road car spec.
I think Cor still owns the blue one.

Still, 2 doesn't make it common eh?

Eurotech will build you one too if you pay em enough. Don't know if they'll build you a road going one though.

[DodgeyRog]

That makes 3, i saw the Blue one (2nd from top) at the factory back in 99, it was a customer order they thought about marketing as a rival to the TVR Speed 12, with a price tag of about £70-80k. If you look, it has the later style alloys that were fitted to the Mantis GT.

[Thumper]

I'm not convinced about there being three, although I'm happy to go along with two. It's the picture of the white one that confuses me, since I've not seen it before.

We put together one road car at the end of 1995, and that's the blue one with the registration M206FAE, which was used to support homologation of the LM600 race cars with the ACO. It was also photographed for the official LM600 road car brochure. The same car was taken to Le Mans in 1996 when Cor Euser entered an LM600, co-driven by Tommy Erdos and Pascal Dro, and was kept in the paddock for most of the race. The car also appeared at several British GT meetings that year - hence the picture of it arriving at what I think must have been Thruxton, with Chris Marsh driving. This car went to Cor Euser when Eurotech purchased the rights to the Mantara and LM600, and explains the alternative registration above.

Jeremy Kearns had a second car for sale earlier this year, which I assume is the white one? I wasn't aware of any other road-going LM600s ever being produced.

[Thumper]

DodgeyRog said:

That makes 3, i saw the Blue one (2nd from top) at the factory back in 99, it was a customer order they thought about marketing as a rival to the TVR Speed 12, with a price tag of about £70-80k. If you look, it has the later style alloys that were fitted to the Mantis GT.

Sorry to disappoint you, but that picture is not genuine. It's the same image we used for the front cover of the brochure, but with the later wheel style Photoshopped into the wheelarches and the registration number removed. It didn't take long! If you look closely, and compare it with the shot of the white car, you'll notice that the wheels fit those massive arches just a little too neatly!

[Ratspants]

The LM600 has always been one of my favourites, a shame there were not more made

Ben

[brian coleman]

35 LM400 and LM500 were built between 1995 and 1998. powered by Rover V8 4 and 5 litre engines.
7 LM500 race cars were built with two cars sponsored by computercentre dominating.
4 LM600 race cars were built. An LM600 won the British GT Championship in 1995.
A Marcos Owners' Club member bought an LM600 last year and converted it to a road going car. Colour is Lambo orange and should appear in Classic Cars soon

[B1GRLM]

The Blue LM600 is the Homologation road car for the LM600 built so the LM could race at Le Mans. It ventured to many of the GT races in 1995/96 and is owned by Cor, but will not be back on the road due to the interior being used to build the white car. This was built by Cor as a Homolomogation LM600 EVO road car to get the LM600 Evo racing, but it was not allowed. This is 6" wider than the blue LM600 and is now back on the road in England as the only LM600 Evo road car in Lambo Orange.

These were the only Factory/Cor road car LM600s (so far.)

But there is going to be another LM600 on the roads soon.


So Blue car LM600, white car LM600 Evo.

[geeeman]

how difficult is it to convert lm400/500 (or mantis) into an Lm 600.
assuming the existing running gear would be kept to keep things simple, how difficult would this conversion be?
thanks

[cazzer]

Replace every body panel except for the doors, bootlid and roof.

And seriously alter the chassis.

Other than that...a doddle

[B1GRLM]

But remember all LM600s have the rear of the doors square cut and not curved so you had better find the right donor LM!

[Dr Ivel]

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Edited by Dr Ivel on Thursday 8th April 14:13