The Roaring Season

I dont think I have ever come across a car
with so much in common with many other makes

Does any one know what this is
I do know what it is myself. Markson

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Does any one know what this is
I do know what it is myself. Markson

Too easy - Torana GTR-X. PS: I'm an aussie on hols in NZ at present and having a great time. Cheers

Hi Libules Being an Aussie it was to easy for you ,hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday ,been here 54 years myself on holiday.Markson

Just another common structural similarity that the Markson and Bolwell have in common
Another common feature that goes towards reinforcing my assumpsion that this car started off as a Bolwell kit

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Just another common structural similarity that the Markson and Bolwell have in common
Another common feature that goes towards reinforcing my assumpsion that this car started off as a Bolwell kit

Note the U section reinforcing running along the transmission tunnel


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Hopefully I will be turning this


Into this



It's great what a coat of paint and a set of wire wheels will make .Markson

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It is with great reluctance and a great deal of sadness
due to my ill health,OLD age, and to keep my wife happy,that I am seeking expressions of interest
to the purchase of this very interesting project car,that I consider to be a very unique part of both NZ & Australian motoring history, and it needs to go,to a good home. PM me for more details. Markson



SOLD


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Markson

Maybe I should have this add in the for sale section Markson

After all this time of my pursuit in trying to find info on the Markson,it goes to show that sometimes, time and persistance pays off ,as last night I was contacted by one of the past owner's of the Markson some 40 odd years ago.with an interest in purchasing the Markson off me.This could turn out to be interesting .Markson
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Kerry Hendry and Markson, together again after 40 odd years

Old redgo papers

Back in the hands of an old owner after 40 odd year SOLD[color="#FF0000"][/color]

Top picture is Markson front
The bottom 2 photos are Bolwels ???

Totality back in the hands of the owner of some 40 odd years ago

Markson is off into the fog and mist to the start of a new beginning
Who know,s what may return ???

It was with a great deal of sadness but also one of pleasure that I had to say good-bye this morning to the Markson
The sadness coming from the fact that I was saying good-bye inside to something, that over the last 5 odd years had given me a great deal of pleasure and fun.

The pleasure coming from knowing that the Markson was going back to someone who had owned it 40 odd years ago, and I believe had spent a great deal of his past 40 odd years, looking for something that he had owned at the age of 16, but his Dad had sold it from under his Bum,also in knowing deep down that for reason,s due to the deterioration of my ill health, also,my 76 odd years of age, and to keep my little lady happy as well, and knowing that I was never ever going to do the justice to the Markson that it deserved, and it was now in the hands of someone who shared the same passion and enthusiasm as I have had with the Markson. over the last 5 0dd years.

It was a very uncanny feelling watching it disappear 50 meters down the road into the obscurity of the fog and mist,and it was a bit like the curtains closing at the end of a great concert,and I felt a great deal of vindcation ,of my relentless dogged attempts over the last 5 odd years of being a member on the roaring season forum, trying to find out the real history of the Markson.

I did find it a little strange being on here asking what some might have considered to be silly questions and putting forward my assumptions of what I felt what the Markson was, and where it had come from,and found it very strange being in the cyber company of many people who seemingly know a awful lot about every thing that every one else knows about, but I was never able to find out anything from any one about something, no body new anything about.

As the Markson disapeared into the fog,a little flash came back to me, of over the last 50 odd years, as to how many many times I had the same feeling watching the many many cars that I had owned here in NZ over the last 50 odd years,that had in some instances had moved on and were now very well know cars and some of them were just like the Markson
A car that no one new anything about or new its of its existence
I just wonder what the curtain call will bring,in the future, with the return of the Markson

Markson