I understand Jem Marsh died last night.
Travel safe Jem
Jem Marsh RIP
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Supersox
, Mar 03 2015 14:07
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marclaus
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Posted 03 March 2015 - 14:50
So sad news, one of the great characters of a great period, car-manufacturer, team-manager, racing-driver, RIP
Edited by marclaus, 03 March 2015 - 14:50.
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P.Dron
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Posted 03 March 2015 - 20:29
R.I.P.
He was a straight-talking, talented man. It never quite worked out for him, but it's a tough business building cars, especially if you want to make money out of it.
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Posted 03 March 2015 - 20:47
The Mantis - one of the most astonishing looking racing cars I can recall. Looked years ahead of its time, like it was from Thunderbirds.
RIP.
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Posted 04 March 2015 - 18:50
Very brief obituary piece about Jem on BBC West's 'Points West' tonight, including a clip from a 1995 interview. About 20 minutes in, if anyone wants to see it when it's on iPlayer.
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Posted 04 March 2015 - 23:28
Thank you for that , I got conned into watching "the other side" so missed it first time around....
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Posted 05 March 2015 - 04:37
Sad to hear. In the eighties I was restoring a Marcos for racing and phoned the factory for information and to order parts. After a long discussion with the very knowledgeable person who answered the phone I asked if he was Jem Marsh-"yes" he said " I can't get anyone else in here to answer the phone!"
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Posted 05 March 2015 - 23:10
As a schoolboy, in 1965, I wrote to Marcos asking for a brochure, mentioning my age and unlikeliness of being any kind of prospective customer for a while. By return I received all the available publicity info and a two-page hand-written letter from the boss.
Nuff said.
R.I.P.
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Posted 09 March 2015 - 06:55
My user name says it all - but what a sad first post.
RiP indeed Jem. You created cars that even now, 50 years after the 1964 debut of the classic shape, people still admire and yet still don't recognise. At least those of us with long legs knew we'd fit.
Twenty-four years of Marcos ownership (and racing) and still a thrill to drive. What a legacy.
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Supersox
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Posted 20 March 2015 - 18:04
Just came back from Jem's memorial service, Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon sure needs a sound engineer, especially for us guys who have spent the last fifty years around unsilenced engines.
Major turn out to see the old boy off.
I sat underneath the memorial on the south wall to the eponymous Colonel Shrapnel -curiously apt perhaps......
Edited by Supersox, 20 March 2015 - 18:04.
