Desmond 'Dizzy' Addicott acquired a damaged Mini Van and determined make a streamlined racing car out of the ingredients. The longer wheelbase of the Van platform would give better handling to his Mini DART ('Dizzy addicott Racing Team'). Dizzy gave his car a Kamm Tail and wind tunnel tested it to a theoretical 170mph, backed up by Jem Marsh actually recording 146mph on the Mulsanne straight. Exhibited at the 1964 Racing Car Show, a contract was placed with Falcon to produce fibreglass bodies, but after 8 shells were produced Dizzy and Jem Marsh disagreed. Jem Marsh took 4 of the shells away and created the Mini Marcos from these, whilst Jeremy Delmar-Morgan bought the remaining 4 shells from Dizzy and started the very similar MiniJem. Jem Marsh (the 'Mar' within 'Marcos', the 'cos' being Frank Costin) engaged Brian Moulton and Malcolm Newell to turn the DART into the Mini Marcos, and in September 1965 the prototype Mini Marcos won its first outing at Castle Combe. The 1966 Racing Car Show saw the launch of the Mini Marcos, and in the same year a French-owned Mini Marcos finished 15th at Le Mans, the only British-made car to finish that race. Jem Marsh entered, but did not finish, the 1967 Le Mans race and recorded 146mph on the Mulsanne straight. In 1967 a revised Mini Marcos was launched as the MkII with altered nose and wheel arches, and a MkIII car was brought out with an opening rear hatch. In 1971 Marcos collapsed and was bought out by Rob Walker's Corsley Garages, who introduced the longer and higher MkIV. Mini Marcos production transferred to D & H Fibreglass Techniques in Oldham in 1975 with further revisions and produced this until 1989. At that time the moulds and rights to the Mini Marcos reverted back to Jem Marsh who had regained control of Marcos cars, and in 1991 a new Mini Marcos MkV was launched, with fully built copies being sold direct to Japan, and production continued until 1995. The main Marcos company again went into liquidation, and the Mini Marcos moulds went to Rory McMath who launched the Mini Marcos MkVI and MkVI GT under the 'Marcos Heritage' brand in 2005.