Very sad news indeed.
As others have said Mark was very private and had we not seen him in August we would not have known there was anything wrong.
We were fortunate to be able to visit him recently and it was good to simply sit and chat about the car and the mini adventures he had had with it along the way.
Mark's history with LB goes right back to the early days & he was one of the first batch of customers to commit to an LB & ended up taking ownership of chassis number 9.
Mark managed to do quite a lot with his car over the 6 years it has been on the road and completed trips to LeMans, Venice & the BOIR event in Castell'Arquato.
His car was instrumental in helping Zenith with their pop up shop in Harrods & on the back of this he was gifted a tour of the Zenith factory along with a photo shoot outside. He subsequently ended up having lunch with Erik Comas on the square in Biella.
On the back of the above he also travelled to Belgium in his car to follow/support Erik Comas during the Belgium leg of the historic FIA rally championship in Ypres.
Back in the UK he managed to do track days at Goodwood & took part in a number of the northern run out weekends arranged by members on here.
Mark went from simply being a customer to being a friend to us as well. We ended up meeting quite a few times socially over the years whether it be at shows, locally to us or locally to him & we even crossed paths with him in Venice whilst on respective European road trips.
A more genuine person you couldn't wish to meet & our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.
Below are few pics of the man & his car whilst on his adventures.
Rest in Peace Mark.
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