previous owner Richard anderson comments on Goodwood achievement

I had the privilege of joining Ian Jones and his team for the running of the RA Vanguard at the recent Goodwood Trophy race. I must admit to a personal bias regarding this remarkable car which, when first developed by Hec Green and Jack Brewer in the early 1950s, was a revolutionary departure from normal race car design. All the more so, since it was designed and built on a shoestring budget, in a tiny workshop in New Zealand, by a couple of clever enthusiasts who just wanted to go racing.

​Two blokes who, even in New Zealand, never really received the credit that the car should have earned them. Despite showing early promise its real potential was never fully developed in period, due to business and other commitments. Goodwood Trophy 2025 was to show signs of the cars true potential. ​

​Following a morale destroying failure in qualifying and a late night engine rebuild, the car started the race from the back of the field, of some of the periods most valuable and successful racing cars from the worlds leading manufacturers.

​To finish well up the field depicts the beginning of much more to come, and will hopefully start to shine a spotlight, both, on the talent and ingenuity of its two builders, Hec Green and Jack Brewer, and on the sympathetic restoration undertaken by Ian and his team.