RA Vanguard

[Roger Dowding]

It's a real shame that the article as published does get it totally wrong in who rebuilt the car to what it is now. That was undertaken by Richard Anderson, not Mike Courtney. Mike rescued remains and assembled something that vaguely resembled the car.
Richard started almost from scratch, and did it how it was. He raced it a number of time with VCC in recent years.

Thanks Rhys I saw the car when with Mike - I only took photos of the engine [ silly boy ] .. It was around 1990 when Mike was living in Titirangi, and ran the Vegie Shop in Lynmall.







" t's a real shame that the article as published does get it totally wrong in who rebuilt the car to what it is now. "
Agree Rhys however now we do know !
These Myths do continue and I know I thought Mike did a rebuild not just putting it back together, at that time. so may have contributed to the myth.

Must have had my " Train-ing Wheels " on back then. as far as Archives and History goes. You learn something new every day.
[ A Hornby loco made in 1929 that was my fathers - " clockwork ' O ' gauge "- ]