Restore 403 or sacrifice for parts?

[Ashley James]

I've not long completed a total rebuild of my 400, which coincidentally is the same colour (well sort of!) as the car that the Duke of Richmond and Gordon used to open the Goodwood Circuit in 1948.

To commemorate this auspicious event (the 60th anniversary), my car is to open the meeting, doing a few parade laps with Lord March in it, starting the racing each day and spending the rest of its time in an enclosure set aside to display the previous Duke's cars.

The thought of four days, taking time off work and the misery that is getting in and out of these affairs, rather put me off attending. Therefore I've lent the car to Andrew Blow who's generously offered to do it. It was a wrench after so much work and expense, but it seems like an excellent way to dangle a very good example of a 400 under the noses of some of the World's top collectors and hopefully make them feel like buying and restoring one.

If anyone is going to the Goodwood Revival with a camera, I'd love some photos. It's a green (Cambridge Grey) 400 and was made in 1949


Ashley