Just went back to my earliest (pre-Vercoe) records to check the number of Hawthorne's NZ BT21, and find I don't have one. I do however have it listed as a BT21C: this could be a later description, perhaps after an update (Hawhorne did wok at Brabhams after all, and could easily have brought home an update kit at some stage).
I always believed the car he raced in NZ was brand new, and not one he had raced in the UK. It was landed in November 1967 but there were problems with Customs and it did not race until Feb 1968
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