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Bryan
Vercoe never struck me as terribly reliable, especially when Allen and I looked at F5000 cars. I haven't looked at the 1967/8 races yet, and don't know what Hawthorne drove in UK in 67, but in 68 in UK he uses a BT21B which is then sold to Ed Reeves for the 69 British season. He then takes what my notes record as 'the last one built' of the BT21Cs - so BT21C-19?. F1R has this chassis no in its Tasman book [don't know how reliable that is!] and it staying downunder with Cary Taylor in 1970.
What might confuse Vercoe is that the BT21B which Hawthorne buys in the UK to race F3 in 69 is ex Graham Coaker. [AS 6.6.69 p. 2] But this is NOT, as far as I can tell, BT21-19, which is also raced by Coaker in 69 [when it belongs to Mike Stow], and which has been updated by then to B spec. Rather it is a genuine 21B. In Sept 69 it goes to David Martell [AS 25.9.69 p. 24]
I would have to have a good look at MN and AS late 67 to start getting further on this at this end. My guess however, is that Vercoe took 21C-19 and extrapolated back that this had always been Hawthorne's car and that he'd just upgraded it. He actually gets through at least four Brabhams between late 67 and Sept 69.
Chris
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