Vanguards VA26011 Team Hartwell Hillman Imp No 214 1:43 Orange & White.

This item and its box are in excellent condition throughout .

Ray Payne started his racing career at age 38. In his first season of racing, he won the 850cc class in the BARC (Osram GEC ?) Saloon Car Championship 1967. It cost him £300. He took nine first places, one second, had two shunts, and set nine lap records. In 1968, he won his class in the same championship, and in 1969, he was out in a one-litre Imp, which was prepared to the usual Ray Payne of Hartwell standard: immaculate.

His first job was with Hartwell, and he worked there for twenty years. He prepared competition cars, rally, and racing cars, first for George Hartwell, then for Alan Hartwell. Then he prepared them for himself...

For 20 years, Ray yearned to have a try at racing, but he could never justify himself asking the boss to be given the chance.

Early 1965, Alan Hartwell wanted a 1963 Imp tuned mildly to use in hillclimbs. He also used the former demonstration Imp in the six-hour relay race of 1965. When it came back at the end of that season, it just sat under a sheet in the workshop. Seemingly forgotten, except by Ray, who saw a way to realize his wish.

The BARC Saloon Car Championship of 1967 was won outright by Team Hartwell by Ray Payne in the 850 Imp. It took ten 1st and one 2nd. And 9 lap records were involved. In January of 1968, Hartwell advertised the coupon to the right.

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