Written by Angus Frazer for JBR Capital

Entrepreneur and petrolhead Andrew Barnes talks us by way of his eclectic automotive assortment and explains why it makes sound enterprise sense to borrow funding from JBR Capital even when you should buy outright.

Barnes, who splits his time between his winery on Waiheke Island off the coast of Auckland and his nation home close to Tilford in Surrey, has a long time of expertise within the monetary business. He based New Zealand’s largest company trustee firm, Perpetual Guardian, specialising in estates, charitable trusts, charitable foundations, wills, and supervising capital markets. Having just lately offered the supervisory a part of the enterprise, Barnes now focuses on advising non-public purchasers and operating the winery in New Zealand and a expertise firm within the UK.

Financially astute to the best potential degree, Barnes is an advocate of funding a few of his vehicles by way of JBR Capital, and later we’ll hear him clarify his logic for doing so. However first, let’s discover out extra about among the vehicles in his assortment.

“My son tells me that I’m a number of generations outdated”, admits Barnes, “however I’ve at all times loved basic vehicles. I hate the trendy vehicles that beep and shout at me and second-guess the whole lot that I wish to do once I’m driving”.

Nonetheless, don’t mistake the person’s love of machines made a few years in the past for any type of automotive snobbery. Nothing might be farther from the reality, for Barnes’s core automotive perception might be summed up as: ‘higher an evocation for driving arduous on the street than an unique that by no means strikes from an air-conditioned storage’.

“4 of my vehicles are evocations”, explains Barnes. “The MG K3 reproduction is constructed on an MG KN chassis, so it’s interval in that respect, as is the Jaguar C-Sort on an XK 140 chassis and the Petersen 4.5-litre Blower, which is on a 1935 chassis. The Bentley Blue Practice is constructed on a 1951 R Sort Chassis, versus an unique

Nonetheless, don’t mistake the person’s love of machines made a few years in the past for any type of automotive snobbery. Nothing might be farther from the reality, for Barnes’s core automotive perception might be summed up as: ‘higher an evocation for driving arduous on the street than an unique that by no means strikes from an air-conditioned storage’.

“4 of my vehicles are evocations”, explains Barnes. “The MG K3 reproduction is constructed on an MG
KN chassis, so it’s interval in that respect, as is the Jaguar C-Sort on an XK 140 chassis and the Petersen 4.5-litre Blower, which is on a 1935 chassis. The Bentley Blue Practice is constructed on a 1951 R Sort Chassis, versus an unique Thirties chassis.

“I may have an unique Jaguar C-Sort. However do I wish to spend £5 million on a automotive? And would I really drive it? Or would I’ve it primarily as a museum piece? One factor I do know is I’m not desirous about museum items; I like driving vehicles. I’m happier having a pile of various vehicles for various days and completely different moods, whereas if I had one unique Jaguar C-Sort, then I wouldn’t have the ability to afford anything”.

Barnes’s collected assortment is undoubtedly an eclectic one which admittedly makes a
few concessions to modernity. Together with the aforementioned evocations, it contains an Aston Martin Vanquish, an Aston Martin Rapide, an Austin Healey 3000 MkII, an MG J2, a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II Drophead, a Morgan 3 Wheeler, an Alpine A110 and a Land Rover Defender. Oh, there’s additionally rally-prepared 1941 Chevrolet Coupe during which he did the 2019 Peking to Paris. And there’s an Aston Martin DB9 Volante, an MGF and a few Mini Cooper Convertibles for tootling round Waiheke in.

“There are some good roads on the South Island in New Zealand, however loads of them are filth, which is okay for the rally automotive, however not nice for traditional vehicles on the whole”, explains Barnes. “On prime of that, you don’t have occasions just like the Goodwood Revival and the Concours de Magnificence at Hampton Courtroom in NZ, which is why I hold the vast majority of the vehicles within the UK”, explains Barnes. “My companion Charlotte and I often take the Blower and the Blue Practice all the way down to Goodwood with a celebration of associates for the Revival”.

Whereas Barnes likes to show again the clock to the romance of an earlier age for his motoring adventures, his strategy to financing them is completely up to date. Regardless of being within the lucky place to just about have the ability to purchase any automotive he needs by buying it outright, Barnes has chosen to finance a number of of his vehicles by way of JBR Capital.

“I’ve financed the Blue Practice, the Rolls Royce Blower and the K3. Financing with the present rates of interest is smart. It offers me an opportunity to unfold a little bit of the capital that I’m deploying in vehicles”, explains Barnes. “Utilizing finance intelligently lets me leverage capital and helps me create a extra balanced portfolio of belongings and enterprise pursuits. Buying a portion of a automotive by way of finance offers me the liberty to order funds and purchase one thing else if it comes up”.

Because of his background throughout the finance sector, Barnes can recognise organisations which are good at doing what they do, which are versatile and in a position to present the type of service that he wants. And those who aren’t.

I simply researched who was on the market out there. My affairs are barely advanced dwelling
within the UK and NZ. Standard funders usually can’t get their heads round advanced affairs,
however in equity to the crew at JBR Capital, they shortly acquired their heads round it. Now, when I’m seeking to purchase one other car, they’re swift to present me the choice I want. You want to have the ability to have the boldness that whenever you’re placing a proposal down on a automotive, you’re going to have the ability to see it by way of”.

Whereas there’ll at all times be one other automotive to purchase, Barnes admits he’s conflicted over whether or not he’ll dump any of his current assortment.

“I used to personal a Rolls Royce Ghost once I lived in Australia, which I want I’d by no means offered. Each time I promote a basic automotive, I remorse it”.

Nonetheless, there may be one automotive that Barnes simply would possibly let go of — the MG K3 reproduction. “It was constructed as a racing automotive, and it scares the dwelling daylights out of me each time I drive it. It’s like a rocket on wheels. So possibly that one may go. And because the late nice Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer used to say, ‘By no means fall in love with an asset!’”