Nick Green, a vehicle and aeronautical design engineer, spent nine months developing his first car around MGB parts, and the NG TA appeared in Motor Sport in October 1979. Styled in homage to the Aston Martin International of the 1930s, it was an immediate success. Green then designed the car he really wanted to own, the TC, which appeared in V8 form in 1981.
In 1983 customer demand for a more practical NG brought the 2+2 TD, and later that year it gained elegant flowing wings to become the TF, which was to be the best-selling NG by some margin. With NG a runaway success, Green returned to Southampton University for postgraduate study and handed the business to Peter Fellowes, an NG owner who had formed the TA Motor Company in Milton Keynes. Production later moved to Rotherham under the banner of Pastiche Cars, with designs for MG, Marina or Ford Sierra parts.
After a brief spell with GTM, the marque was bought in 1994 by engineer John Hoyle of Epsom, who developed the TF, TD and TC for the new Single Vehicle Approval rules of 1998. He retired in 2000 and sold NG to the Imex Group of New Milton, where it had all begun, and from 2002 NGs were made by Nigel Brooks’s Findhorn Cars, which the owners’ club lists as making them until 2021.
