Noel purchased the car in 1967 when they lived in the UK and drove her around England and Scotland.

Josephine, as she is called, is a PVT and thinks she is a sports car so don't comment on her body.  She was rallied aggressively for 10 years in South Africa, winning many "Monte Carlo" type vintage car rallies and the odd club championship.  She could run at 70mph for hours at a time, stopping for hidden controls in seconds.  During the 1971 Rhodesian rally (in which she won 2 trophies) she dropped some weld splatter from a welded head onto her pistons which required a complete engine rebuild.  A few years later she had a re-paint and the front seats re-covered.  These days she has an OD to save her legs and is happy to mix it with her juniors or other pre-war cars.

The prior history of ownership and maintenance is fully recorded.