My father, John Spill, owned this car briefly from around 1946 to 1947 (before trading it in on a 4.5 GU 8136 which is now owned in Western Australia).

The 3 litre was recorded as his on Page 21 of a September 1946 BDC magazine.

He may have removed the body as I did have (pre computer problems) an amusing email from a navy chum of his (later to become Admiral Lee) about a trip they did in the car without bodywork and of the passenger trying not to rest his arm on the exhaust pipe that went close past the passenger seat. If I find more info I'll share it.

I did not come on the scene until 1951 and discovered the BDC magazines at my father's farm a year or two back (he passed away in 2007 and sold his 4.5 in 1985 to Owen Bourke of Sydney).