The six photos below show the vehicle in 2008 when being restored by Phil.  The two images below show represent the original vehicle markings.

Previously Gary Trew   garytrew@compuserve.com until 2007.  The photo above was taken circa 2002.  From Andy Jackson:
"A little interesting additional info that I received on 1288: The student he mentions at the end was in Croydon in 1964 and he paid £200. The current location of 1288 is South Warwickshire. 
Hi Gary, Graham Gould rang he was interested in your Champ contacts and all the info. He was in the Air Force when Nato Officers from Old Sarum, studying airborne ops., would come to Netheravon to observe Champs being dropped by parachute from Beverley transport aircraft.

When we first had the Champ, I was driving up Bury Hill, overtaking in the rain, when for no reason the rear skidded. At Bracklesham I found one of the rear wheels was out of track. Playfords (then in Thornton Heath) who were expert in preparing Jaguars for racing, changed the complete rear hub. They thought it had received a side impact, maybe in a loading net.(The reason for its disposal?) However, Graham says it's quite possible this happened during a drop. The champs were lashed to a rectangular platform supported by a balloon which burst upon impact.

He did a course on the engines. He said ours was a B80 (perhaps he meant B40) which had the normal wet sump. The engine was completely water-proofed and had a moveable snorkel, so it could breathe under water up to the driver's neck. I mentioned I'd driven ours standing up. The B81 engine had a DRY sump and was fitted to the Saracen armoured car and fire engines which had to negotiate extremely rough terrain. They had a separate oil tank and oil pump to keep the oil flowing under any conditions. I bought the Champ (100 DBY) from a student, who was very attached to it. He'd bought it at auction but couldn't afford to run it. I'm taking the liberty of patching this to your contact Andy Jackson. "