try a CARFAX report for a detailed history of ownership, previous registrations, accidents if any, etc. My 1965 'S' type's first owner was also a famous artist: Eugenia (Gene) Baker, (1886-1984) a giant mural painter from North California. Her paintings are at the Oakland, San Francisco, and Monterey museums of art. The second owner was the man who sold it to her first, (he was her neighbor too) and then to me. He was one of the group of investors who put up money to import British cars to the West Coast after WW-2.