Previously restored
My understanding is that no vehicles were returned from Europe after the war. I'm sure that the CL number and star, and possibly the re-body are the result of a previous, not too long ago, restoration. It would be interesting to look carefully, maybe lightly sand down the doors, to look for the original census number. Being a late '42 vehicle, the number would be the later type of xx-xxxx ( the first pair of numbers relating to the owning unit not the year) probably with an L above. The past owner would presumably know its more recent history.
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