Purvis was the name under which the Eureka sports car, designed by the Australian Alan Purvis, was built under licence in New Zealand. Purvis had acquired the rights to the car, originally Richard Oakes' and Phil Sayers' Nova, after seeing it in the United Kingdom in late 1972, and put it into production in Australia, renaming it Eureka after the Eureka Stockade and giving it a flag-shaped bonnet emblem. In…