Design and Art Australia Online

Purvis began his career as an art director for print and advertising firms after technical college training in Melbourne. In the 1970s, he became interested in design so-called kit motorcars with bodies bolted onto an existing chassis. He debuted the "Nova" fibreglass kit car in 1974, later producing the "Eureka" in a Dandenong, Victoria factory. He ceased "Eureka" production in 1989.