Creating the Sir Vival prototype was a 10-year mission of Walter Jerome, a graduate of Northeastern University's College of Engineering.
To market the Sir Vival Jerome created the Hollow Boring Corporation of Worcester and spent many years looking for purchasers and financing.
Despite the press and the showings at high-profile venues, Jerome never garnered the funding needed to manufacture another Sir Vival, and so the prototype remains the only version ever produced.
After Jerome's death in the early 1970s, the Moore family, owner of Bellingham Auto Sales which provided the original Hudson, took possession and stored it there.
With that business shutting down, current owner Ed Moore sold the car in 2022 to Lane Motor Museum which plans to restore it.