Placed on a self-loading truck, its first destination was Bulange Mengo where Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga received it officially before it was tucked away at the Mengo Palace. Tourism ministers Tom Butime and Godfrey Kiwanda did the handover ceremony. Prince David Kintu Wasajja who was heavily involved in pushing for its return to the kingdom was at hand to receive it from the Uganda Museum. The president informed cabinet and they approved its release. The kingdom was desirous to have it back and at the start of 2020, Kabaka Mutebi wrote to President Yoweri Museveni informing him that the kingdom would prefer to have the car back. However, its engine and front windscreen, grill and headlights were all intact. It was what one could describe as scrap metal. The remaining one was kept at State House for years before it was sent to the Uganda Museum. Two of these vehicles are untraceable at the moment one of which is said to be somewhere in Cape Town in South Africa. Muteesa was the president of Uganda at the time.
Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi was one of those few children in the country that used to enjoy a car with an automatic gearbox and power windows, in the 1960s. In the years leading to the 1966 attack on his palace, Muteesa had started traveling in a state-of-the-art Rolls Royce Phantom V Cloud, one of the three luxurious limousines as part of his fleet.
Ssekabaka Edward Muteesa II was known to be close to his children and regularly traveled with them.
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