What a cool day. I took some old receipts and using some detective work thought I located a old owner, I wrote him a letter and he called me today!
He and his brother owned it in the early 80's and did all the metal work, sold it off and bought it back a few years later. He lives about 20 minutes from me and told me he has pictures and such of it winning car shows, if I would have gotten to him a year ago he had a trophy that wouldnt fit in the back seat from one win! threw it out though. Also said he had taken it to the local drag strip and posted some low 13's in its hayday. unfortunately the owner between us really tore it up and wore it out.
he also said alot of the inconsisties in the car came from the guy before him who bought old muscle cars when they were 10-12 years old and tore them apart and added/changed what ever cool go parts were available in the day, hack artist at his best i guess
this guy had the engine running right and perfect from head to toe. We are meeting up and gonna chat about it soon, he said he'd like to keep some memorys of it but will give me some of the 8x10 professional pictures taken when it won a car show!