Wow, that is one hell of a thread! I have it bookmarked and I'm going to go through it in the next few days, almost a decade of conversations...lol

The backdoor support is something that I have found was prevalent during the time. I spoke with a gentleman who owns the 1968 RA-II car that was used by the same race team from Biener and he said they were able to head on out to Detroit and load up a pickup truck full of new parts and use them on the race cars. I'm imagining that some of them might have been on this car but have yet to find somebody who was actually with the car at the time. The previous owner of the 1968 mentioned was in Vietnam when they got the 1969 and only saw it for a few months in the very beginning.

My dad's friend who I got the 1969 from has had it since the mid 1970s and it was bought from a different person who sold him all of his racing parts with the car. It was The American Indian at that point and was disassembled shortly after and then sat until I received it.

I'm still hunting for history on it though and while it won't be a drag car again, I do plan on documenting it's racing pedigree. Everything I plan on doing to it will be reversible so if I ever decide to bring it back to it's racing history I can. I wish there were more parts with the car when I got it, because that would probably steer me into a different direction of the build but it's just a shell right now. The closest drag strip is also 3 hours away from me so a driver is a more attractive build direction.